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Ceol na hÉireann / Irish Music, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 32

Ceol na hÉireann / Irish Music, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 32
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Na Píobairí Uilleann
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Chairman, NPU
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Ceol na hÉireann / Irish Music
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1
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54Ceol na hEireann Irish Music55Indeed hes not a vely good boy in public life sofar.But now hes said hes sorry and they let himcome back in,And with the whip back in his hand sure hell doit all again.The Christmas is upon us now, twill be thedarkestyet,With butter selling below cost and the turkeydying in debt.Theyll tell you that thefood you eat will makeyoufat and heavy,And the milkyou drink is bound to be the victimof a levy.But let them say whateer they will the bestthings still arefree,They cant stop mefrom lovingyou andyoufrom loving me.They cannot stop the lovelyf lowers and treesand grassfrom growing,Nor the chan,ging of the oceans tide, or the graceof Godfrom flowing.With their cut-down here and shut-down there,were sick of this recession.The only thing wegetfrom it is ulcers anddepression.And now that we are moving off the last thingwere to sayIs, God be with you one and all until your dyingday.The copyright of these songs belongs to their authors. They are each happyto see anyone who wishes to sing them for amusement at social gatherings.However anyone interested in performing them professionally, or recording orotherwise reproducing them should first obtain permission and terms. Enquiriesmay be made through Na Piobairi Uilleann.Teriy MoylanFrancis ONeill and The FoxChase: A tale of two TouheysFew pieces of pipe-music are better known than The Fox Chase, or The FoxHunt, the descriptive piece that mimics the various stages of a fox-hunt. TheTipperary piper, Edmund Keating Hyland (1780-1845) is credited with devel-oping this piece from the well-known song An Maidirin Ruadh.l If he did, hemust have been quite precocious, since the piece was published by OFarrell inhis Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes in the first decade of thenineteenth century. 2It was not, however, the OFarrell version that was to prove to be thedominant one, but that published by Francis ONeill in 1903. All pipers whoplay The Fox Chase, with rare exceptions, play, to a greater or lesser extent, theONeill version. Among the exceptions were Felix Doran and Samus Ennis.The version Ennis played appears to have been egregious 4 - though it does bearsome resemblance to that published by Francis Roche. Felix Dorans versioncomprised little more than a truncated Maidirin Ruadh and a hOst of animalimitations. 6ONeill wrote in 1910 that, like the set-dance The Garden of the Daisies,The Fox Chase ultimately derived from the renowned Munster piper DickStephenson (c1840-97) - though the immediate source was the famous Irish-American piper Patsy Touhey (1865-1923) :Another favourite, well known by name as the Fox Chase, wasobtained from the same source [ Touhey], and although I have sinceheard played and also found among the Hudson manuscripts otherversions of it, none equals Stephensons setting, which fills fifteen staffs.Two years later, however, ONeill corrected this account: 8The fourth and final example of The Fox Chase is that which appears inONeills Music of Ireland published in 1903. Although we had been ledto believe that the setting was that played by the great Munster piper,Stephenson, it turns out that Patsy Touhey obtained it from John L.
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1
page Number
32
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[Various]
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1993-01-01T00:00:00
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Ceol na hÉireann / Irish Music, Volume 1, Issue 1

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