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This is an old reel that I first heard many years ago at a Fleadh Cheoil where a group of session musicians were sitting in a dark pub. The sight of a dozen black pints is still in my memory as they played this reel. The tune slipped my mind for many years until a CD called ‘The Kitchen Recordings,’ with Sean O’Driscoll (banjo) and Larry Egan (two-row box) was mailed to me from Cork. Suddenly I was able to revisit the tune and get to know its melodic merits all over again.
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