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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

New edition of a general Collection of the ancient Irish music : containing a variety of Irish Airs, never before published, and also the compositions of Conolan and Carolan, collected from the harpers, etc., in the different provinces of Ireland, and adapted for the pianoforte by Edward Bunting. Dublin, published by I. Willis, approximately 1800.

Watch this space for next week’s tune!