# The Fiddler of Dooney > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Fiddler_of_Dooney > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Fiddler_of_Dooney.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fiddler_of_Dooney > Source revision: 1243114070 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) The Fiddler of Dooney When I play on my fiddle in Dooney, Folk dance like a wave of the sea; My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet, My brother in Mocharabuiee. I passed my brother and cousin: They read in their books of prayer; I read in my book of songs I bought at the Sligo fair. When we come at the end of time To Peter sitting in state, He will smile on three old spirits, But call me first through the gate; For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance: And when the folk there spy me, They will all come up to me, With 'Here is the fiddler of Dooney!' And dance like a wave of the sea. -W.B. Yeats **"The Fiddler of Dooney"** is a poem by [William Butler Yeats](/source/William_Butler_Yeats) first published in 1892.[1][2] The word "Dooney" refers to Dooney Rock, a small hill overlooking [Lough Gill](/source/Lough_Gill) near [Sligo](/source/Sligo).[3][4] ## Influences The poem gives its name to a [fiddle](/source/Fiddle) competition held annually in County Sligo, first held in 1975.[5] The poem is set to music by [Angelo Branduardi](/source/Angelo_Branduardi) (on *Branduardi canta Yeats*, 1986). ## See also - [List of works by William Butler Yeats](/source/List_of_works_by_William_Butler_Yeats) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["The Bookman"](https://books.google.com/books?id=fuQ3I1rPKa4C&q=fiddler). Hodder and Stoughton. 1 November 1892. Retrieved 1 November 2021 – via Google Books. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Yeats, W.B.(1992). Yeats Collected Poems. Vintage Classics, pp. ix 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Dooney Rock"](https://sligotourism.ie/listing/dooney-rock/). *Sligo Tourism*. Retrieved 31 July 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["The Fiddler of Dooney"](https://poetryarchive.org/poem/fiddler-dooney/). *Poetry Archive*. Retrieved 31 July 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Sligo's Fiddler of Dooney contest an 'outstanding success'"](https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/lifestyle/sligos-fiddler-of-dooney-contest-an-outstanding-success/a1694804124.html). *Irish Independent*. 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2024. ## External links - [The collected public domain poetry of Yeats as an eBook](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/w-b-yeats/poetry) at [Standard Ebooks](/source/Standard_Ebooks) v t e W. B. Yeats Poetry Volumes The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889) The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) In the Seven Woods (1903) Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916) The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) The Tower (1928) The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) Poems "Adam's Curse" "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" "Blood and the Moon" "The Circus Animals' Desertion" "Down by the Salley Gardens" "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety" "Easter, 1916" "Ego Dominus Tuus" "The Fiddler of Dooney" "The Gift of Harun Al-Raschid" "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz" "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" "On being asked for a War Poem" "Politics" "A Prayer for My Daughter" "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" "The Rose of Battle" "The Rose-Tree" "Sailing to Byzantium" "The Scholars" "The Second Coming" "September 1913" "The Song of the Happy Shepherd" "Song of the Old Mother" "The Song of Wandering Aengus" "The Stolen Child" "Swift's Epitaph" "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time" "The Tower" "Under Ben Bulben" "The Wanderings of Oisin" "The Wild Swans at Coole" Plays Mosada (1886) The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) Diarmuid and Grania (1901) Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) On Baile's Strand (1903) The Countess Cathleen (1911) At the Hawk's Well (1916) The Resurrection (1927) Purgatory (1938) Other works The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical (1893; co-author) A Vision (1925) The Bounty of Sweden (1925) "The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows" Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 (editor) The Ten Principal Upanishads (1938, co-translator) People Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife) Anne Yeats (daughter) Michael Yeats (son) John Butler Yeats (father) Susan Pollexfen (mother) Jack Butler Yeats (brother) Elizabeth Yeats (sister) Lily Yeats (sister) Maud Gonne (muse) Related W. B. Yeats bibliography Rhymers' Club Dun Emer Press Cuala Press An Appointment with Mr Yeats Owen Red Hanrahan "Troy" Thoor Ballylee Samhain magazine The Speckled Bird --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Fiddler of Dooney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fiddler_of_Dooney) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fiddler_of_Dooney?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.