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from Compositions by Néillidh Ó Maolagáin
Barr na Cúille was the first tune that ever I composed around 1987 in memory of my father Tom (1915-1984) who came from the parish of Bornacoola in County Leitrim. He was a fiddle-player and piper who was involved in the the Dublin music scene fron the time he arrived there in 1935. He was one of the Committee members and driving forces in Cumann na bPíobairí Uilleann in the 1940’s and St Mary’s Music Club in Church Street from the 1950s to the 1970s. He was a
founding member of Na Píobairí Uilleann in 1968, the John McKenna Society and the inspiration behind the foundation of the Joe Mooney Summer School in County Leitrim.
