Annotation:O'Mealy's

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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).

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

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]

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