Author: peadar

The Mouse’s Reel (2:31)

We had a mouse in the kitchen that appeared to my better half late one night.  There was a bit of a fuss until his visit ended.   In this tune I could see him sticking out his head and wondering would he chance a dash across the room.   The last line sees him doing so and disappearing down into darkness.  This mouse may be gone but he is not forgotten.

Click here for score     The Mouses Reel.mus

In Praise of Connie (3:37)

My friend Connie O Connell and I have a gig every Thursday night in the Mills pub in Baile Mhúirne with another friend, Eibhlín de Paor.  We are nearly always joined by the man of the house, Don Ó Laoghaire, as well as Seán Ó Croinín and others.   In the last Triúr

album I had a tune called “Waiting for Connie” which had come to me when I was early one Thursday night but this one is insurance in case anyone should think I was intimating Connie was late – he wasn’t.

Click here for score     In Praise of Connie.mus

The Éigse Slide

We recorded the cd Triúr Arís during the week preceding Éigse Dhiarmuidín in Cúil Aodha  (always the first weekend in December). This slide gets its name from the Festival as it came together during that recording session.

Click here for score     The Éigse Slide.mus

The Hops Store

This tune was first recorded on a small cassette for an exhibition in the Guinness Hop Store in 1977.  The artist was a good friend called Lily Van Oost from Belgium.  She lived in the Black Valley in Kerry.  She was invited to assemble an exhibition of her wool sculptures for the comparatively new Guinness Hop Stores exhibition halls at the time.   She asked me to provide music as a backdrop to her exhibition.  This tune was one played in that recording.  The lads in U2 provided the money to record it and the resulting 500 cassettes each had a rough picture including a sheep to which I glued some real wool.

The Hops Store.mus