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"Dublin Streets", in Gaelic "Sraidide/Sraide Baile átha Cliath" also known as
"The Dublin Boys" or "A Fig for a Kiss" is an Irish slip jig in 9/8 time and E Minor.
The parts are played AAB (Haverty, Levey, O'Neill) or AABB (Kerr).
The name Dublin is derived from the Gaelic dubh linne, or 'the black pool'. The jig appears in the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork uilleann piper and Church of Ireland cleric James Goodman, note-for-note the same as Levey's setting. It was printed in Giblin's Collection of Traditional Irish Dance Music (1928), P.M. Haverty's One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2 (1858), Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1880's), Levey's First Collection of the Dance Music of Ireland (1858), Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976), O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) and Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907). |