Listening to the 1978 Topic album "Memories of Sligo" by Tommy Healy and Johnny Duffy, and the track "The First Part of the Lancers" specifically, my attention was drawn to the sleevenotes by Reg Hall:
"The first Part of The Lancers, an untitled piece, was readily recalled when Johnny and Tommy were asked to play something old-fashioned and out of the ordinary and it is one of the very few Irish traditional dance tunes that can be pinned down to a non-traditional, composed origin. It ...
I recently digitised my personal copy of Frank Kidson's limited and very scarse "Old English Dances" (also called "Old English Country Dances"), published in a run of 80 copies, 1890, and offer it up freely for the benefit of the traditional music community. Please feel free to share, but please keep the original copyright details intact and do not republish on the web. This is a large file, around 55MB in size.
You may download directly here (Right click, Save as.)
