Some musicians refer to this jig as ‘Up Sligo’. After I introduced it as such while sharing a platform with fiddler John Kelly, he turned and eyed me with fierce scorn. “Never let me hear you calling that little jig by that hound of a name again,” he shouted, adding that ‘The Rose of Lough Gill’ is its proper name. I have never failed to call it anything else since that night when we played it with the Castle Céilí Band at a reunion in Slattery’s pub in Dublin. Lough Gill is in Co. Sligo.

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