Hardiman the fiddler, jig

During the month of July in 1943 Séamus Ennis made regular visits to Maínis to Dudley an Phortaigh [Dudley of the Bog] [Darach Ó Clochartaigh] Cloherty whom he called ‘the man with the tunes’ noting that Dudley had ‘old tunes that he inherited from his father’s lilting and from travelling musicians long ago’. Séamus Ennis transcribed a good number of pieces from Dudley including this slip jig. A variant of Hardiman the Fiddler, it can be found in O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland (No. 412) and in The Dance Music of Willie Clancy (No. 127). A version of this slip jig was published in Ceol Rince na hÉireann 4 ( No. 39) with the title The Swaggering Jig although it is pointed out in the notes that this is a different tune to the slip jig of the same title found in O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland. (No. 413).