The Lady on the Island
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Lady on the Island", in Gaelic "An Bhean Uasal ar an Oileán", also known as "The<br> Lady of the Island" is an Irish reel in D Major. The parts are played AB (Breathnach,<br> Flaherty, Miller & Perron, Mulvihill, Tubridy) or AAB (Brody, O'Neill, Taylor).<br> Ciaran Carson, in his book Last Night's Fun (1996) comments:<br> 'The Lady' is very rarely used as a first tune, because it's so handy for going into<br> from another tune, or for tacking on to the end of a set if you can think of nothing<br> else. It's a kind of floating tune which gets promiscuously attached to other tunes;<br> come to think of it, it's a variant of 'Rolling on the Ryegrass'".<br> It has been suggested, without any evidence whatsoever, that the title refers to the<br> Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor, built in 1884.<br> <br> It was printed in Breathnach's CRÉ I (1963),<br> Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983),<br> Flaherty's Trip to Sligo (1990),<br> Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music (1977),<br> Miller & Perron's Irish Traditional Fiddle Music 2nd Edition (2006),<br> Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986),<br> O'Neill's O'Neill's Irish Music (1915),<br> Taylor's Crossroads Dance (1992) and<br> Tubridy's Irish Traditional Music, vol. 1 (1999).<br> It was recorded by <br> Dermy Diamond, Tara Diamond, Dáithí Sproule on Seanchairde/Old Friends (2009),<br> Dick Brennan & Tommy Hunt on The Coleman Archive, vol. 2: The Home Place (2003),<br> Joe Heaney (with Gabe O'Sullivan) on Joe & the Gabe,<br> Chieftains on Chieftains 3 (1971),<br> Mary Bergin on Feadoga Stain/Traditional Irish Music,<br> Planxty on After the Break,<br> Kilfenora Ceili Band on Irish Traditional Fiddle Music,<br> Shaskeen on My Love is in America,<br> Dale Russ on Jody's Heaven and<br> Paddy O'Brien (Co. Offaly) on The Paddy O'Brien Collection.<br>
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