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Mairseail Alasdruim

from Ceol ag an nGeata: Music at the Gate by Tim Hill

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I conclude the album with a take on one of the earliest recordings of Irish music, from Kerry piper Mici ‘Cumba’ O’Suilleabhain’s wax cylinder recording of it in 1898 for the Feis Ceoil commission. The great piper, scholar, and historian Pat Mitchell also recorded it in 1976 for his
Topic LP after painstakingly notating it from the ‘Cumba’ O’Suilleabhain cylinder. Translated as Alastrom’s March, or The Lament of the Women at the Slaughter, it is associated with the Battle of Knocknanuss in Cork in 1647 and the Irish Confederate Wars between the armies of Munster
and the English Parliament, where Murrough O’Brien’s ruthless army emerged as the victors. It consists of an opening jig, a series of short slow airs alluding to the provinces of Ireland, and a final jig, Cnocan an Teampaill, that was supposedly danced by his wife when he was
pronounced dead. Mitchell’s transcription can be found in the 1981 Na Piobairi Uilleann publication Ceol an Phiobaire.

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from Ceol ag an nGeata: Music at the Gate, released October 20, 2019
Produced by Kyle Alden
Engineered and mixed by Tom Luekens

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