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Map of Central Down (South) The McElroys of Legananny & Drumnaquoile John Burns of Clanvaraghan Pat Murnin & the Drin Fiddle Club The Dornans of Drumnakelly & Drumaroad Kevin Casement, Sandy McNerlin, Johnny McKay, Willie McCartan & the Kanes of Clanawhillan Michael & Sean Rodgers The Herons of Herons Road, Joe Cinnamond, Arthur Annett, Thomas Henry Gibson & the McIlroys of Leitrim Pat Gorman of Islandmoyle John Searight & the Redmond brothers from Gransha, Hugh Greenan from Ballybrick & Pat Byrne of Levallyreagh

Audio Clips of Fiddle Players Jackie Donnan 1 Jackie Donnan 2 Jackie Donnan 3 Jim Moore James & Gus McElroy, Eddie McMullan Geordie McAdam, Ernie Swain, Brian Sutherland Dianna Skillen Seamus Sands Andy Dickson 1 Andy Dickson 2 Nigel Boullier Comber & Balloo Sessions

The Coey Manuscripts James and Arthur Coey were two fiddle playing brothers from Ballydrain, a townland approximately two miles south-east of Comber. James was born in 1870, Arthur in 1881. Right The opening page of James and Arthur's manuscripts. 1 Reel - Lucy Campbell's Reel 2 Reel - Untitled Reel (only 7 bars found) Reel - Burn's Reel Jig - The Lilies of France (HD ref JS83) [Titled the Lilies of France by fiddle players like John Simpson & Willie McCloy this jig was collected by James O'Neill as the Girls of Banbridge ] 3 Jig - Untitled Jig (only 6 + 8 bars found) Jig - Kiss the Ladies Hornpipe - The Harvest Home Reel - Polly's Reel [Polly's Reel is generally known under the titles of the Tap Room or the Youngest Daughter ] 4 Reel - Miss Hamilton's Reel Highland Fling - The Highland Fling (only 3 bars found) 5 Reel - Untitled Reel (only 3.5 + 8 bars found) Hornpipe - Untitled Hornpipe Reel - The Yell Heifers [Yell is a local word for dry or thirsty, hence The Yell Heifers is named after heifer cattle that are thirsty or "dry", specifically when they are lowing. The reel is generally known as the Yellow Heifer or the Bunch of Keys ] Hornpipe - Drone's Hornpipe 6 Reel - Untitled Reel (only 6.5 bars found) Reel - The Banks of Inverness Jig - Jackson's Maids (HD ref JS82) Jig - The Green Little Island 7 Reel - Untitled Reel (only 2 + 8 bars found) Strathspey - The Miller of Drone Reel - The Missing Inn Reel (only 4 + 1.5 bars found) [The strathspey t he Miller of Drone was composed by Nathaniel Gow and is contained in Part Second of the Complete Repository of Original Scots Tunes Strathspeys Jigs and Dances by Niel Gow & Son's (1810 - 1820)] 8 Polka - Untitled Polka Reel - The Blackberry Blossom Reel - The Yellow Coated Lassie (only 2 bars found) 9 Strathspey - Untitled Strathspey (only 5 bars found) Hornpipe - A Hornpipe generally titled The Belfast Hornpipe Reel - Untitled Reel (title illegible and only 1 bar found) 10 Reel - Pretty Peggy Reel Country Dance - John of Paris (only 8 bars found) 11 Jig - Captain White Polka - Untitled Polka (title illegible) Polka - Ladies Polka (only 1st part found)

