The Ballroom reel

A 1998 thread on The Irish Traditional Music List has this to say.

>Would anyone happen to have the ABCs for John Grady’s Downfall?
>It’s the reel before Floggin Reel on Brendan Mulvihill’s Flax In
>Bloom. Maybe it has another name?

Philippe Varlet wrote:

Brendan Mulvihill’s recording is the only source I have for it. According to
the notes, the tune came from James Neary (husband of Eleanor Kane) through
Johnny McGreevy and Johnny Cronin.

T:John Grady’s Downfall
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:reel
S:Brendan Mulvihill
K:D
DFAc d2Ad|~d2 fd edAc|d2A=c BAGF|EFGE FDCE|
DFAc d2Ad|~d2 fd edAc|d2A=c BAGF|1 EFGE FDDE:|2 EFGE FDD2||
d2fd egfd|g2Bg ec~c2|defd efge|f/g/aeg fedc|
~d3 e fdef|g2bg ec~c2| dAB/c/d AF~F2|1 EFGE FDD2:|2 EFGE FGEF||

To which Henrik Norbeck responded:

Jean-Michel Veillon plays a version of this tune on his record "E
Kead Nizan“. He calls it ”The Ballroom Reel", and it says in the
liner notes that Jamie McMenemy came up with this name. This version
is slightly different from the Brendan Mulvihill version that you
posted. Here’s an abc for it:

X:779
T:Ballroom Reel, The
R:reel
D:Jean-Michel Veillon: E Koad Nizan
Z:id:hn-reel-779
M:C|
K:D
DF (3ABc d2Ac|df~f2 ecAc|dcBA {c}BAGF|{A}GDEF {A}GFEF|
DF (3ABc d2Ac|df^ef =ecAc|dcBA {c}BAGF|GABc dAFA|
DF (3ABc d2Ac|df~f2 ecAc|dcBA {c}BAGF|{c}BA{c}AG {A}GF{A}FE|
DF (3ABc d2Ac|df^ef =ecAc|dcBA {c}BAGF|GABc d3A||
defg {b}afdf|~g2fg ecAc|defg {b}afdf|{a}ge{b}ag {a}fddc|
defg a2fd|gafd ecAc|dcBA {c}BAGF|GABc d3A|
defg {b}afdf|~g2fg ecAc|defg a2{b}af|(3gab ag {a}fdce|
defg ~a3f|g2{a}fd ecAc|dcBA {c}BAGF|GABc d2AF||

This is practically the same setting as the setting in the Petrie collection of “The Moving Bog”, a version of “Rachel Rae”