Wednesday 28 February 2024
Tune of the Day: The Humors of Castlelyons
Traditional Irish jig
The earliest appearance of this jig is found in the c. 1841 manuscript collection of Dublin collector Henry Hudson. In Irish Folk Music: A Fascinating Hobby (1910), Francis O'Neill says the tune is “probably not a very ancient composition. It was not known, evidently, to any collectors of Irish folk music before Dr. Hudson obtained a setting of it from a noted piper named Sullivan, in the County of Cork (a rival of another musician called Reilaghan). The tune has found its way into American collections of harmonized melodies.”