Annotation:O'Reilly's Greyhound
X:1 T:O'Reilly's Greyhound M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel S:O'Neill - Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1903), No. 712 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Amin gf|edBA G3A|Bdef g2 fg|edBA GABc|d2 ed BA A2| edBA G3A|Bdef g2 fg|edBA GABc|d2 ed BA A2|| ea a2 bgag|eaae g2 fg|ea a2 bgaf|gedB BA A2| ea a2 bgag|eaaf gfga|bgaf gfed|Bdef g2 fg||
O'REILLY'S GREYHOUND (Cú Uí Ragallaig). AKA and see "Galway Girl," "Missing Guest (The)," "Murphy's Greyhound," "Outdoor Relief," "Rolling Rocks of Glan (The)," "Tory Island Reel (The)." Irish, Reel. A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Neill): AAB (Deloughery). The tune was first recorded in 1927 by concertina player William Mullay (see annotation:Murphy's Greyhound), and, in the same year as "Galway Girl", by the Chicago-based Bowen's Irish Orchestra, a group that included father-and-son uilleann pipers Dennis Flynn Sr. and Jr. (along with Tom Cawley and Billy McCormick on fiddles and flute player Paddy Doran, albeit piper Joe Sullivan sometimes was in the lineup, replacing on of the Flynns. There is a picture of the group in Danahey & Hantschel's Chicago's Historic Irish Pubs,, 2011, p. 90 [1]). A setting appears Darley & McCall's Feis Ceóil Collection of Irish Airs (1914) as an anonymous reel (No. 37), collected from the Feis Ceóil competitions at the turn of the 20th century. Breathnach (1996) thinks it has a much better turn (second part) than does O'Neill's "Greyhound." County Clare fiddle player P.J. Hayes called the tune "Murphy's Greyhound," and Francis O'Neill printed the tune in one of his later publications (O'Neill's Irish Music, 1915) as "Missing Guest (The)." The reel was recorded in America in the 78 RPM era by vaudeville performers Ma McNulty and her family (Decca 12253B) under the title "Rolling Rocks of Glan (The)," one of some eighty sides recorded by the popular group.
