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    The morning dew [Rí na bpíobairí], port

    Séamus Mac Aonghusa a bhailigh ó Hughie Bonar, a rugadh in 1874

    The morning dew [Rí na bpíobairí], port / Paddy Glackin, fidil

    Cé gurb é ‘The Morning Dew’ an teideal a thug Séamus Ennis síos san athscríobh, tá an port seo i measc port éagsúla i nDún na nGall a dtugtar an t-ainm ‘The King of the Pipers’ orthu cé go bhfuil an ceol éagsúil i chuile cheann acu. Tá leagan eile de ‘The King of the Pipers’ in Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2 (Uimh. 45). Bhailigh Brendán Breathnach ó John Doherty é in 1966 agus luaigh sé go raibh an t-ainm céanna ar cheolta eile ach nach raibh aon ghaol acu le leagan Doherty. Tá roinnt cosúlachtaí sna páirteanna idir ‘The King of the Pipers’ a foilsíodh in Music of Ireland (Uimh. 702) le O’Neill, agus an leagan seo a d’athscríobh Séamus Ennis ó fhidléireacht Hughie Bonar Márta 1944.

    The morning dew [Rí na bpíobairí], port, lámhscríofa ag Séamus Mac Aonghusa, CBÉ CC020.Hughie Bonar 8
    Paddy Glackin / Maurice Gunning, 2022. Íomha le buíochas ó TG4