Denis Murphy's Slide

This slide is tied to Denis Murphy of Gneeveguilla, County Kerry, one of the best known fiddlers of the Sliabh Luachra district on the Cork and Kerry border. He recorded it for Radio Éireann in 1949 with accordion player Johnny O'Leary, and the Chieftains put it on Chieftains 3 in 1973.

It goes by many other names, among them "The Dark Girl Dressed in Blue," "The Gleanntán" and "Julia Clifford's," after Murphy's sister. Its first part is nearly the same as part of the Scottish "Marquis of Huntly's Highland Fling," and it is also played as a reel called "The New Post Office." Not to be confused with "Denis Murphy's Polka."