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I’ve always been drawn to the sound of walking marches, after first having heard some played in the 1960s by Sean Ó Riada and his group, Ceoltóirí Chualann. Then one evening in the 1980s, I began composing one, and named it after the Scottish Jacobites who fought on the Irish side during the Williamite Wars of the late 1600s.
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