All the Ways to Galway
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"All the Ways to Galway" is an Irish reel in 4/4 time or polka in 2/4 time and<br> D Major and D Mixolydian. The parts are played AABB.<br> Breathnach (1976) finds the first printing of the tune in Glasgow publisher James Aird's<br> Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (1780-1803) under the title<br> "The Galway Girls". He quotes Crofton Crocker's The Popular Songs of Ireland (1839) which<br> states "'All the way from Gallaway, early in the morning' is the burden of a popular song<br> descriptive of the march of the Galway militia". The tune appears (in 2/4 time) in vol. 2<br> of the large mid-19th century music manuscript collection of County Cork cleric and<br> uilleann piper James Goodman and it was also entered into Book 2 of the large c. 1883<br> music manuscript collection of County Leitrim piper and fiddler Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894).<br> It was printed in Breathnach's Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. II (1976),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Deloughery's Sliabh Luachra on Parade (2010),<br> Harker's 300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty (2005),<br> P.M. Haverty's One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 3 (1859),<br> Hughes' Gems from the Emerald Isle (c. 1860's),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907),<br> Robbins Music Corp.'s The Robbins collection of 200 jigs, reels and country dances (1933),<br> Stanford/Petrie's Complete Collection (1905),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) and<br> White's Unique Collection (1896).<br> It was recorded by The Chieftains on Chieftains 3 and<br> The Bothy Band on Old Hag You Have Killed Me (1981).<br>
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