S5E30 Fitzmaurice's Spooky Gold Ring with Tune from Blackie O'Connell
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 +X+X+X+X+X+ 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 +X+X+X+ 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 +X+X+X+ 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 +X+X+X+X+ 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 +X+X+X+ 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 +X+X+X+ 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 +X+ 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 +X+ GHB Setting for The Gold Ring: https://www.celticscores.com/file/399_The_Gold_Ring.gif FINSupport Wetootwaag's Bagpipe and History Podcast