The traditionals of yesterday could be the source for your classic of tomorrow. This is Micho Russell’s version of the famous march “The Battle of Aughrim”. It is not very different from the common version but I love Micho’s phrasing of the tune and thought I’d post his way of playing it.

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They withdrew with heavy losses: the Jacobites pursued them downhill, capturing colonels On their left centre, the Williamites advanced across low ground exposed to Jacobite fire and took a great number of casualties. After The Battle Of Aughrim - A Minor (pdf) More Resources.

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This reel appears in O’Neill’s book as “Tit for Tat”. Many of their infantry regiments were seriously depleted: on 22 July, Bellew's regiment was listed as having 240 soldiers, having lost all its senior officers and sergeants; Slane's regiment 140 soldiers, and Louth's just 28, although some stragglers arrived later.According to O Ciardha, the battle "made a searing impression on the Irish consciousness".While Aughrim remained a powerful symbol of disaster for Irish Catholics, it was also the focus of The battle was the subject of a 1728 tragic drama by Robert Ashton, The Aughrim battlefield site became the subject of controversy in Ireland over plans to build the new Modern scholarly opinion is divided on the significance of St Ruth's death, as the critical breakthrough on the Jacobite left occurred prior to it: even at the time the O'Callaghan (ed.) This is Micho Russell’s version of the famous march “The Battle of Aughrim”. Macariae Excidium, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, p.443O'Callaghan (ed.) Padraig Lenihan on Aughrim Part 2. Free Violin Sheet Music – After The Battle Of Aughrim – Fiddle. No matter what your style of choice happens to be, there are plenty of lessons to be learned from working on traditionals. The duration of song is 03:09.

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1 Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Battle of Aughrim, song . Macariae Excidium, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, p.453O'Callaghan (ed.)

The Loyalist song The Sash mentions Aughrim. Macariae Excidium, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, p.440O'Callaghan (ed.)

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The Williamite assault in this area, led by St John's and Tiffin's regiments and the Huguenot foot, was driven back into the bog by the Irish foot fighting with clubbed (reversed) The Jacobite right and centre holding firm, Ginkel tried to force a way across the causeway on the Jacobite left, where any attack would have to pass along a narrow lane covered by Walter Burke's regiment from their positions in Aughrim castle.Most commentators, even those sympathetic to William, judged that the Irish foot had fought exceptionally well, and some accounts including James II's After Saint-Ruhe's death the Jacobite left, devoid of a senior commander, collapsed very quickly: the regiment of Horse Guards left the field almost immediately, followed shortly by the cavalry and dragoon regiments of Luttrell, Sarsfield and Galmoy briefly tried to organise a rearguard action but as in many battles of the period most of the Jacobite casualties occurred in the pursuit, which was ended only by darkness and the onset of mist and rain.In addition to the rank and file the Jacobite casualties and prisoners included many of its most experienced infantry officers: the dead included brigadiers Barker, O'Neill and O'Connell, and colonels Moore, An eyewitness with the Williamite army, George Story, wrote that "from the top of the Hill where [the Jacobite] Camp had been," the bodies "looked like a great Flock of Sheep, scattered up and down the Countrey for almost four Miles round.

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