David Carse - Part 4 1 Reel - Clyde Side Lasses generally known as The Banks of the Ilen Quadrille Tune 6/8 - The Gorilla Quadrille 2 Country Dance - Princess Royal (HD ref WMcC93) Quadrille Tune 6/8 - The Muses (HD ref JS84) 3 Quadrille Tune 6/8 - 1st Lancers (2nd part similar to the Gander in the Prattie hole ) Reel - The Heather Breeze 4 Schottische - Untitled locally titled Jimmy Ward's Schottische (HD ref JW330) Hornpipe - Willie Donaldson's Hornpipe 5 Reel - Through the Broom (HD ref RQ206) Reel - The Brandy Bottle (HD ref RQ206) Polka - Inver Folk in the Shaws 6 Jig - The Irish Washerwoman Jig - The Rakes of Kildare 7 Hornpipe - Untitled generally known as The Liverpool Hornpipe Quadrille Tune 6/8 - A Quadrille locally known as The Maid of the Mill (HD ref SW216) 8 Jig - The Trip to the Cottage (HD ref RQ202) Fling - Green grows the Rashes O' (HD ref JW285) 9 Jig - The Cork Jig Waltz - White Wings Waltz Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Untitled locally known as The Whitehouse Lass (HD ref JS84) 10 Polka - Lord Nelson Jig - Dublin Castle 11 Schottische - Money Musk March - The Dead March Song - Auld Lang Syne 12 Song - Till we meet again Jig - The Heart of my Kitty (HD ref JS82) 13 March - Johnny Cope (HD ref DG375) Hornpipe - Saint Patrick's Hornpipe 14 Hornpipe - English Hornpipe Hornpipe - Untitled Hornpipe 15 Hornpipe - Untitled Hornpipe Waltz - Jenny Joe 16 Hornpipe - Cork Hornpipe Quadrille Tune 6/8 - A Quadrille locally known as Jimmy Ward's No 8 (HD refJW314) Hornpipe - Untitled (7 bars) 17 Quadrille Tune 2/4 - Untitled Quadrille see Jimmy Ward's Untitled Quadrille No 11 for 4th of the Lancers (HD ref JW315) Jig - The Tenpenny Bit 18 Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Untitled Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Untitled similar to The Greba Galop (HD ref JD159) 19 Quadrille Tune 2/4 - My Love is but a Lassie yet (HD ref WS121) Quadrille Tune 2/4 - The Girl I left behind me (HD ref WS125) Jig - Nora Creana 20 Quadrille Tune 2/4 - The Boyne Water (HD ref JW309) Schottische - Hop Light Loo (HD ref WMcC101) 21 Schottische - The Danish Polka (HD ref WS130) Mazurka - Untitled Mazurka Mazurka - Untitled Mazurka 22 Mazurka - Untitled Polka Mazurka locally known as Bobby Geddis's (HD ref BG185) Quadrille Tune 2/4 - Untitled Quadrille 23 Quadrille Tune 2/4 - Untitled Quadrille Tune 2/4 Waltz - Untitled Waltz 24 Waltz - The Peekaboo Waltz (HD ref WS136) Schottische - The Danish Polka (HD ref WS130) 25 March - Killycrankie Waltz - Haire's Waltz 26 Quadrille Tune 2/4 - Untitled Quadrille Tune Quadrille Tune 6/8 - The Quaker's Wife generally known as Merrily danced the Quaker's Wife (HD ref JD158) 27 Jig- The Blackthorn Jig also locally titled Jimmy Savage's Quadrille Tune (HD ref JS173) Song - Old Folks at Home 28 Jig- Untitled generally titled Sweet Biddy from Sligo (HD ref JD149) Schottische - The German Schottische Polka - Untitled

James Ward - Part 1 Part 1 of the manuscripts were handed down from Jimmy Ward to Dick McConville, to Dick's son Eugene, to myself and Jackie Donnan in 1994. 1 Jig - The Maid that can do it (HD ref JW29 6) Jig - The Royal Arch Mason (HD ref JW298 ) [Note: Jimmy Ward's signature on the right hand side.] 2 Reel - The Harvest Home Reel (HD ref JW324) Reel - Rachael Rea's Reel (HD ref JD160) 3 Reels - The Copperfire Reel generally known in Ireland as Rakish Paddy (HD ref JW322) Reel - The Regatta Reel (HD ref JW293) Jig - Joan down upon Jennet (HD ref JW293) [Note - Rakish Paddy is Scottish in origin where it is known as Caber Feidh (The Deer’s Antlers). It is interesting that the original Scottish title Caber Feidh is phonetically similar to Jimmy Ward's title Copperfire . 4 Reel - Old McDonald's Reel (HD ref JW320) Reel - Scotch Reel (HD ref JW316) 5 Reels - The New Road to Elgin (HD ref JW326) Reel - The Forth Bridge of Edinburgh (HD ref JW324) [The Forth Bridge of Edinburgh is a version of the reel well-known in Ireland as The Musical Priest .] 6 Reel - The Lily of the West generally known as Miss Monaghan (HD ref JW324) Reel - Sleeping Maggie a version of Drowsy Maggie (HD ref JW321) [Note - Jimmy Ward was known for adding additional parts to a tune, often in a different key to those preceding them.] 7 Hornpipe - Gibraltar Hornpipe (HD ref JW288) Reel - Roll her down the Mountain (HD ref JW320) 8 Jig - Untitled (HD ref JW300) Jig - All the Blue Bonnets are over the Border (HD ref JW290) 9 Jig - Jackson's dear Whiskey (HD ref JW292) Quadrille Tune 6/8 - The New May Moon (HD ref JW308) Quadrille Tune 2/4 - Untitled generally known as Duncan Davidson (HD ref JW306) 10 Reel - Lady Hillsborough's Reel (HD ref JW317) Reel - Lord Egilton's auld Man: Scotch Reel generally known as a strathspey titled Lord Eglintoun's auld man (HD ref JW317) Reel - New Irish Reel (HD ref JW325) 11 Jig - The Widow's Rant (HD ref JW299) Jig - The Self Jig (HD ref JW299) known in East Down as The Lilies of France (HD ref JS83), and best known as collected by James O'Neill as The Girls of Banbridge as published in Music of Ireland , Francis O'Neill, 1903. Jig - The Lug of the Spade (HD ref JW296) 12 Reel - The Bowl of Coffee (HD ref JW321) Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Untitled Quadrille for the Lancers Jimmy Ward No 8 (HD ref JW314) 13 Reel - Untitled Reel locally known as Jimmy Ward's Reel (HD ref JW329) Hornpipe - Untitled Hornpipe (HD ref JW290) 14 Jig - The Miners of Wicklow (HD ref JW296) Quadrille Tune 6/8 - The Tyrone Quickstep (HD ref JW311) known in East Down as Brian O'Neill (HD ref WMcC96) a version of the well-known jig Paddy's Return Jig - The Rakes of Newcastle (HD ref JW297) 15 Jig - The Kinegar Slashers (HD ref JW295) generally known as The Kinnegad Slashers 16 Reel - Touch it if you dare (HD ref JW328) 17 Hornpipe - Untitled Hornpipe

Step Dancing Videos Maggie Pickens Maggie Pickens, also known as Maggie Pickie, was a very popular step dance throughout Down and much of Ulster. It is danced solo or as a two-hand dance. Interestingly several fiddle players were keen step dancers - Jackie Donnan, Willie McCloy, Willie Herron and James McElroy - to name but a few. Both Jackie and James danced Maggie Pickens, in fact James McElroy would often have asked Jackie to play the tune for James to dance to. Bernie Graham and Bernie Corr (dancing below) learned this version of Maggie Pickens from Margaret Rea and Joe McGuigan of County Derry. Dancers - Bernie Graham (Bangor, County Down) & Bernie Corr (Randalstown, County Antrim) Fiddles - Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Gweedore, County Donegal) and her daughter Nia Ní Bheirn. Recorded - 23rd July 2022 in Belfast on the Titanic Dock. Dance Instructor, Bernie Graham (Bangor, County Down) front row in the centre, leads her step-dancing class in dancing Maggie Pickens for Belfast Trad in the Rosemary Hall, All Souls Church, Belfast 2020. Fiddle - Martin Dowling (Belfast) Mazurka The original Mazurka was danced as a set of four couples; it derived from a Polish Folk dance from the province of Masovia in the 1840s. The two-hand dance the Polka Mazurka then derived out of the Polka but was danced to Mazurka music. The Polka Mazurka is a popular dance around East and Central County Down; the only other area that I have the seen the Polka Mazurka danced is in Glenties in County Donegal. In Down and Donegal the Mazurka is generally a two-hand dance. Bernie Graham learned the following Mazurka danced solo from M argaret Rea, the step dancer from Derry City. It came from C é line Tubridy who learned it in Gortahirk in North-West Donegal where she was raised. The steps can be found on page 90 of A Selection of Irish Traditional Step Dances , 1998 written by Michael Tubridy ( C é line's widower) where it is titled the Little Dutch Dance . Dancers - Bernie Graham (Bangor, County Down) & Bernie Corr (Randalstown, County Antrim) Fiddles - Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Gweedore, County Donegal) and her daughter Nia Ní Bheirn. Recorded - 23rd July 2022 in Belfast on the Titanic Dock.

