Monday 2 June 2025
Tune of the Day: The Cat and the Bacon
Traditional Irish jig
This jig is taken from George Petrie's The Complete Collection of Irish Music, published in London in 1905, where it is given as “A Cork jig. From P. Carew's MS”. Researcher Nicholas Carolan of the Irish Traditional Music Archive records that P. Carew (or, as collector William Forde gave his name, Paddy Carey) was a musically literate professional uilleann piper living in Lag Lane, St Finbarre's parish, Cork, in the mid-1840s.