Yes I know about single jigs but the tune in question is an ordinary double jig. I say “ordinary” because, at least at the sessions I’ve been to, single jigs are never played.
It’s probably around 70% reels and 25% double jigs and 5% hornpipes, polkas, and slip jigs.
0% single jigs, mazurkas, airs, Carolan, etc etc.
The GHB world doesn’t make the single jig/double jig distinction, and jigs show a mix of the two Irish patterns. Also it’s rather common for GHB jigs to have a dotted quarternote occupy an entire beat, which is rather rare in ITM. Yes a bar of a 6/8 jig often has just two notes in the GHB world.
Well, be that as it may, I don’t see how the setting in question is non-Irish in any way, nor that a whistle player couldn’t play it that way and still sound traditional. That setting is perfectly fine for my fiddle, and many of the tunes I play have more 1/4-18th note groupings than that. Of course, my playing and that of my teacher are influenced quite a bit by Kerry music.
