Banish Misfortune
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Banish Misfortune", in Gaelic "Dibir an Mio-ad", "Máire Ní Eidhinn" or "Ruaig an Mí-ádh",<br> "The Bag of Meal", "George Whelan's Jig", "The Humors of Mullinafauna", "The Little Bag of Meal",<br> "Nancy Hines", "Nancy Hynes", "The Parish Girl", "Round the Carthouse", "The Shady Groves",<br> "The Shady Groves of Piedmont", "Come Let's a' to the Bridal" or "Come to the Bridal" is an Irish jig<br> in D major or D Mixolydian.<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland (1907) prints the tune under the titles "Banish Misfortune",<br> "The Humors of Mullinafauna" and "Nancy Hines," while Roche has it as<br> "The Humors of Mullinafauna" and "The Little Bag of Meal". P.W. Joyce gives the jig as<br> "The Bag of Meal" and was the first to print it (in his Ancient Irish Music, 1873), according to<br> Brendan Breathnach, a setting reproduced in Howe and William Bradbury Ryan's publications.<br> "Máire Ní Eidhinn" (Nancy Hynes) is the title in Stanford/Petrie's 1905 Complete Collection of<br> Irish Music, although O'Neill thought the 3-part version he collected in Chicago from County<br> Tipperary fiddler Edward Cronin to be "much superior". Petrie takes his title from the poem<br> "Máire Ni Éidhinn" by Raftery, the blind poet of Connacht. Piper Willie Clancy gives an<br> alternate title as "The Shady Groves of Piedmont". Paul de Grae believes the three<br> versions of the jig ("Banish Misfourtune", "The Humors of Mullinafauna" and "Nancy Hynes")<br> printed by O'Neill are dissimilar enough from either Joyce's or Petrie's settings that they can be<br> discounted as O'Neill's source.<br> The banjo tablature is adapted from Ken Perlman's.<br> It was printed in Breathnach's CRÉ I (1963),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Cotter's Traditional Irish Tin Whistle Tutor (1989),<br> Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005),<br> Mallinson's 100 Essential (1995),<br> Mitchell's Dance Music of Willie Clancy (1993),<br> Moylan's Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra (1994),<br> Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907),<br> Perlman's Melodic Clawhammer Banjo (1979) and<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883).<br> It was recorded by Bobby Casey on Casey in the Cowhouse (1992. Originally recorded 1959),<br> The Chieftains on Chieftains 2 (1969) and The Chieftains Live (1977),<br> Willie Clancy on The Pipering of Willie Clancy Vol. 2 (1983),<br> How To Change a Flat Tire on A Point of Departure,<br> Paul Brady, Peter Browne, Andy Irvine, Donal Lunny, Matt Molloy & Tommy Potts on The Gathering (1981),<br> Tommy Peoples on Traditional Irish Music Played on the Fiddle,<br> Tommy Keane & Jacqueline McCarthy on The Wind Among The Reeds,<br> Trapezoid on Three Forks of Cheat (1979),<br> Festy Conlan on Breeze from Erin (1969) and Danú on Think Before You Think (2000).<br>
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