Martin Mulvihill Sheet Music: Ryan's Lane

Martin Mulvihill (b. 1919, Ballygoughlin, West Limerick) was an icon in New York’s Irish music community.  A member of the Mid-Atlantic Region of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s Hall of Fame and a National Heritage Fellow, Mulvihill came to the US in 1965 and started teaching music in the late 1960s at the suggestion of his cousin Jerry Mulvihill, who ran a successful dance school.  Mulvihill took to teaching full time in 1971, at which point he was affiliated with the Traditional Irish Musicians Association’s Peter McNulty Club.  After the establishment of Comhaltas in the America, Mulvihill became very involved with the organization.  Over the years, hundreds of students passed through his school, with dozens of them competing annually in the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann.  Mulvihill died in 1987.