"The Highlander's Farewell to Ireland", also known as "The Highland Watch's Farewell to Ireland" is a Scottish strathspey in A Dorian. The parts are played AAB (Gow, Skye), AABB (Glen, S. Johnson), AA'BB (Phillips), ABCCDD (Athole), AABBCCDD (Kerr), AABBCCDDEE (Johnson) or AABBCCDEEFGGHH (McGlashan, Ross). This is a strathspey composed for the fiddle in imitation of bagpipe style. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest printing of the tune in Neil Stewart's 1761 collection, although it also appears in the 1768 Gillespie Manuscript of Perth. It was also entered into the 1770 music manuscript collection of Peeblesshire musician James Ballantine. Originally published with two parts, it was a favorite piece for variation sets. For example, it appears in the 1780 Robert Ross collection in 6 parts — a similar version was recorded by Cape Breton fiddler Bill Lamey in the 1950's. It is similar to Galax, Va., fiddler Emmett Lundy's (1864–1953) old-time version known as "Highlander's Farewell". It was printed in Glen's Collection of Scottish Dance Music, vol. 1 (1891), Gow's Complete Repository, Part 2 (1802), Johnson's Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century (1984), S. Johnson's Kitchen Musician No. 20: A Twenty Year Anniversary Collection (2003), Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880), MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887), McGlashan's Collection of Reels (c. 1786), Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994), Robert Ross's Choice Collection of Scots Reels (1780) (as "The Highlander's Farewell") and Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884). It was recorded by Tommy Peoples on Tommy Peoples (1976), Buddy MacMaster on The Cape Breton Tradition (2003) and Wendy MacIsaac on The 'Reel' Thing (1994).