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All Of O'Neill's 1001, a long term project to record every tune set down in "The Dance Music Of Ireland O'Neill's 1001," by Francis O'Neill in 1907.

While a many of the tunes are still played within the Irish music tradition, many pieces in this collection are different versions, or close cousins, or tunes entirely lost to time. While arguments have been made as to the accuracy of notation in O'Neill's collection, I think he was a devoted amateur, obsessed with the music he learned as a boy in Sligo, and found again with the Irish diaspora of Chicago.

While I dont have all these tunes in my own repertoire, I memorize each tune enough to record it, trying to bring out a bit of the music in the tune. Through that process, I think there is something to learn of how Irish traditional music was played by the many musicians who contributed to the collection.