Morrison's Jig (Port Uí Mhuirgheasa, The Stick Across the Hob, Maurice Carmody’s Favourite)

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Source: Marcel Picard, Harold Kenny, Dennis Wilson - The Kingston Collection of Irish Dance Tunes, adapted
James Morrison (1893 - 1947) was another of the great Sligo fiddle players.
This well-known tune is named after Morrison, who recorded it in the 1930's; however, Morrison did not compose it but rather had
it from a Dromlacht, County Kerry, accordion player (a member of his band) named Tom Carmody who knew it as 'The Stick
across the Hob' (Taylor, 1992). Carmody learned it from his father, Maurice. Philippe Varlet mentions that the tune (which
Morrison was supposed to have learned the night before the recording session, according to Harry Bradshaw) was to be called
'Maurice Carmody’s Fa�orite' on Morrison’s 1936 Columbia recording, but that the record company’s proofreading was not what it
should have been and one batch was labelled 'Maurice Comedy’s.' [Morrison frequently paired the tune with 'Richard Brennan’s
Fa�orite']. — Fiddler's Companion
James Morrison (3 May 1891 - 1947)
James Morrison
Jim MorrisonJames Morrison,
was born known
in Drumfin on as
the“The Professor”,
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Riverstown on 3rd May, Irish fiddler.
1893. His father had a small farm
He was born in Drumfin on the Coach Road to Sligo near Riverstown on 3rd
and made an additional li�ing as a builder and carpenter. This was great fiddle and flute and country-houseMay, 1893. His father
dance country and,
had a small farm and made an additional living as a builder and carpenter. This was great fiddle and
while there was music in the family, it was all around him in the wider community.....At the age of seventeen he was employed by
flute and
the Gaelic League country-house
to teach dance
the Connacht country
style and, while
of stepdancing therelanguage
at their was music in the
school in family,
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was all around him
in the wider community...At the age of seventeen he was employed by the Gaelic League to teach the
He sailed to America in 1915 at the age of Twenty-one and, after a brief stay in Boston, moved to New York, where he won the
Connacht style of stepdancing at their language school in County Mayo.
fiddle competition in the New York Feis in 1918. He taught dancing and fiddle and one of his pupils was Paddy Killoran from his
He sailed to America in 1915 at the age of Twenty-one and, after a brief stay in Boston, moved to
home area...New
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http://www.irishfiddle.com/morrison.html
fiddle and one of his pupils was Paddy Killoran from his home area... Later they were to work together
The official professionally,
James Morrisonand website,
with hosted
Michael byColeman.
the Riverstown Branch ofmade
Jim Morrison Comhaltas
many http://www.morrison.ie/
records between 1921 and 1936.
Morrison was one of the leading Irish music teachers in New York in the 1930s and ‘40s. In addition
to the fiddle, he could play the flute and button accordion (and wrote a tutor on the latter) and taught
hundreds of young Irish-American students to play traditional music on various instruments.
Source: http://www.irishfiddle.com/morrison.html and Wikipedia.
The official James Morrison website, hosted by the Riverstown Branch of Comhaltas: http://www.
morrison.ie/ is temporarily off-line at time of writing.

J 10 CCE Harp of Tara Kingston Irish Slow Session Jig Set 2