The Connemara Stockings reel

This is the Tune that is played under the names Redican’s & The Galway Reel around my way. To avoid more confusion i listed under the name that it shows up as in Bulmer & Sharpley’s. Will are you sure you didn’t mean to post this tune?
~b.

Hey Brad,
This is the tune in O’Neill’s (I like your setting better). I’ve never gotten this one solidly into my bag of tunes because I’d rather play Ships Are Sailing (essentially the same B Part).

I’ve seen a slew of tunes that go by “The Galway Reel,” and almost as many under Redican’s. Maybe we could post them all. The “Galway Reel” I posted earlier is one of the more unusual tunes by that name, which is why I gave it.

This is the first reel in the Kilfenora Reel set which is very popular in Clare down the years; the set was played by the great Kilfenora Ceili Band of the fifties (they took 3 successive All-Ireland titles in 1954, 1955 & 1956) and is also a favourite with the pesent Kilfenora Band who took the All-Ireland title in 1993, 1994 and 1995.

A vaiation of this called The Cunnamulla Stocking Jig is used in Australia for the dance the Flying Pieman.

to make it slightly less like Ships are Sailing in the Bpart try this variation “gfcd gfcd” instead of “fade fad2”

Just got back from three days of workshops at the Goderich Festival, and took a class on guitar/fiddle with Randal Bays & Daíthí Sproule. Randal played this tune down in D (Daíthí was in DADGAD) and here’s a bit transcribed from my recordings. Some interesting twists but staying true to a lovely tune.

X:1
T: Connemara Stockings
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: D
S: Randal Bays, Goderich Ontario 2007
|: d2 cd BAFE | DE{FG}FD {EF}EDB,A, | DEFA {c}BAed |1 cABc dABc :|2 cABc d2 Bc |
{d}cBFB dBfB | cAEA cAec | dBFB {d}cBfB | dcAc ~B3 c |
d2 {g}fe fded | caec ABcA | ~d3 A ~c3 A | ~B3 c dAFA |]

http://www.soundlantern.com/UpdatedSoundPage.do?ToId=23192
2nd tune in the set

Actually, this tune appears (set in the key of D) twice in the 1883 “Ryan’s Mammoth Collection” under the no-longer-familiar titles ‘Hobb’s Favorite’ and ‘Boston Rattlers’. It was apparently a well-known tune back in the nineteenth century. Many of the tunes in the Ryan book were picked up by O’Neill and retitled to become the tunes as we know them today.

me and my buddy play this as the second in the blackthorne reels set on past masters of irish dance…

Gary Shannon & Musicians / Dancers in Tokyo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs3lHkVXj5o

play video

Gary comments: “An interesting night for me. Surreal - a session in Tokyo in an Irish bar with 13 Japanese musicians and 8 Japanese doing the Plain Set while Willie Week happens 6,000 miles away! I hope to go back!”

It’s a great shame that I can’t tell you which musician I am and which girl I fancy….

Finally, a few years ago we found the name to this cheerful tune which has been completing several French Canadian bands’ tune sets at least since we first heard Eritage play it….Now it’s in our repertoire as well. Cheers to the Kilfenora Ceili Band!

“Connemara Stockings” / “The Westmeath Hunt” / “Rip/Tear the Calico”

“The Westmeath Hunt”
# Added by gian marco - December 16th, 2003
https://thesession.org/tunes/2269

“Rip/Tear The Calico”
# Added by Josh Kane - May 31st, 2002
https://thesession.org/tunes/719

O’Neill’s #732.

More commonly known as ;

https://thesession.org/tunes/614

from a Kilfenora session recording

Paddy O’Brien’s setting in C, on his album Mixing the Punch. This reel is never played in C in sessions but I love the setting of the second part and I was too lazy to transpose it in G ^^ (also, it sounds really well on the fiddle or on the concertina when reaching the lower notes.)