S5E30 Fitzmaurice's Spooky Gold Ring with Tune from Blackie O'Connell

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Tunes:
William McGibbon: Halloween
Walsh: Gold Ring
Nixon: Gold Ring
William Vickers: Gold Ring
John Rook: Gold Ring Paddy
Fitzmaurice: The Tore Retreat, Kick the World Before You, Fitzmaurice’s Hornpipe,
David Young: Kick The World Before You
Killoran: The Gold Ring Goodman: Five Pound Jig
Seamus Ennis: The Gold Ring
O’Farrell: Lasses of Limerick
Fitzmaurice: Mrs. Garden Campbell’s Jig
Edward Bunting: Pharoh Or the War March
Grier: The Golden Ring
Patsy Touhey: The Gold Ring
O’Neill: The Gold Ring
Blackie O’Connell and Siobhán Peoples: The Gold Ring & The Dawn Chorus

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Halloween:

Here is a link to the Irish Halloween Customs:
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5170144/5169430

William McGibbon’s Halloween:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105870131

John Gregorson Campbell’s Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Witchcraft_Second_Sight_in_the_Highlands/shnXAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR5&printsec=frontcover

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English Gold Ring

1750s: Gold Ring From Walsh’s Country Dances: (I may have said Caledonia..but it is just Country Dances not the Caledonian collection.)
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248435

1778: Gold Ring, From Nixon:
http://www.framinghamhistory.org/framinghamhistory/Default/exhibit4/e40078b.htm

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Borders Gold Ring:

The Gold Ring: From Vicker’s Manuscript:
http://www.farnearchive.com/farneimages/jpgs/R0312400.jpg

The Gold Ring: From Rook Manuscript
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/rook/rook_pages/095.htm

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Fitzmaurice Vol IV Playthrough:

1807: The Tore’s Retreat From Fitzmaurice:
https://books.google.com/books?id=vq4Fb5TyTK4C&newbks=0&pg=PP15#v=onepage&q&f=false

1807: Kick the World Before you, From Fitzmaurice:
https://books.google.com/books?id=vq4Fb5TyTK4C&newbks=0&pg=PP15#v=onepage&q&f=false

1734: Kick The World Before you, From David Young:
David Young Wrote these settings for the Duke of Perth at Drummond Castle in 1734, I have used the copies available from Ross’s Music Page, all the tunes in this episode come from the first of two PDFs on Ross’s Music Page:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/music/index.html
The actual PDF download is the below link:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/manuscripts/drummond1.pdf

1807: Fitzmaurice’s Hornpipe into Walsh’s Setting for the Gold Ring:
https://books.google.com/books?id=vq4Fb5TyTK4C&newbks=0&pg=PP15#v=onepage&q&f=false
Walsh’s Gold Ring:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/90248435

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Another Not That Gold Ring for Fiddle

The Gold Ring, Haste to the Wedding: by Paddy Killoran from 1937
https://archive.org/details/PaddyKilloranTheGoldRingHasteToTheWedding
I found the link to the clip and the setting on The Session.org, couldn’t find it anywhere else:
https://thesession.org/tunes/1351

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The Gold Ring

The Gold Ring and Story from Seamus Ennis can be seen on Traditional Tune Archive:
https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Gold_Ring_(1)_(The)

1806: Lasses of Limerick: By O’Farrell Volume 2:
https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/87781298

1807: Miss Garden Campbell’s Jig From Fitzmaurice:
https://books.google.com/books?id=vq4Fb5TyTK4C&newbks=0&pg=PP14#v=onepage&q&f=false

1840: The Pharoh or War March From Bunting:
https://archive.org/details/ancientmusicofir00bunt/page/105/mode/1up
1860s: The Five Pound Jig (From Goodman)
http://goodman.itma.ie/volume-one#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=37&z=-446.493%2C1093.6654%2C11490.7461%2C4135.8025

1883: The Gold Ring (Grier)
http://grier.itma.ie/book-three#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=24&z=-322.0142%2C1186.8097%2C3333.0449%2C1290.4289

Patsy Touhey Playing The Gold Ring:
http://epu.ucc.ie/henebry/tune/the-gold-ring/
Check Out Nick Whitmer’s Excellent Website and Archive of Information on Pat Touhey:
http://www.whitmerpipes.com/touhey_archive.html

Also Check out the Great Event Coming up next April:
 
https://www.patsytouheyweekend.com/

1903: The Golden Ring (O’Neill’s)
http://www.oldmusicproject.com/subpage/Onj2.html
O’Neill attributes this setting to “Ennis” I’ve seen it assumed to be Tom Ennis, but based on date I think it was probably his father.
You can check out Whitmer’s additional information on these pipers:
http://livesofthepipers.com/index.htm

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Thanks to Blackie O’Connell and Siobhán Peoples Playing The Gold Ring and The Dawn Chorus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfPwUy5VQcs
You can buy several excellent Recordings of Blackie on Bandcamp:
https://blackieoconnellcyrilodonoghue.bandcamp.com/
and Siobhán Peoples as well:
https://siobhanpeoples.bandcamp.com/releases

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GHB Setting for The Gold Ring:
https://www.celticscores.com/file/399_The_Gold_Ring.gif

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