Two manuscript score books bound into a single small hardback volume labelled ‘Music’ on the front cover and signed by Justin McCarthy, Cappamore on the inside of the front cover. The inside of the back cover contains the names of John McCarthy and Cornelius Collins of Cappamore, county Limerick. The book contains handwritten musical notations of jigs, reels, hornpipes and other traditional tunes in different hands.
McCarthy, John (1885-1966), Irish traditional musicianThis collection comprises musical notations of jigs, reels, hornpipes, mazurkas, flings, gallops, quadrilles, lancers, schottisches, mazurkas and waltzes popular in Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century.
McCarthy, John (1885-1966), Irish traditional musicianPhotocopies of all but two pages of the contents of P17/5.
McCarthy, John (1885-1966), Irish traditional musicianPhotocopies of the pages of P17/3.
McCarthy, John (1885-1966), Irish traditional musicianPhotocopies of the pages of P17/1.
McCarthy, John (1885-1966), Irish traditional musicianCommercially printed 12-stave score sheets, imprinted ‘Acme P & W’, bound into a hardback volume labelled ‘Music’ on the front cover. The sheets contains handwritten musical notations of jigs, reels, hornpipes and other popular traditional dances in several different hands. With a loose insert of a reel on a slip of paper, and several blank or semi-blank score sheets.
McCarthy, John (1885-1966), Irish traditional musicianCommercially printed 12-stave score sheets bound into a hardback volume. The book contains handwritten musical notations of jigs, reels, hornpipes and other traditional tunes in different hands, some possibly dating from the 1870s. With loose inserts of additional musical notations.
McCarthy, John (1885-1966), Irish traditional musician