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The Boys of Malin

Traditional

Style
Celtic
Tradition
Irish (Donegal)
Form
Reel
Key
A
Level
3
Played on
Fiddle and Mandolin

In the public domain. Source

Music

90bpm

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History

Malin is one of the northernmost villages in Ireland, on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, and nearby Malin Head is the island's northern tip. The reel is a Donegal favorite. Breandán Breathnach printed it in 1976 from a 1965 recording of fiddler John Doherty, who played the parts in the order ABCB, though most players now go straight through.

Paddy Glackin recorded it on his first album for Gael-Linn, and Donegal fiddlers Ciarán Tourish and Dermot McLaughlin played it on Fiddle Sticks in 1991.

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