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'''O'MEALY'S'''. Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. | '''O'MEALY'S'''. Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The composition is credited to uilleann piper and pipemaker, teacher and performer Richard L. O'Mealy (1873-1947), originally from a musical family of Westmeath, who worked in Belfast most of his adult life and who died in the city. Francis O'Neill includes a sketch of his life and a photograph in his '''Irish Minstrels and Musicians''' (1913, pp. 164-166). | ||
[[File:o'mealy.jpg|200px|thumb|left|R.L. O'Mealy]] The first strain of the hornpipe, however, is cognate with a few other hornpipes: "[[Hornpipe (9)]]" from R.M. Leavy's | |||
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Revision as of 16:40, 4 February 2018
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O'MEALY'S. Irish, Hornpipe. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The composition is credited to uilleann piper and pipemaker, teacher and performer Richard L. O'Mealy (1873-1947), originally from a musical family of Westmeath, who worked in Belfast most of his adult life and who died in the city. Francis O'Neill includes a sketch of his life and a photograph in his Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913, pp. 164-166).
The first strain of the hornpipe, however, is cognate with a few other hornpipes: "Hornpipe (9)" from R.M. Leavy's
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Treoir.
Recorded sources:
See also listing at:
Read Ronan Browne's well-researched article "The Life and Times of Richard Lewis O’Mealy" in the The Seán Reid Society Journal, volume 3 (2009) [1]