Category: Scóir cheoil / Musical scores

Bob and Bernie (reels)

This reel came about as a kind of thank you to artist friends Robert Rasmussen and Bernadette Ní Choitir. They called into the house to congratulate me on the occasion of the announcement that I had been named “composer of the year” by Irish television station, Tg4, in 2008. (Martin was named musician of the […]


Cór an Earraigh

I composed this tune for Geraldine O’Callaghan, a mighty fiddle player from Newmarket. She was doing her final B.mus examination and had to find an artist/composer and a piece of music and a piece of art connected to it. So hence this tune and a rather poorly executed oil painting of birds in a tree. […]


Jearóid

This should, by right, be spelled Gearóid because it arose out of playing at home with my friend Gearóid Ó Duinín. He plays the guitar and is from Cúil Aodha. There was a ‘Station” in the house and we had a barrel of draft Guinness in situ for the five yearly celebration. Gearóid and I […]


Musical Score – Naomh Gobnait

This was a piece I wrote to go with words written by Siobhán Bean Uí Mhuláin. I wrote it especially for the Cór Ban, and we’ve performed it many times throughout the years. Saint Gobnait (Naomh Gobnait), as many of you will know, is of particular importance here in Músgraí, as she finished her wanderings […]


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