Archive for October, 2022

Weekly Irish Tune from the O’Neill Collection – Week 3

Posted on October 17, 2022 in Uncategorized
Two lines of music notation with heading, in Irish and in English: An Fear a fuair Bás agus do eirigh arís, The Man Who Died and Rose Again.
‘An Fear do fuair Bás agus do Éirigh Arís/ The Man Who Died and Rose Again.

The Man Who Died and Rose Again. (Double Jig). In Francis O’Neill: The dance music of Ireland: 1001 gems. To see the book, Visit the Hesburgh Special Collections: Special Coll.Rare Books Large M 1744 .D36 1986, or see this digitized copy in Hathi Trust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011983920

If you post a recording on social media of yourself playing our Weekly Irish Tune, please use the hashtag #ONeillTunes.

Weekly Irish Tune from the O’Neill Collection- Week 2

Posted on October 10, 2022 in Music, Special collections

Drowsy Maggie. From Francis O’Neill: The dance music of Ireland: 1001 gems. 

To see the book, Visit the Hesburgh Special Collections: Special Coll.Rare Books Large M 1744 .D36 1986, or see this digitized copy in Hathi Trust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011983920

If you post a recording of yourself on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, playing our Weekly Irish Tune, please use the hashtag #ONeillTunes.

Weekly Irish Tune from the O’Neill Collection- Week 1

Posted on October 3, 2022 in Music, Old Books, Special collections

We plan to share a tune from the O’Neill Collection (the library of Captain Francis O’Neill) each week this semester. If you wish to share a recording of yourself playing this tune, please tag it on social media with #ONeillTunes.

Week 1 

Image of  a section of musical notation with the heading, Graine Nuisean and the English translation, Grace Nugent.
Graine Nuinsean/ Grace Nugent.



Grace Nugent, in Edward Bunting’s A General of the Ancient Irish Music. Circa 1800. Link to digital image: https://marble.nd.edu/item/000297305

Watch this space for next week’s tune!