Paddy Fahey’s jig

This is a Fahey Jig that Dave Flynn tittles Paddy Fahey’s No. 14 on his album “Contemporary Traditional Irish Guitar”. I took several liberties with Octave transposition because Dave’s version is too wide for most instruments, even fiddle because he plays a bunch of low Ds. Sorry it’s a little odd but I’ll post a version that I think Paddy probably played it in with low Gs. My guess is that this is a tune that post dates the Holohan dissertation and it is the only recording of the tune that I could find. I do believe it is a genuine Fahey because I trust Dave Flynn and it looks and feels like a Fahey tune.

This is Dave Flynn’s version in the more manageable key of G Major.

From Kane Sisters - Side by side - track 10

Hello
I’m afraid this tune wasn’t composed by Paddy Fahey.
It looks too similar to Fr. Kelly’s Farewell (tune15616) composed Sean Ryan.
Nice tune!

X:2 above is the one given as Paddy Fahey’s Jig No 14 in the appendix to Maria Holohan’s thesis on PF’s music (Univ. of Limerick, 1995).

I am surprised to learn that Maria Holohan’s Thesis included a “Jig #14” as after jig #12 on page numbered 288, my copy presents the PF ’s Hornpipe #1 on page 289, and I checked there was no missing pages following these.
I don’t know where to find that jig #14 in Maria’s work, so please, Bazza, can you confirm what you wrote in your preceding post as I would be much interested in updating my knowledge.

As far as the present tune can be attributed to Paddy Fahey (Contrarily to the OP, I don’t recognize his hand in it), all depends of the date : did Sean wrote this before or after Paddy ? Have you evidences to assert that ?
This makes me think of Paddy’s reel #3 ’Maria Holohan’s index which is, in the first part all the less, very similar to Ed Reavy’s “Never Was Piping So Gay”. In this case, and taken in accound that Paddy was much younger than Ed and, I think, they rarely had the opportunity to exchange tunes, my opinion is that “Never Was…” was composed before reel #3. But that’s another subject !
Anyway, as the present tune and Sean’s one are identical, they should deserve to figure on the same entry on this site.
Jeremy ?

This is where one needs a way of withdrawing earlier postings . . . I offer embarrassed apologies for my note above about this tune. In my collection, I have jigs listed as Paddy Fahey’s No. 13 and No. 14, and thought that all the PF material I have came from the Holohan thesis. Not so. I’ve gone back to my pile of MSS and found that her list stops at No. 12. I can’t remember where I got the dots for 13 and 14, so shouldn’t have attributed them to that source.

I am not 100% satisfied this is Sean Ryan’s tune even though it appears in his composition book. The Kane sisters recorded it as Fahey’s and they knew him personally. My speculation/doubt is that one of the two forgot who wrote it over time. They played together quite a lot over the years. I also remember there was one other tune in Sean Ryan’s book that had a questionably composer credit.
Here is the Kane Sister’s versions with some corrections to the X:3 (third tune on tune page).
X:3
T: Paddy Fahey’s Jig No. 14
R: jig
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
P:Kane Sisters “Side By Side”
|:DGA B2G|~c2A BGE|DGB dcB|~c3 AGE|DGA B2G|cBA BGE|DGB dcB|1 cAF G2E:|2 cAF GBd ||
|:gdB GDB,|G,B,D GAB|~c3 Aag|f/g/af dfa|gdB GDB,|G,B,D GAB|~c3 AdB|1 cAF GBd:|2 cAF G2E |]