The Flight of the Earls of Ulster refers to the march of the last of the old Irish leaders led by Red Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O’Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Donegal, who fled to Spain and then Rome after losing the Nine Years War against England. The slip jig is one we found in the mid-19th-century Petrie Collection (No. 512), where it is noted as a “Donegal tune from Mr. Allingham.” There is a lovely Scottish tune called The Piper’s Whim to which this tune seems related. The Leitrim Bucks is a reel Ivan used to play with fiddle player Tom Morrow when they did a weekly session in The Ferryman in Dublin in the early 1990s. It can be found in Martin Mulvihill’s First Collection (1986; No. 120) where Mulvihill notes the source as The Desmond Céilí Band, Castleisland, Co. Kerry, of which fiddle great Denis Murphy was a member.