Sunday 5 January 2025
Tune of the Day: The Green Meadow
Traditional Irish jig
This jig can be found in Francis O'Neill's collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. O'Neill names as his source for this tune “O'Reilly”, probably blind piper Marin O'Reilly, a contemporary of O'Neill's who won first prize in the pipers' competition at the annual Feis in Dublin in 1901.
It must however be pointed out that the jig is closely related to “Jackson's Walk to Limerick”, a tune which is traditionally attributed to 18th-century gentleman piper Walker ‛Piper’ Jackson.