Annotation:Captain Kelly's Reel (2)
X:1 T:Captain Kelley’s Reel T:Captain Kelly's Reel [2] M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel S:Philip Carolan music manuscript collection N:Philip Carolan (c. 1839-1910, Crossmolina, County Mayo), a musically literate N:farmer and fiddler who compiled his ms. probably during 1863-1873. S:Angela Buckley, thesis, “A Critical Edition of the Irish Music Manuscripts of S:Philip Carolan c. 1839-1910, vol. 2”, Waterford Institute of Technology, S:2007, p. 17. Carolan ms. 1, No. 48 K:G A,|D2 ((3FED) D2 (dB)|AF ((3FED) EB, B,2|(DF)(EF) D2 (dB)|1AGFE D3:|2 AG FE D2D2|| d2 fd (ed)(fd)|A2 cA (eA)(cA)| d2 fd (ad)fd|(eg)(fe) fd d2| d2 fd (ad)(fd)|A2 ((3cBA) (eA)(cA)|(df)(eg) fdec|1 (dB).A.G FD D2:|2 (dB)AG FD D||
CAPTAIN KELLY('S) REEL [2]. AKA and see "Monsignor's Blessing." Irish, Reel. According to Brendan Brethnach (CRE III, No. 157), fiddler Kathleen Collins also called this tune "Captain Kelly's Reel", which Breathnach noted was a similar tune in O'Neill's collections. It may be also a mishearing of an alternate name for the tune, "Father Kelly's Reel (3)."
