Annotation:Conneberry Reel (2) (The)
X:1 T:Conneberry Reel [2], The M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel B:Rev. Luke Donnellan music manuscript collection (c. 1909, Oriel B:region, south Ulster) K:Ador AB|cBAc BGGB|AGEF GEDG|EA...
CONNEBERRY REEL [2], THE. AKA "Connaberry Reel." AKA and see "Finean Reel (The)." Irish, Reel (cut time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Conneberry Reel [2]" is contained in the music manuscript collection of curate and fiddler biography:Rev. Luke Donnellan (1878-1952), Oriel region, south Ulster[1]. Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor notes a similarity of the reel to "Star of Munster (The)."
The title also appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997). A version of the reel was entered as "Finean Reel (The)" in Book 2 of the 1883 music manuscript collection of County Leitrim musician biography:Stephen Grier.
- ↑ Donnellan researcher Gerry O'Connor came to believe the ms. is not the work of the curate but rather was originally compiled by an unknown but able fiddler over the course of a playing lifetime, probably in the late 19th century. The ms. later came into the possession of Donnellan, who was also a fiddler.