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The Boyd Manuscripts
David Boyd was born in 1884 and was a farmer at Ballyalton, a townland a few miles north of Comber and close to Scrabo Hill and Tower.
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Reel - The Beauty of the Kerrs
Reel - The Black Haired Lass (HD ref RQ205)
Reel - Kitty over the Bridge
David Boyd was born in 1884 and was a farmer at Ballyalton, a townland a few miles north of Comber and close to Scrabo Tower.
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Reel - Untitled Reel
Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Mary Morrison (8 + 1.5 bars) (HD ref JS83)
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Reel - McCutcheon's Reel
Jig - Untitled Jig (4 + 8 + 3 bars)
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Reel - Queen's Reel (HD ref ST354)
Jig/Quadrille Tune - Untitled Jig (5.5 bars)
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Reel - The Flogging Reel
Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Untitled Jig (3 bars)
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Reel - Untitled Reel
Reel - The Peeler's Cap (8 + 6 bars) (HD ref WMcC99)
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Jig - The Trip to the Cottage (HD ref RQ202)
Reel - Touch it if you dare (HD ref RQ206)
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Jig - The Protestant Boys (HD ref RQ203)
Reel - Miss McCloud's Reel (HD ref JW319)
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Reel - The Flowers of Edinburgh (HD ref JW323)
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Reel - Through the Broom (HD ref RQ206)
Jig - Norah Crena
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Jig - The Siege of Carrick generally known as Haste to the Wedding (HD ref JW299)
Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Kenmure's up an awa (1st part), better known in East Down as Nane o' yer Winkin at Me Auld Man (HD ref WMcCa233)
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Jig - The Irish Washerwoman
Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Kenmure's up an awa (2nd part) (HD ref WMcCa233)
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Jig - The Laird of Cockpen (HD ref JW310)
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Jig - Blue Bonnets over the Border (HD ref WMcC94)
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Jig - Dumfries House (better known in Ulster as the Maho Snaps)
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Jig - Thurot's Defeat, better known around Down as the Siege of Carrick, and generally known elsewhere as Haste to the Wedding (HD ref JW299)
Hornpipe - The West Hornpipe
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Jig - Untitled Jig (4 bars)
Jig/Quadrille Tune 6/8 - A Quadrille generally titled The Kinnegad Slashers (HD ref JW295)
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Jig - Jackson's Morning Brush (HD ref JW292)
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Jig - Irish Washerwoman
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Quadrille Tune 6/8 - A Quadrille generally known as The White House Lass (HD ref JS84)
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Quadrille Tune 6/8 - The Favourite Quadrille, better known in East Down as The Muses (HD ref JS84)
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Jig - Croppies Lie Down
Jig - Jackson's Trip to Newry better known in East Down as Jackson's Trip (HD ref JS82)
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Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Wha'll be King but Charlie (HD ref WS128)
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Jig - Garryowen
Jig - Wm. McDonald
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Jig - Captain Mulligan
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Jig - Untitled Jig
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Quadrille 6/8 - Untitled Quadrille Tune
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Jig - Untitled Jig
Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Untitled tune for the 5th figure Quadrilles (Jimmy Ward's No 5 HD ref JW313)
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Slip Jig - Untitled Slip Jig
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Hornpipe - Neilson's Hornpipe
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Hornpipe - Wellington's Hornpipe
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Hornpipe - The Liverpool Hornpipe
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Hornpipe - The Cork Hornpipe
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Hornpipe - The Cuckoo's Nest (HD ref JD147)
Figure Dance - The Princess Royal (HD ref WMcC97)
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Hornpipe - Untitled Hornpipe generally titled Lochleven Castle (HD ref JD146)
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Hornpipe - The Cuckoo's Nest (HD ref JD147)
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Quadrille Tune 2/4 - The Girl I left behind me (HD ref WS125)
Jig - The Campbells are coming (8 + 1 bars) (HD ref JW294)
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Quadrille Tune 2/4 - Old Molly Doodle will you not come out (HD ref WS124)
Jig - The Campbells are coming (7 bars) (HD ref JW294)
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Quadrille Tune 2/4 - My Love is but a Lassie yet (HD ref WS121)
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Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Brian O'Neill (2nd part) (HD ref WMcC96) a version of Paddy's Return
Jig - Free and Accepted Wife
Quadrille Tune 2/4 - The Girl I left behind Me (HD ref WS125)
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Polka - The German Polka
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March - The Baffs March
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Waltz - Title indecipherable (the melody is identical to a common Mazurka around Central and East County Down titled The Spanish Mazurka) (HD ref WS115)
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Waltz - The Fives Waltz
Jig - Rory O'Moor
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Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Untitled (1 part only)
Country Dance - The New Triumph
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