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 DERRY CRAIG WOOD. AKA and see "Father Grady's Trip to Brocagh," "Mulvihill's Reel (2)]." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. A three-part reel composed around 1960 by the late Galway cleric and accordion/piano player Father Patrick "P.J." Kelly. The third part is similar to Kelly's "Rossmore Jetty"/"Father Kelly's (Reel) [1]." Accordion player Charlie Mulvhill's name became attached to the tune (which is sometimes miss-attributed to him) and, because of several recordings identifying the tune with him, an alternate title often is "Mulvihill's" "Charlie Mulvihill's." The title "[[Father Grady's Trip to Brocagh" has also been given to the tune, with composition credited to Charlie Mulvhill, although that title appears to be (perhaps) a mistaken borrowing of whistle player Josie McDermott's reel "Father Grady's Visit to Bockagh."    Source for notated version: banjo player Tommy Finn (Marlow, Ballymote, Sligo) [Flaherty].  Printed sources: Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1994; p. 48.  Recorded sources: Gift 10007, Arty McGlynn & Nollaig Casey - "Lead the Knave." Shanachie 79005, De Danann - "Mist Covered Mountain" (appears as "Mulvihill's).

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