The Angry Peeler
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Angry Peeler", also known as "Brodie Kierce's", "The Clogher Rose",<br> "Dónal De Barra's" or "Flowers Of The Burren" is an Irish double jig in G Major.<br> The parts are played AABB. <br> A 'peeler' was, and still sometimes is, a slang term for a policeman in the British<br> Isles and in America until about 1890.<br> The term was derived from Sir Robert Peel who was appointed Home Secretary in 1822.<br> Believing that the way to standardize the police was to make it an official paid profession,<br> Peel put a bill before Parliament, which passed as the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829, given<br> Royal Assent on 19 June 1829. It placed the policing arrangements for the capital directly<br> under the control of Sir Robert Peel. Metropolitan Police patrols took to the streets<br> on 29 September 1829. The new police force was unpopular and officers were sometimes<br> physically attacked. The first officer to be killed in the line of duty was Joseph Grantham<br> in 1830.<br> A version of the tune was entered as an untitled jig in<br> Book 3 of the large music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper<br> Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894).<br> It was recorded by The Kilfenora Ceili Band on The Fabulous Kilfenora Ceili Band (1958),<br> Colm O'Donnell on Farewell to Evening Dances (1999),<br> Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin and Patrick Ourceau on Tracin' (1999),<br> Chris Droney on Down from Bell Harbour (2005),<br> The Tulla Céilí Band on 60th Anniversary Celebration (2006) and<br> Matt and Shannon Heaton on Lovers' Well (2008).<br> It was printed in Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann I (1963) (appears as<br> "Carraig an tSiop"),<br> Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) and<br> Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907).<br>
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