Saturday 13 July 2024
Tune of the Day: O'Gallagher's Frolics
Traditional Irish jig
This jig is taken from Francis O'Neill's celebrated collection Music or Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. The melody, set in major mode, predates O'Neill's publication by twenty years, appearing in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) as “Golliher's Frolic”. It is possible O'Neill altered the title to honor piper Charles O'Gallagher, a member, like O'Neill, of Chicago's Irish Music Club at the turn of the 20th century.