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O'Rourke's

reel

Key signature: Amixolydian

Submitted on May 25th 2001 by Jeremy.

This tune has been added to 252 tunebooks.

Also known as O'Keefe's, Rogue's, The Wild Irishman, Within A Mile Of Dublin.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

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X: 1
T: O'Rourke's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Amix
|:ed|cAeA fAeA| cAeA dfed| cAeA fAeA| fage d2:|
|ef| g2 fg e2 ef| gefd ea a2| gefd edcd| eage d2 ef|
g2 fg e2 ef| gefd ea a2|bgaf gfed| eaaf gfed|

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O'Rourke's sheetmusic
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This is a fast paced tune with a Donegal/Scottish feel to it.

I find that triplets are the most effective way of adding "lift" to this tune.

# Posted on June 2nd 2001 by Jeremy

So, so far I've found two different tunes called Within A Mile of Dublin. They bear no real resemblance to each other,and we can find recordings of both tunes bearing the same name. (Na Connery's and the Chieftans call this one Within a Mile of Dublin, the latter recording it on "Water From the Well", Paddy Keenan calls it O'Rourke's. However, the Chieftans play BOTH the reels together and call them both O'Rourke's on their second album.)

We asked a recent immigrant from Dublin/Galway about the tunes, and he said he plays both of them, and that they're both called Within A Mile of Dublin. I'm going to ask Kevin Glackin about it when he gets here in a couple of days, but does anyone have any other clues?

Zina

# Posted on November 4th 2001 by Zina Lee

Actually the Chieftains call this tune O'Keefe's on their Irish Evening cd. Also, on Water from the Well, they play Within A Mile of Dublin the correct way. There is only one.

# Posted on August 20th 2002 by SPeak

You do like absolutes, don't you SPeak? *grin* According to Eoin O'Riabhaigh (I asked him shortly after that post), they're both called Within a Mile of Dublin, and he said it's not all that important what they're called anyway, so long as you can play the damn thing. Which is probably why the Chieftains let the name wander about as well.

zls

# Posted on August 20th 2002 by Zina Lee

I think this tune derives from Scottish reel "Sleepy Maggie": http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/787

# Posted on January 31st 2005 by slainte

This tune is linked from Larry Nugent's Two for Two, but it's not the Within a Mile of Dublin on the recording.

# Posted on July 20th 2005 by ElaineT

O'Rourke's

I learned this from a Boys of the Lough LP. tThey called it "The Wild Irishman" just to confuse matters. And it would confuse matters to add this name to the details, I think.

# Posted on January 7th 2007 by nigelg

DAWN IN THE HILLS OF IRELAND

How can I purchase the CD featuring Marty O'Keefe reciting DAWN IN THE HILLS OF IRELAND?

Patricia Lodes
gplodes@sbcglobal.net

# Posted on July 7th 2007 by gplodes

Confusion between Wild Irishman and O'Rourke's

It seems that the confusion is maintained by many. Paddy Glackin on In Full Spate (Rabharta Ceoil) (1991) calls it The Wild Irishman, and so does James Kelly on Traditional Irish Music (1996).
I believe possible the confusion originates from the Music From The Coleman Country recording where the two reels form a medley - played by Fred Finn, Peter Horan and many others - but the sleeve only mentionned The Wild Irishman.

# Posted on August 30th 2007 by f.pellerin

There shouldn't be any confusion as the one here is positively O'Rourkes (this is notated in David Lyth's Book 1) while the Wild Irishman is the one that follows it (F3E DFAF ...)

# Posted on August 30th 2007 by Bannerman

I found the Wild Irishman with some difficulty (in fact I thought it wasn't here and was going to post it) titled the Cat on the Roof. The tune which is at http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/844 is also known as the Irish Girl or occasionally as the Daisy Field (none of your Gan Ainms here - 3 for the price of one!).

# Posted on August 31st 2007 by Bannerman

O'Rourke's

First tune here by Paddy Keenan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R8zMsgIPA8

# Posted on October 12th 2009 by bogman

Paddy Keenan´s version (aprox.)

X: 45
T:O'Rourke's Reel
R:reel
H: See also "Westport Chorus", #331
Z:id:hn-reel-245
M:C|
K:Amix
|:ed|cAAe fded| cAeA dfed| cAAe fd (3Bcd| fage d2:|
g2fg ~e3f|gfed eaaf|gefd ed (3Bcd|fage d2ef|
g2fg ~e3f|gfed ea~a2|bgaf gfed|eaag aged||

# Posted on August 11th 2010 by Manu Novo

They misprinted the label

A knowledgeable person told me that Michael Coleman recorded "The Wild Irishman" and "O'Rourkes" but the printers got the names mixed up. Hence the ambiguity.

# Posted on June 3rd 2011 by hoopoe

Still happens

1st track on :
http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/3972

# Posted on June 3rd 2011 by Kenny

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