Callaghan’s reel

I find this to be a lovely simple tune. I think there’s only 9 notes in it. I learnt it at a session a few years ago when I was lucky enough to spend some time in Clare. I remembered it recently when I heard "In Good Company". They make it simple but exquisite.

I seem to remember that the "Callaghan’s" on Chieftains 2 and "Paddy In The Smoke" is one of the hornpipes of that name and not this reel.

That would be correct, no doubt. There’s a slight weakness with the cross-referencing of tune names on this site in that plenty of names have more than 1 tune attached to them, and all the different tunes with the name get linked. I don’t think that matters too much.

I like this simple setting from the lads on the opening track of A Clare Conscience. Just a few choice pick up notes (including a bowed triplet in the B part) to keep the melody flowing and provide lift. This is based on Aidan McMahon’s fiddling.

X: 1
T: Callahan’s
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
S: A Clare Conscience, Aidan McMahon and Anthony Quigney
K: Dmaj
dB|AFFE FEDE|~F3E FAdB|AFFE FEDE|FABA FEEB|
|AFFE FEDE|~F3E FAdB|AFFE FEDE|FAEG FD (3EFG||
|A3B A~F3|ABde feee-|fedB A/A/B dB|ABde fedB|
|AFAB A~F3|ABde feee-|fedB A/A/B dB|ABde fedB||

Also a nice hard-driving version of this on Planxty’s "After the Break." As with the Chieftains album, the link from the album listing is faulty—it goes to another tune called Now She’s Purring.

are the first and second parts always only played once ?

Yes

T:Callahan’s
M:4/4
L:1/8
S:aidan mcmahon-anthony quigney-donncha moynihan - a clare conscience
R:reel
Z:gian marco pietrasanta
K:D
dB|AFFE FEDE|~F3E FAdB|AFFE FEDE|FABA FEEB|
AFFE FEDE|~F3E FAdB|AFFE FEDE|FAEG FDE/F/G|
A3B A~F3|ABde fee2|fedc BcdB|ABde fedB|
AFAB A~F3|ABde fee2|fedc BcdB|ABde fedB|

John Faulkner and Dolores Keane play a lovely set on their album Sail Óg Rua starting with this tune:

The set goes: The Galtee Ranger / Dennis Murphy’s / The Doon Reel

Great set! :-)

Learned this tune from the Fiddlecase Books edition of Irish Traditional Fiddle Tunes.

http://youtu.be/AZa3HcQJZXc

play video

Again the odd title out here is from Josephine Keegan. This is what she calls the tune in her 2004 tunebook A Drop in the Ocean.