PW Joyce gave over 180 Co Limerick tunes to antiquarian George Petrie, who published some 20 of them in his 1855 volume Ancient Music of Ireland.
An extract of The flannel jacket from Petrie's Ancient Music of Ireland (1882)
More of these tunes appear in an incomplete Petrie volume of 1882; in Francis Hoffmann’s Ancient Music of Ireland from the Petrie Collection Arranged for the Pianoforte; and in Charles V. Stanford’s The Complete Petrie Collection of Ancient Irish Music. PW Joyce also contributed the words and melodies of two songs to the 1897 Boosey volume Irish Folk-Songs, a collection of mostly original song-lyrics written by A.P. Graves and set to traditional melodies by Charles Wood.
