Annotation:Dublin Lasses (2)
X:2 T:Dublin Lasses [2] M:C L:1/8 R:Reel B:P.H. Hughes -- Gems from the Emerald Isle (c. 1860's, No. 76, pp. 17-18) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Emin B,EEF GBAG|FDAD BDAD|GFEF GABc|dBAF GE E2:|| gfef gbag|fdad bdad|gfef gbag|fede fe e2| gfef gbag|fdad bdad|gfef gfec|dBAF GE E2||
DUBLIN LASSES [2] (Gearrchailiú Bhaile Átha Cliath). AKA and see "Dublin Reel (2) (The)," "Eight and Forty Sisters," "Maids of Galway," "Murtough Molloy," "Reel (84)," "Tie the Ribbons (2)," "Walls of Limerick (2) (The)." Irish, Reel. E Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Breathnach): AA'BB'(Kerr). The melody is a member of a large and varied tune family. No relation to "Dublin Lasses (1)". O'Neill prints the tune under the title "Murtough Molloy," while Elias Howe gives it as "Dublin Reel (2) (The)." A distance version of the reel was entered as an untitled tune (see "Reel (84)") into Book 2 of the large c. 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim fiddler and piper biography:Stephen Grier (c. 1824-1894). The second strain of "Dublin Lasses [2]" appears as the second strain of "Eight and Forty Sisters" in Darley & McCall's Feis Ceoil Collection of Irish Airs (1912). Other related tunes are "Dowd's/O'Dowd's Favourite," "Flowers in May (The)," "Ladies Pantaloons (The)," "Scotch Hunt (The)" "Trim the Bonnet" and "Rover (4) (The)" (Breathnach, 1996). See also an untitled related tune in Breathnach's CRÉ II (1976), No. 286. The famous Sliabh Luachra fiddler Denis Murphy played this tune under the "Dublin Lasses" title. Leitrim flute player John McKenna had it as "Maids of Galway."
