Source: John McFadden in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland¹

Similar to The Bloom of Youth (MI1215; DMI492) although it does not appear with that title in collections older than O’Neill’s². O’Neill’s account of McFadden from Irish Minstrels and Musicians can be found here.

1. Francis O’Neill, O’Neill’s Music of Ireland: Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Melodies. Chicago, Lyon & Healy, 1903, #1359, p.254.
   Also appears in:
   Francis O’Neill, The Dance Music of Ireland (1001 Gems). Chicago, Lyon & Healy, 1907, #613, p.111.
2. Paul DeGrae, Sources of tunes in O’Neill’s Music of Ireland and Dance Music of Ireland, 2017 (rev.2021). https://www.irishtune.info/public/oneill-sources.htm (accessed 23/1/23)