Roscommon Reel

A three-part reel that travels under a knot of titles, most of them traceable to a single 1937 recording. The Donegal fiddler Hugh Gillespie cut it in New York that year as the second tune in a medley he called "Master Crowley's," paired with "Miss Patterson's Slipper" and issued on Decca — and the set's names stuck to the tune itself. According to Reg Hall, the Crowley of the title was one of two brothers, Cork-born uilleann pipe makers working in New York, with no known link to the better-known Cork pipemaker Tadhg Crowley.