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"The Curlew Reel", also known as "The Curlews", "Darach de Brun’s" or "Road to Cashel" is an
Irish reel in B Dorian. The parts are played AABB. It was composed by Mullaghbawn, south
County Armagh, fiddler Josephine Keegan (b. 1935). Her composition was originally titled
"The Curlews" (plural), named for the Curlew mountains, a low range in County Roscommon and
County Sligo.
It was printed in Flaherty's Trip to Sligo (1990) and Miller's Fiddler’s Throne (2004). It was recorded by Josephine Keegan on The Keegan’s Tunes (2002), Johnny Whelan & Eileen Ivers on Fresh Takes (1987), Altan on Horse with a Heart (1989), John Whelan & Eileen Ivers on The Celts Rise Again (1990), Folan & Davey on Skin and Bow. |