Bucks of Oranmore

One of the long, demanding D reels fiddlers and pipers reach for to show what they can do, "The Bucks of Oranmore" takes its name from the Galway town on Galway Bay. Francis O'Neill, in 1913, passed on an account of the Ballinasloe piper Patrick Flannery: having emigrated to New York around 1845, Flannery was playing the tune to a fascinated crowd on a Brooklyn street when he dropped dead in 1855. The Waterford piper Liam Walsh waxed an early recorded setting in London in December 1933, and the Traditional Tune Archive traces the reel back to the Scottish "Greig's Pipes."