- Style
- Celtic
- Tradition
- Irish
- Form
- Slide
- Key
- D Mixolydian
- Level
- 2
- Played on
- Fiddle and Mandolin
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Music
100bpm
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Chord chart
History
Dennis "Dinny" Delaney (1836 to 1919) was a blind piper from Ballinasloe in east Galway. He played at the Feis Ceoil in 1898 and was recorded on wax cylinders there and again in 1902, and one of the tunes he recorded was this one, which he called "The Hag in the Kiln." Players now name it after him.
Francis O'Neill wrote a sketch of Delaney in Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913). Though totally blind, he was known at the Ballinasloe fair as a sharp judge of cattle, and dealers sought his opinion while they traded.