Ballykinler Reel Item Info
- Title:
- Ballykinler Reel
- Sound Cloud:
- Description:
- Here, Larry Redican introduces and then plays a reel he composed to memorialise his friend, the Dublin fiddle player Frank O'Higgins. Ballykinler, in County Down in the North of Ireland, was an army base used as an internment camp during the War of Independence in 1919.
- Publisher:
- Séamus Connolly, Boston College Libraries
- Creator:
- Redican, Larry
- Type:
- Some transcriptions are based on historical source recordings. More info.
- Subjects:
- Folk dance music Spoken word Reels Fiddle tunes O'Higgins, Frank Redican, Larry
- Playlist:
- Playlist 02
- Collection:
- Reels
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Redican, Larry, "Ballykinler Reel", The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, accessed June 4, 2025, https://library.bc.edu/ds/connolly/document/718.html.
- Reference Link:
- https://library.bc.edu/ds/connolly/document/718.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.