David Carse - Part 3 1 Reel - New May Moon Reel - Craig of Ailsey 2 Reel - The Opera Reel 3 Reel - The Maids of Galway (HD ref WMcC98) Reel - Dick's Reel Jig - The Campbells are coming (HD ref JW294) 4 Hornpipe - The Cuckoo's Nest (HD ref JD147) 5 Reel - Jenny among the hay Reel - Carrickmannon Lasses (HD ref WS128) Quadrille Tune 6/8 - The Quaker generally titled Merrily danced the Quaker (HD ref JD158) 6 Waltz - The Scotch Waltz, also locally called The Girl from Foley's Hotel or Sweet Sixteen (HD ref WS135) Quadrille Tune 6/8 - 3rd Lancers locally titled Whut wud ye dae if yer Rump was brok (HD ref JS123) 7 Jig - Father O'Flynn Reel - Glasgow Reel 8 Schottische - Come and Go Schottische 9 Reel - Gypsy Lass (HD ref WMcC97) Hornpipe - Untitled Hornpipe 10 Hornpipe - Untitled Hornpipe Strathspey - Untitled Strathspey 11 Reel - Carrickmannon Lasses (HD ref WS128) Reel - Jenny among the Hay Polka - Ballroom Polka 12 Quadrille Tune 2/4 - Duncan Davidson (HD ref WS128) Polka - Dargon Polka Schottische - What's a' the Steer 13 Song - Home fires burning Reel - Purty Kate 14 Polka - Heel and Toe Polka Jig - Paddy get up (HD ref JE179) Reel - The Blackbird (HD ref WMcC97) 15 Reel - Scotch Mary (HD ref JW321) Hornpipe - Untitled Hornpipe 16 Hornpipe - The Caspier's Hornpipe Hornpipe - The West End Hornpipe 17 Reel - The Black Haired Girl Reel - The Wine that shook the Barley Jig - Rory O'Moore 18 Hornpipe - The First of May (HD ref JD148) Hornpipe - The old Wife of 80 years 19 Figure Dance - Bessy Black (HD ref WS113) Country Dance - Princess Royal (HD ref WMcC93) 20 Indecipherable Jig - Aprons On (HD ref RQ203) Jig - The Royal Arch Mason (HD ref JW298) 21 Jig - Jackson's Trip (HD ref JS82) Jig - Tilerugan Lodge Jig - The Connaught Man's Rambles (HD ref WMcC95) 22 Untitled Strathspey - Miss Lyle's Strathspey (HD ref JD163) 23 Jig - Killyban Braes Reel - Mason's Apron (HD ref WMcC98) 24 Jig - Trip to the Cottage Reel - Push about the Joram (HD ref RQ205) 25 Polka - Untitled Polka (last 3 bars) Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Untitled locally titled Whut wud ye dae if yer Rump was brok (HD ref JS123) Reel - Miss McLeod's Reel (HD ref JW319) 26 Reel - Touch me if you dare (HD ref JRQ206) Hornpipe - The Blackbird 27 March - The White Cockade Polka - The Wooden Stane Dyke 28 Waltz - Untitled Waltz Reel - Katy got her clinkin generally titled The High Road to Linton (HD ref JD161) 29 Waltz - The Woodland Whisper (HD ref JW341) Waltz - The Dewdrop (HD ref RQ207) 30 Schottische - The Governor Schottische Schottische - Untitled locally titled John Simpson's Schottische (HD ref JS85) 31 Waltz - The Cornflower Waltz (HD ref WS135) Jig - The Blackthorn Stick occasionally called The Moorhall Jig (HD ref JSav124) 32 Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Untitled generally known as 4th figure Patience Lancers (HD ref WS124) 2nd part Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Untitled (Jimmy Ward's No 6 for 1st of the Lancers HD ref JW313) Quadrille Tune 6/8 - Untitled generally known as 4th figure Patience Lancers (HD ref WS124) 1st part

