Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Lady Irvine's Jig

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LADY IRVINE'S JIG (J8x32) 3C (4C set) Lewis N Derrick 75 years of Dancing in St Andrews

1- 8 1s ½ turn RH into prom hold facing down, dance down 2 places, drop RH and cross below 3s, cast up to 2nd place, own sides (2s step up bars 5-6)
9-16 LSh reels of 3 across, 1L LSh to 2M, 1M LSh to 3L. 1s end 2nd place own side
17-20 1s petronella turn to finish 1M between 3s facing up, 1L between 2s facing down. Set in lines of 3 across
21-24 1s petronella turn to finish in 2nd place on opposite side. 2s+1s+3s set on sides
25-28 1s turn 1¾ turn RH
29-32 1M+2s and 1L+3s dance LH across. 1s finish in 2nd place. 213

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)


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Dance Information

This dance was devised in memory of Lady Mabel Violet Irvine (né Mabel Williams), the first chairman of RSCDS St Andrews branch.

Mabel Williams (1880-1967) first met James Colquhoun Irvine (see Sir James Irvine's Jig) in 1899 as students in Leipzig and was married to him in 1905.

The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, St Andrews Branch, was formed in 1929 as the St Andrews and East Fife Centre of the Fife Branch of the RSCDS. The Fife Branch was dissolved in 1937 and St Andrews became a branch of the RSCDS in its own right, with Lady Irvine as the first chairman.

Lady Mabel Violet Irvine
Lady Mabel Violet Irvine, London, Before 1927


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