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PW Joyce gave over 180 Co Limerick tunes to antiquarian George Petrie, who published some 20 of them in his 1855 volume Ancient Music of Ireland.
An extract of The flannel jacket from Petrie’s Ancient Music of Ireland (1882)
More of these tunes appear in an incomplete Petrie volume of 1882; in Francis Hoffmann’s Ancient Music of Ireland from the Petrie Collection Arranged for the Pianoforte; and in Charles V. Stanford’s The Complete Petrie Collection of Ancient Irish Music. PW Joyce also contributed the words and melodies of two songs to the 1897 Boosey volume Irish Folk-Songs, a collection of mostly original song-lyrics written by A.P. Graves and set to traditional melodies by Charles Wood.
The Irish song book : with original airs / edited with an introduction and notes by Alfred Perceval Graves
Irish folk songs / the words by Alfred Perceval Graves ; the airs arranged by Charles Wood
Tunes from P. W. Joyce in The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland: Arranged for Piano-forte. Vol. 1 / edited by George Petrie
Tunes from PW Joyce in Music of Ireland / Collected, Edited, and Harmonized for the Pianoforte by the Late George Petrie
Tunes from PW Joyce in The Complete Collection of Irish Music / as Noted by George Petrie (1789-1866); Edited, from the Original Manuscripts by Charles Villiers Stanford