School: Naomh Pádraig, Carn Domhnaigh (roll number 14359)
- Location:
- Carndonagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 43
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- (continued from previous page)music, and as he walked on he met a man who was playing a violin. He was playing a beautiful tune, and Pat, who had a good ear for music soon learned it.
When he was about a mile from home he heard a slight noise behind him, and on looking round he saw a little fairy who told him not to play that tune at any time or in any place.
One night Pat went to a Ceilidhe in a neighbouring house. There was another fiddler there who boasted that he could play more tunes than Pat. Although Pat was not a man for bragging he would not admit that the other man could play better than he; so the two men started playing.
They played, and played, but at last Pat could not think of a tune to play other than the "fairy-tune," so, rather than call himself beaten he played it. When he finished it a terrible thing happened. A crowd of fairies invaded the house and took Pat away, and no one has seen or heard of him since.
- Collector
- Joseph Doherty
- Gender
- Male
