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'''FATHER KELLY'S (REEL) [1]'''. AKA and see "[[Rossmore Jetty (The)]]." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Harker/Rafferty, Mallinson): AABBCC (Flaherty). A composition of County Galway cleric Father Patrick "P.J." Kelly, who was for a time stationed on Fiji, but returned to Ireland. Although popularly called "Father Kelly's Reel," Kelly's name for the tune was "Rossmore Jetty," named for a pier on the River Shannon near his home town of Woodford, County Galway, where launches on the river would stop. Kelly went swimming from the pier as a child. Father Charlie Coen, also a Woodford native, says Kelly named many tunes for Woodford area places—Kelly’s composition “[[Ben Hill]]” is named for a feature on the opposite side of Rossmore from the jetty. The second part of the "Father Kelly's Reel (1)/Rossmore Jetty" is similar to the third part of "[[Mulvihill's Reel (2)]]," also a Kelly composition from 1960, originally titled "[[Derry Craig Wood]]." See also Kelly's "[[Sliabh Aughty March]]" for a similar tune. | |f_annotation='''FATHER KELLY'S (REEL) [1]'''. AKA and see "[[Rossmore Jetty (The)]]," "[[Speed the Plough (4)]]." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Harker/Rafferty, Mallinson): AABBCC (Flaherty). A composition of Graigue, County Galway, cleric Father Patrick "P.J." Kelly (1925-2006), who was for a time stationed on Fiji, but returned to Ireland. Although popularly called "Father Kelly's Reel," Kelly's name for the tune was "Rossmore Jetty," named for a pier on the River Shannon near his home town of Woodford, County Galway, where launches on the river would stop. Kelly went swimming from the pier as a child. Father Charlie Coen, also a Woodford native, says Kelly named many tunes for Woodford area places—Kelly’s composition “[[Ben Hill (1)]]” is named for a feature on the opposite side of Rossmore from the jetty. The second part of the "Father Kelly's Reel (1)/Rossmore Jetty" is similar to the third part of "[[Mulvihill's Reel (2)]]," also a Kelly composition from 1960, originally titled "[[Derry Craig Wood]]." See also Kelly's "[[Sliabh Aughty March]]" for a similar tune. | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=tenor banjo player Tommny Finn (b. 1964, Marlow, Ballymote, Co. Sligo) [Flaherty]; Kerry Elkin (Massachusetts) [Songer]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Bulmer & Sharpley ('''Music from Ireland, vol. 3'''), 1976; No. 1 (appears as "Father Kelly's No. 1"). Flaherty ('''Trip to Sligo'''), 1990; p. 48. Harker ('''300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty'''), 2005; No. 157, p. 48. Mallinson ('''100 Essential'''), 1995; No. 22, p. 9. Songer ('''Portland Collection'''), 1997; p. 78. '''Treoir''', vol. 38, No. 1, 2006; p. 27. | |||
|f_recorded_sources=Wild Asparagus - "Tone Roads." Shanachie Shan-79017, John & Phil Cunningham - "Against the Storm" (1980). | |||
|f_see_also_listing=Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/f02.htm#Fatkere]<br> | |||
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/f02.htm#Fatkere]<br> | |||
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/617/]<br> | Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [http://www.irishtune.info/tune/617/]<br> | ||
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FATHER KELLY'S (REEL) [1]. AKA and see "Rossmore Jetty (The)," "Speed the Plough (4)." Irish, Reel. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Harker/Rafferty, Mallinson): AABBCC (Flaherty). A composition of Graigue, County Galway, cleric Father Patrick "P.J." Kelly (1925-2006), who was for a time stationed on Fiji, but returned to Ireland. Although popularly called "Father Kelly's Reel," Kelly's name for the tune was "Rossmore Jetty," named for a pier on the River Shannon near his home town of Woodford, County Galway, where launches on the river would stop. Kelly went swimming from the pier as a child. Father Charlie Coen, also a Woodford native, says Kelly named many tunes for Woodford area places—Kelly’s composition “Ben Hill (1)” is named for a feature on the opposite side of Rossmore from the jetty. The second part of the "Father Kelly's Reel (1)/Rossmore Jetty" is similar to the third part of "Mulvihill's Reel (2)," also a Kelly composition from 1960, originally titled "Derry Craig Wood." See also Kelly's "Sliabh Aughty March" for a similar tune.
