Patrick Quin (c. 1745 - early 19th century)

Patrick Quin his life: his tunes: his songs: his portrait: his harp: More: other old harpers...

Edward Bunting collected a lot of tunes from the playing of Patrick Quin.

The tunes from ms33(1) are a group of tunes written very fast and sketchily, upside down in the back of the notebook. They seem to have been notated as live field transcriptions by Edward Bunting, on a trip he made to Quin’s home in Co. Armagh around 1800. One has an attribution to Quin; all of the others are tunes that are stated elsewhere to have been collected from Quin.

Title and attribution in ms	Bunting ms ref & folio no.	Collette Moloney index item number
I’ll Follow You Over the Mountain
Quin Harp	Manuscript annotation in Bunting 1809, p. 25, London BL Add ms 41508	Not in Moloney
from Quin	ms12, f71r	12/199
	ms33(1) f32r	33(1)/57
Marbhna no Cumha
Quin Harp	Manuscript annotation in Bunting 1809, p. 25, London BL Add ms 41508	Not in Moloney
death song / from Quin	ms12 f71r	12/201
	ms33(1) f33r	33(1)/60
A Gradh Luighe Lamh Liom - Love Be Near Me
Quin Harp	Manuscript annotation in Bunting 1809, p. 33, London BL Add ms 41508	Not in Moloney
from P. Quin	ms33(3) f3r	33(3)/6
Suisheen Buidhe (the yellow blanket)
from Quin the harper in 1806	ms13 f31v	13/70
from Paddy Quin in 1802	ms27 f23r	27/51
P.Quin, Harper, 1806	1840 index p.xi	1840 p.58
Port Gordon / Ballyhaunis (more...)
Quins 1st part	ms33(1) f14r	33(1)/29
from Quinn	ms12 f75r	12/207
Mailí Bhán
Molly Vaun	ms33(1) f31v	33(1)/56
Burns March (more...)
Pretty Peggy / Quins Burns March	ms33(1) f32r	33(1)/58
Sin Síos an Ród a d’Imigh Sí (that is the road she went)
Sion Sios a Rod a dImigh Si	ms33(1) f32v-33r	33(1)/59
Lochaber no More
Lochaber	ms33(1) f33v	33(1)/61
Géidhe Fiáine
Wild Geese	ms33(1) f34r	33(1)/62
from Paddy Quin the harper in 1800	ms27 f18v-19r	27/40
brava bold Paddy Quin	ms12 f56r	12/168
from Paddy Quin the harper in 1792	ms13 f8r-v	13/18
Do be Bean Uasal, or there was a young lady
Do be Bean Uasal, or there was a young lady / from Paddy Quin the Harper at Portadown in 1797	ms27 f31r	27/72
Planxty McDermott
Planxty McDermott / from Paddy Quin in 1802	ms27 f23v	27/52
A Lundubh agus a Chiarsath
A Lundubh agus a Chiarsath. The blackbird & the thrush. / from Paddy Quin the harper in 1802	ms27 f34v	27/79
Fanny Dillon
Fanny Dillon / from Paddy Quin County Armagh	ms33(2) f19r	33(2)/35
Carolans Cap
Carolans Cap / from Paddy Quin County Ah	ms33(2) f25r	33(2)/47
Nancy Cooper
Nancy Cooper / from Paddy Quin County Armagh near the Blue Ston	ms33(2) f25v	33(2)/48
Staca an Margaidh
Staca an Margaidh, or Market Stake / from Paddy Quin County Armagh	ms33(3)/5 f2v	33(3)/5
Feallagon
Feallagon / from Paddy Quin County Armagh	ms33(3) f9r	33(3)/17
The Rocks of Pleasure
The Rocks of Pleasure	List of tunes played at Belfast meeting, 1792. Bunting, 1840, p.64
Carolan’s Devotion
Carolan’s Devotion	List of tunes played at Belfast meeting, 1792. Bunting, 1840, p.64
Grace Nugent
Grace Nugent	List of tunes played at Belfast meeting, 1792. Bunting, 1840, p.64
Patrick’s Day
Patrick’s Day	“‘fixed it’ for the harp”. Bunting, 1840, p.82
Patrick Quin, harper, 1792	1840 index, p.ix	1840 p.67
O Molly Dear
Patrick Quin, harper, 1800	1840 index p. ix	1840 p.87
Planxty Reilly
Harp Quin	Manuscript annotation in Bunting 1796, p. 25-6, London BL Add ms 41508 f84r-v
Aileen a Roon
	List of tunes payed by Quin at the the first Meeting of the Subscribers of the Irish Harp Society, in Dublin. Dublin Evening Post 15th July 1809
O’Rorke’s Noble Feast
	List of tunes payed by Quin at the the first Meeting of the Subscribers of the Irish Harp Society, in Dublin. Dublin Evening Post 15th July 1809
The Fairy Queen
	List of tunes payed by Quin at the the first Meeting of the Subscribers of the Irish Harp Society, in Dublin. Dublin Evening Post 15th July 1809

I have not seen the ms12, 13, or 27 settings.

Thanks to Sylvia Crawford for telling me about some of these references. Thanks to Karen Loomis for showing me the annotated Bunting prints.