West End, The Item Info
- Title:
- West End, The
- Sound Cloud:
- Description:
- I recorded Mrs. Galvin playing this hornpipe at a concert over fifty years ago in County Clare. Jerry O'Sullivan plays it on this track with a slightly different arrangement. This tune is sometimes attributed to the nineteenth-century Newcastle fiddle player and composer James Hill, and it appears in William Honeyman's The Strathspey, Reel, and Hornpipe Tutor. In parts of New England, it is played as a reel for contra dancing.
- Publisher:
- Séamus Connolly, Boston College Libraries
- Creator:
- O'Sullivan, Jerry
- Type:
- Some transcriptions are based on historical source recordings. More info.
- Subjects:
- Folk dance music Hornpipes Uilleann pipe music Galvin, Ellen
- Playlist:
- Playlist 08
- Collection:
- Hornpipes
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- O'Sullivan, Jerry, "West End, The", The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, accessed July 10, 2025, https://library.bc.edu/ds/connolly/document/448.html.
- Reference Link:
- https://library.bc.edu/ds/connolly/document/448.html
Rights
- Rights:
- This website was created through a partnership with Séamus Connolly and the Boston College Libraries (2016). All materials on this site may be freely shared and adapted according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.