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'''DIRGE OF CAROLAN, THE.''' AKA and see "[[Fair Maid of Wicklow (The)]]." Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "The Dirge of Carolan" is the name of a song in honor of Irish bard Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tannahill] (1774-1810), set to the air "Fair Maid of Wicklow." The first stanza of Tannahill's poem goes:

'''DIRGE OF CAROLAN, THE.''' AKA and see "[[Fair Maid of Wicklow (The)]]." Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "The Dirge of Carolan" is the name of a song in honor of Irish bard Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tannahill] (1774-1810), set to the air "Fair Maid of Wicklow" in '''The Works of Robert Tannahill''' (1838). The first stanza of Tannahill's poem goes:

''Ye maids of green Erin, why sigh ye so sad?''

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''For the soul of sweet music now sleeps in his urn.''

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In Tannahill's volume '''Poems and Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect''' (), the indicated air for his verses is "[[Ballimony]]."

In Tannahill's volume '''Poems and Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect''' (1815), the indicated air for his verses is "[[Ballimony]]/[[Ballymoney]]."

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-'''DIRGE OF CAROLAN, THE.''' AKA and see "[[Fair Maid of Wicklow (The)]]."  Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "The Dirge of Carolan" is the name of a song in honor of Irish bard Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tannahill] (1774-1810), set to the air "Fair Maid of Wicklow." The first stanza of Tannahill's poem goes:
+'''DIRGE OF CAROLAN, THE.''' AKA and see "[[Fair Maid of Wicklow (The)]]."  Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "The Dirge of Carolan" is the name of a song in honor of Irish bard Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tannahill] (1774-1810), set to the air "Fair Maid of Wicklow" in '''The Works of Robert Tannahill''' (1838). The first stanza of Tannahill's poem goes:
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 ''Ye maids of green Erin, why sigh ye so sad?''<br>
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 ''For the soul of sweet music now sleeps in his urn.''<br>
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-In Tannahill's volume '''Poems and Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect''' (), the indicated air for his verses is "[[Ballimony]]."
+In Tannahill's volume '''Poems and Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect''' (1815), the indicated air for his verses is "[[Ballimony]]/[[Ballymoney]]."
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