Rattigan’s reel

Source: Kilfenora Ceili Band
Transcription: Gian Marco Pietrasanta

The B music seems to be that of Tom Ward’s Downfall.
Here is the B part more usually played with Rattigan’s:

e|dg g2 gedg|eaag ageg|f/2e/2dad bdad|f/2e/2dad gfed|
BG G2 EGDf|g2 fg edBA|G2BG DGBG|AGFA G2:|

Milesnagopaleen, now the abc is correct.
I must give up smoking strange things…
Jeremy,
please change the sheetmusic.

This one is more like the setting I’m used to hearing, with that bit that goes down to the low G in the 1st part.

|: G | G | G | D |
| Em | C | G | D G :|
|: G | Am | D | D |
| Em | C | G | D G :|

X: 1
T: Rattigan’s
N:(from the playing of Joe Bane) http://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/rilganainmjoebane.html
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
2GbA GAbG|2gfg edbA|GAbG GAbG|AbAG FDED|
bG2G EGDG|2G2g edbA|GAbG GAbG|AGFA 3Gz:||
dg2g gfed|eaag aged|gded gded|ezgg gfed|
bG2G EGDG|2G2g edbA|GAbG GAbG|AGFA 3Gz:||

Something very strange going on with some of the settings above… I have a cracking sligo/fiddle version that can be used to seriously injure/upset all forms of accordion players (or at least make them say Very Bad Words - worse than “feck” or “bottom”!!!). Apparently a two-octave jump is tricky to do accurately at speed. Who’d have thought?

This is the corrected version (setting 4) that whererhys messed up 3 years ago by putting the note lengths before the notes instead of after. It’s a transcription that Peter Laban made from a recording of Joe Bane (linked in an earlier comment) with rolls and cuts omitted. I’ve added the rolls back in.

And this is the Joe Bane setting as commonly played these days in East Clare. It’s very close to Mary MacNamara’s recording on Blackberry Blossom (one difference is that she plays the low G twice and the high g once instead of vice versa at the octave leaps). Note that this setting will clash with the more common one that goes low and has the two octave leap, mainly because this version stays on the G chord instead of going to the D in the 3rd bar of the B part.

From the Connacht Ceili Band

As Gian Marco’s version but going down to the low G in line 2.

Who has the evidence that this was a composition of Larry Redican ? No indication above that I can see.

According to the Traditional Tune Archive, which lists this tune under the title “Larry Redican’s Reel (1)”:

“According to the late Galway and New York flute player Jack Coen, this was the first tune composed by Irish-American fiddler and banjo player, Larry Redican (1908-1975).”

Fair enough. I’m prepared to accept that. Thank you DonaldK. It would help if when someone ascribes authorship to a tune, they would add it to the “Discussion” notes.

For what it’s worth, I agree, Kenny. Apart from anything, in this case anyway, it allows one to make an assessment regarding the level of provenance.