Key signature: Edorian
Submitted on October 12th 2001 by Bloomfield.
This tune has been added to 63 tunebooks.
Also known as Carty's Pigeon, Dobbin's Flowery Vale, Drogheda, The Drogheda , The Drogheda Lasses, Eddie Moloney's Favourite, John Egan's, Mary Of The Grove, Paddy Doorhy's.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Eddie Moloney's Favorite
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
B2GB EBGB|A2FA DAFA|B2GB EBGA|(3Bcd ef gfed|
B2GB dBGB|A2FA dAFA|BAGF EFGA|(3Bcd ed Bdef||
~g3f gfed|~B3A (3Bcd ef|g2ef gefd|(3Bcd AF GE~E2|
~g3a gfed|B2AB GBFB|~E3F GFGA|(3Bcd ef gfed||
"variations"
B2GB EBGB|BAFA DAFA|B2GB EFGA|(3Bcd ed Bded|
B2BG EGBd|A2FA DAFA|B2GF GFGA|Bded (3Bcd ef||
~g3f gfed|A~B2A Bdef|~g3f gfed|(3Bcd Ad BE~E2|
gbef gefd|BdAB GBAG|EB,EF ~G3A|(3Bcd ed Bded||
Eddie Moloney's Favorite
I have seen this tune with various other names: Paddy Doorhy's, The Drogheda Lasses, Mary of the Grove. Frankie Kennedy recorded a haunting and beautiful version of this with a slow air on one of the early Altan CD's (Harvest Storm?). He plays it very slowly and with a strong "dotted" feeling, B2G>BE>BG etc. I knew it originally from Loesberg's "An Irish Tunebook, Vol. 2" (Ossian), where it has different measures 4 and 8, and a different B part. I think it is one of those tunes that can be started slow and than speeded up with a very nice effect.
# Posted on October 12th 2001 by Bloomfield
Tune names
Bloomfield, if you know this tune by other names, please add that information under "Details". Click on "Do you know this tune by another name" and add each name one at a time.
# Posted on October 12th 2001 by Jeremy
I Like it!
Nice tune, Bloomfield! I may transpose it to D dorian so I can play it with Tam Lin and the Gan Ainm reel that I usually follow it with. Or I may just leave it in E and make the jump!
Jeff
# Posted on October 12th 2001 by JeffK627
Jeremy, I added the tune names.
Jeff, could you post that Gan Ainm reel? And perhaps the version of Tam Lin you play? Thanks.
# Posted on October 12th 2001 by Bloomfield
Same name different tune
I was looking for Paddy Doorhy's as a jig and trying to get the sheetmusic, and when I saw it I realised it was a different tune to the one I heard. The jig I'm talking about is played by Martin O'Sullivan from Galway in his tape "The Glann Shore", I'm trying to learn it by listening. I'll try to find out under which other names is known, maybe it is already in this site! Anyway, I've learnt the reel and it is really beautiful.
irina
# Posted on October 14th 2001 by aniri
Composer
I can confirm that this is a Paddy Doorhy composition. I received an email from Paddy's daughter, Delia Flannery, and when I quized her on this tune, she said it was a composition of her father's.
# Posted on August 7th 2002 by Jeremy
John Egan's
The aug 2002 issue of Treoir lists this as "John Egan's Reel", together with another reel and a polka. Whoever did it, it's a nice reel.
# Posted on August 22nd 2002 by glauber
Not the one in Moneymusk
The "John Egan's" piece in the Moneymusk album is a hornpipe.
# Posted on August 22nd 2002 by glauber
Dobbin's Flowery Vale
According to the liner notes of Altan's "The First Ten Years," Frankie Kennedy got this tune as "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" from the singing of Robert Cinnamond from Glenavy, Co. Antrim.
Breathtakingly beautiful air (reel)! I was about to post this tune just before now and bother Jeremy again. I haven't realized it's already here. Great!
Paul McGrattan and Paul O'Shaughnessy play this tune quite fast in their "Within a Mile of Dublin," but I prefer playing rather slowly. Anyway, great, great tune.
# Posted on January 4th 2003 by slainte
John Egan's (aka. Dobbin's Flowery Vale)
This beautiful reel is also on Oisin MacDiarmada's "Ar An Bhfidil." It's played as a double reel.
# Posted on January 3rd 2006 by slainte
Great stuff
How could i have lived this long without playing this lovely reel?
# Posted on October 11th 2006 by cocus
Also recorded by Frankie Gavin & Alec Finn
Frankie Gavin follows 'The Pigeon on the Gate' with a version of this on the 'Traditional Music of Ireland' album. It's not listed on the original album sleeve, or the CD re-release.
# Posted on December 12th 2006 by Robert Ryan
Frankie Kennedy's version
I found this whilst browsing the net and have transferred it here, having made minor alterations to the abc (but not to the actual notes):
X: 1
T: Dobbin's Flowery Vale
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
Q: 120
S: Frankie Kennedy
R: slow reel
N: Frankie Kennedy recorded this using a Bb flute. This transcription is transposed and written for D flute
D: Altan - Harvest Storm
H: Frankie Kennedy learned this from a tape of a BBC recording of Robert Cinnamond of Glenavy, Co. Antrim
Z: Tom Madden
K: Edor
B2GB EBGB|A2FA DAFA|B2GB EBGA|(3Bcd ef gfed|
B2GB EBGB|A2FA DAFA|BAGF EFGA|(3Bcd ed (3Bcd ef||
g2gf gfed|BdA=c Bdef|g2gf gfed|BdA=c BEef|
gbaf gfed|B2AB GAFG|EDEF GzGA|AGdB gfed||
% Variation B-part bars 5-6 |g2gf gfed|B2AB GBFB|
# Posted on December 30th 2006 by Dow
This reel has nothing to do with the title "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" . Frankie learned the air of the song of that name from Robert Cinnamond, and stuck this reel after it. The only thing the 2 distinctly separate tunes have in common is that Frankie recorded them one after the other.
# Posted on December 30th 2006 by Kenny
Sorry, my bad. I should have spotted that. That'll teach me to cut and paste...
# Posted on December 31st 2006 by Dow
Thanks Kenny. I realised the mistake only recently.
# Posted on December 31st 2006 by slainte
AKA Carty's Pigeon (in D dorian instead of E dorian)
There's a nice version of this tune in D dorian on Pat O'Connor's first album The Green Mountain. He calls it Carty's Pigeon.
# Posted on November 1st 2007 by dlowder
The Finish group Rajaton does a deadly old version of this tune in seven part vocal harmony. It's quite something to hear.
# Posted on April 19th 2008 by dannym