Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 3740 (Rattigan's Reel)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel32AABBG Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Rattigan's Reel
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of my transcription of how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording SltSdt (details in the Discography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Rattigan's Reel / Rattigan's / Rattigans / Rhattigan's / Rhattigan's Reel / Redigan's / Redican's / Larry Redican's / Ríl an Riabhaigh / Reavy's Reel (1st in set The Inisfail on KCB 6) (composed by Larry Redican aka Larry Redigan)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc. They are listed in order of when they were recorded.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
19601.22#1[SltSdt] various. Seoltaí Séidte. Setting Sail. View album details
~19743#1[KCB 3] [The Kilfenora Ceili Band]. [The Kilfenora Céilí Band]. View album details
200217#1[LAC] Tom and Kerry Barrett. Lios A'Cheoil. Traditional Irish Music. Tom Barrett (fiddle), Kerry Barrett (fiddle).View album details
~200213#1[KCB 6] The Kilfenora Céilí Band. Live in Lisdoonvarna. Anne Rynne (fiddle), Conor McCarthy (accordion), Garry Shannon (flute), Tim Collins (concertina), Sheila Garry (fiddle), Fintan McMahon (piano), Anne Marie McCormack (fiddle), John Lynch (banjo), Sean Griffin (drums), Anthony Quigney (flute).View album details

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune under any title whatsoever – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are very similar to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

As tune #45 in volume 1 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #79 in [Cr] Matt Cranitch. The Irish Fiddle Book. [available]
As tune #190 in [FT] Randy Miller. The Fiddler's Throne. [available]
As reel #219 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1960
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