Map of East Down The Savages of East Down Jackie Donnan, Willie Lindsay The Jimmy Savages, Jimmy Bonar, Bobby Geddis The Miskellys of Ballygowan The Fiddler Orr and 1798 at Carricknacessnagh The Edmond Brothers, Godfrey Downey, Jimmy McVeigh Robert McVeagh, Hughie Hunter, Henry Harris, Willie Silcock The Quinns of the Glass Moss

Andy Dickson 2 The following audio tracks were recorded at the Tivoli Bar Folk Club, Donaghadee on 17th April 1978 by Denis Reynolds which he later digitised. Reel - The Man from Bundoran & The Glass of Beer Andy Dickson (fiddle), Dermy Diamond (banjo), Tara Bingham (flute) accompanied b y Eugene "Spooly" Kelly (guitar) and Sammy Weir (bodhran) play two reels - The Man from Bundoran and The Glass of Beer. The Man from Bundoran, The Glass of Beer Andy Dickson 00:00 / 02:37 Reels - McDonagh's & Charlie Lennon's No.4 Andy Dickson (fiddle), Dermy Diamond (banjo), Tara Bingham (flute) accompanied b y Eugene "Spooly" Kelly (guitar) play two reels - McDonagh's and Charlie Lennon's No 4 McDonaghs, Charlie Lennons No 4 Andy Dickson 00:00 / 03:08 Reels - The Crosses of Annagh, Crowley's & Fergal O'Gara Andy Dickson (fiddle), Dermy Diamond (banjo), Tara Bingham (flute) accompanied by Eugene "Spooly" Kelly (guitar) and Sammy Weir (bodhran) play three reels - The Crosses of Annagh, Crowley's and Fergal O'Gara. Crosses of Annagh, Crowleys, Fergal OGara Andy Dickson 00:00 / 03:58 Reels - Farewell to Ireland & The Tarbolton Andy Dickson (fiddle), Dermy Diamond (banjo), Tara Bingham (flute) accompanied by Eugene "Spooly" Kelly (guitar) and Sammy Weir (bodhran) play two reels - Farewell to Ireland and The Tarbolton. Farewell to Ireland, The Tarbolton Andy Dickson 00:00 / 05:29 Jigs - The Black Rogue & Richard Dwyer's Andy Dickson (fiddle), Dermy Diamond (banjo), Tara Bingham (flute) accompanied by Eugene "Spooly" Kelly (guitar) and Sammy Weir (bodhran) play two jigs - The Black Rogue and Richard Dwyer's. The Black Rogue, Richard Dwyer's Andy Dickson 00:00 / 03:12

Step Dancing to fiddle music below Spence's Mountain, east Mourne Mountains, 1874 Hans & Annie Donnan c.1900 Champion step dancer Hans Stephenson Donnan (1859 - 1900) Dancing on Bangor Boat, 1906 Square Dancing, Bangor, 1963 Hans & Annie Donnan c.1900 Champion step dancer Hans Stephenson Donnan (1859 - 1900) 1/13 Dancing Half Sets at Lambeg on the River Lagan, c.1930 Dancers are thought to include; Dorothy Beattie, Patricia Mulholland, Roy Lillie & Joe Stewart (gentleman in the top hat). Fiddlers thought to be Paddy O'Rafferty and his daughter McElroy's Ceili, 1949 Clea Ball, 1900 Waringsford Orange Hall, 1920 McElroy's Ceili, 1949 1/12 Greyabbey Village Hall, 2006. American students visit the weekly dancing class Back row - US student, Philip Robinson, Andy Brown, US student, John Bailie, Phyllis Goodall, US student, Hammy Lawther, Betty Schofield, Betty Woods, Margaret Gibson, John Davidson, Jim Cuthbertson Middle row - Rachel McAvoy, US students Front row - two US students, Nigel Boullier (fiddle), Jackie Donnan (fiddle), Bob Traite

Map of the Ards Peninsula John Macpherson Mulhollan Ned & Tom McCarry Andy Hanlon of Portaferry Sam White, Joe & Mary Walker, John & Annie Eadie Jimmy Bailie, the Kearneys, Barney Smyth, Brigid McGrath Harry Coulter Jim McBride, Agnes White Francis Donnelly, Eddie Devine, James Tomelty James Bailie, Frank & Bob Caughey, James Reid & Johnnie Dunn Eddie McMullan, Stevie Egan