I know Steve, grand parents in the local cemetery is the going rate here. But show me a reference for Patsy Geary the fiddle player that is not in the context of Clare music..

Anyway, slides are tricky. Recently I heard a slide version of Merrily kiss the quaker, not the usual Planxty one but one Johnny Leary often played. There was a exchange between the player (Noel Hill) and Aine O'Connell, who maintained it wasn't a proper slide. Whatever the way, it is a nice tune, I prefer it to the usual one, for now at least.