Many of the tunes reveal a sympathy with the defeated but still powerful Jacobite cause, surprising in a publication produced in the heart of ascendancy Dublin.

A lot of the same sort of Jacobite tunes were published for the same sort of market in London and Edinburgh at around the same time, so this is not surprising at all.

Not sure I'll get one for me personally but I'll make sure the National Library of Scotland gets it.

The date is interesting. The German flute didn't really take off in Britain until the following year, as far as I know. Is this the first tune collection from the British Isles in the 18th century to mention it? Do the tunes all work on it? (It's also rather surprising they didn't mention the recorder - there must have been many more recorders than German flutes in Dublin at the time).