The Flogging Reel
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Flogging Reel", in Gaelic "An Seisd Buailteac" or "Ríl na Lasctha", also<br> known as "The Floggin'", "The Flagon" or "The Flaggon" (Scottish), "Humors of<br> Bantry Bay", "The Newry Lass" or "Slashing Reel" is an Irish reel in G Major.<br> In some versions the 'C' part is in G Mixolydian.<br> The parts are played ABC (Breathnach, Cole, Mallinson, Mitchell),<br> AABC (O'Neill/1915 & 1001, Taylor), AABCC (Allan's, Gow), AABBC (O'Neill/1850)<br> or AABB'CC (O'Neill/Krassen).<br> As "The Flogging Reel" the tune is a popular reel in County Donegal.<br> Breathnach (1976) says it is related to "The Fife Reel". O'Neill (1913)<br> mentions this tune in an anecdote about uilleann piper Patrick Ward, a 19th<br> century farmer-piper of Blackbull, Drogheda. Ward was an accomplished fiddler<br> before he picked up the pipes, but learned, as most did, by ear. His first<br> lesson in writing music was not without difficulty;<br> "having neither pen nor ink, he was told by his teacher, 'a dark man', to burn<br> a furze stick and write with its calcined end. This expedient served fairly<br> well. From that day to this he says that whenever he takes a pen in his hand to<br> write music his mind reverts to "The Flogging Reel" which was the first tune<br> set down in the manner mentioned". The reel was remembered by Kilmaley, County<br> Clare, fiddler, flute player and uilleann piper Peader O'Loughlin as one of the<br> tunes he listened to his father, a flute player, play in the 1930's.<br> The title appears in a list of tunes in his repertoire brought by Philip<br> Goodman, the last professional and traditional piper in Farney, Louth, to the<br> Feis Ceoil in Belfast in 1898 (Breathnach, 1997)<br> and a standard notation transcription was included in the c. 1890's music<br> manuscript collection of "Professor" Patrick D. Reidy, a dancing master<br> resident in London who taught at Gaelic League functions. The tunes in Reidy's<br> MS were collected from musicians who accompanied dancers at the time. The<br> melody was also cited as having commonly been played for country dances in<br> Orange County, New York, in the 1930's (under the title "Flogging Reel").<br> It was printed in<br> Breathnach's CRÉ II (1976) ("Ril an Lasctha" {The Flogging Reel}),<br> Breathnach's The Man & his Music (1996),<br> Carlin's The Gow Collection (1986) (appears as "The Flaggon"),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> The Dublin Magazine, November, 1842,<br> Giblin's Collection of Traditional Irish Dance Music (1928),<br> P.M. Haverty's One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2 (1858),<br> Mallinson's 100 Essential (1995),<br> McDermott's Allan's Irish Fiddler,<br> Mitchell's Dance Music of Willie Clancy (1993),<br> O'Neill's O'Neill's Irish Music (1915) (appears as "The Flogging Reel"),<br> O'Neill (Krassen) (1976) (appears as "Flogging Reel"),<br> O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) (appears as "Flogging Reel"),<br> O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907) (appears as "The Flogging<br> Reel"),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883) and<br> Taylor's Music for the Sets: Yellow Book (1995).<br> It was recorded by John J. Kimmel (1916),<br> Ciaran Tourish on Down the Line (2005),<br> John J. "Dutch" Kimmel (accordion player from New York City) (1929),<br> The Chieftains on The Chieftains Live (1977),<br> Joe Cormier on The Dances Down Home (1977) (Appears as "The Flaggon"),<br> Mick Coyne on Both Sides of the Coyne,<br> Brendan Mulvihill, accompanied by Mick Moloney on The Flax in Bloom,<br> Traditional Irish Music,<br> Boys of the Lough on Regrouped and The Session,<br> Cherish the Ladies on Out and About and many others.<br>
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