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TREOIRAg Deanamh CeoilDance m usic tunes submitted by Paddy RyanSongs submitted by Seamus Mac MathUnaOld Man QuinnHornpipeOLD MAN QUINN and THE SHASKEEN, are two South Leitrim tunes taken from thecollection of Stephen Grier, a piper and native of Abbeylare, G ranard, Co. Longford, wholived in Bohey, Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim, where he wrote his collection of more than onethousand tunes in 1883. Unfortunately, the collection was never published but a copy canbe found in the Traditional Music Archive. A three-part setting of Old Man Quinn appearsin O'Neill's 'Four Hundred Selections arranged for Piano and Violin', under the title"Logier's". Another three-part setting of the same tune appears in O'Neills 1850 collectionunder the title "Old Man Quinn". O'Neill got the tine from the piper, Sergeant James Early,from Aughavas, Co. Leitrim. Early learned it from another piper and elderly relative, JamesQuinn (born 1805), from Cloone, Co. Leitrim. Hence the title "Old Man Quinn"." 1 e jJ IJjJJ rEEf I rfrr _I crrr rrrr I r j DJJI JjJJ rEW rfrr DJ) I,11 Jffl jJ] IJ J3 :111: if I OOE£r.r I 00 Errf I crrr [IT I r tOO I~. 1 J J r FE fir f r JfflIJ93J jJJJ I J J3 :11The ShaskeenReelTHE SHASKEEN HORNPIPE appears as a reel "Sheskan Reel", in Grier's collection but itplays better as a hornpipe. The title is thought to have come from the name of a river inneighbouring Co. Longford, a tributary of the Inny near Ballymahon. Both of these tunes,together with many other rare tunes from the Drier and Sutherland collections fromSouth Leitrim, can be heard on the excellent CD "Leitrim's Hidden Treasure", recordedby the very talented McNamara Family from Carrickavoher, Aughavas, Co. Leitrim,published by Drumlin Records in 1998." c mlj~EJJIEEErEftflrj3ettrIOO!.J@lj~EJJIEEErEfrfI,. EW [f£fl fflJ H {B'IEfrrrrflCfrFrrFIC et r eT! rflrF r ~I,. ri)#J;PirfinyIEif[f£flgH