Belles of Tipperary

More players know this D reel as "The New Policeman" than by its proper name, though that title isn't really its own — "The New Policeman" belongs to a separate tune in O'Neill's collection, and Matt Molloy is credited with attaching the name to this reel as Tommy Peoples played it. The tune is likely meant to be "The Belle of Tipperary," a young woman, though it has long been printed without the 'e'; Philippe Varlet traces its first recording to a 1934 78 by fiddler Frank Quinn, cut as "Bells of Tipperary." It belongs to a broad family of related reels that takes in Miss Monaghan's. Kevin Crawford plays a flute setting on his "D Flute Album."