Annotation:Devanney's Goat
Tune properties and standard notation
DEVANNEY'S GOAT (Gabhar an Dubhánaigh). AKA - "Devanny's." Irish, Reel. D Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Flaherty): AABB (Breathnach, Harker/Rafferty, Miller). Bronx flute player Jack Coen attributes the composition of the tune to Tommy Whelan, a flute player and composer from the Woodford, east Galway, area; a member of the old Ballinakill Ceili Band. Devaney was a neighbour of Whelan's, indeed, the owner of a goat who was nibbling on the vegetables in Whelan's garden when the tune came to him.
Source for notated version: fiddler Paddy Ryan, 1970 (Co. Roscommon, Ireland & Birmingham, England) [Breathnach]; flute player Harry McGowan (b. 1937, Carrowmore, County Sligo) [Flaherty]; New Jersey flute player Mike Rafferty, born in Ballinakill, Co. Galway, in 1926 [Harker].
Printed sources: Breathnach (CRÉ II), 1976; No. 267, p. 138. Flaherty (Trip to Sligo), 1990; p. 157. Harker (300 Tunes from Mike Rafferty), 2005; No. 95, p. 30. McGuire and Keegan (Irish Tunes by the 100, vol. 1), 1975; No. 48, p. 13 (appears as "Devanny's"). Miller (Fiddler's Throne), 2004; No. 145, p. 95. Treoir, vol. 39, No. 4, 2007; p. 30.
Recorded sources: BMG 09026 63377-2, Cherish the Ladies - "At Home" (1999). Claddagh CCF21, Noel Hill - "The Irish Concertina." Gael-Linn CEF 103, Frankie Gavin - "Croch Suas E/Up and Away" (1983. 1st tune of "Eddie Moloney's Set"). Green Linnet GLCD 1160, Patrick Street - "Cornerboys" (1996). Skip Healy - "Farewell New England Shores." See also listings at: Alan Snyder's Cape Breton Fiddle Recording Index [], Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [].