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(Pleraca Seoirse Brabason) - The composition has been credited to Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), for George Brabazon, a young bachelor.

Donal O’Sullivan (1958) included this piece in his definitive work on Carolan, but noted there was no definitive evidence for its being composed by the harper.

Some have attributed Captain Francis O’Neill’s over-zealotous assertion of tunes to O’Carolan as the source for naming him as composer, although stylistically it would seem to be a composition of his. After the Jacobite rebellion “George Brabazon” was re-titled in Scotland "Prince Charlie's Welcome to the Island of Skye" in honor of the Pretender; the first two parts of O'Neill's "George Brabazon" are the first two parts of Glasgow musician James Aird's four-part "Prince Charlie's Welcome" (printed in Selection of Scotch, Irish, English and Foreign Airs, vol. 3).

It also appears in the Gow’s Complete Repository, Part Second (1802) under the title “Isle of Sky” (sic), set as a Scots Measure and with some melodic differences in the second part. This is significant, for it predates the earliest Irish source (O’Neill) by a century (Irish piper O'Farrell's early 19th century London-published version of the tune, "Isle of Sky" was taken from Scottish sources, and provenance is indicated).

The Gows printed several O’Carolan airs, often with different titles.

...more at: George Brabazon - full Score(s) and Annotations

X:1 T:Planxty George Brabazon [2] M:C L:1/8 R:Air Q:”Moderate” S:O’Neill - Music of Ireland (1903), No. 657 Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G V:1 clef=treble name="1." [V:1] ge|d2G2 cBAG|d2G2 cBAG|e2A2 ABcd|e2A2 ABcd| edcB g2 fe|edcB cBAG|BAGE DEGA|B2G2G2|| ga|b2 gb a2 fa|g2 eg edcB|e2A2 ABcd|e2A2A2 ga| B2 gb a2 fa|g2 eg edcB|cBAG DEGA|B2G2G2||

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+|f_track=Planxty George Brabazon.mp3
-|f_pdf=Tulloc Gorum.pdf
+|f_pdf=Planxty George Brabazon.pdf
-|f_artwork=Tullochgorum.jpg
+|f_artwork=Carolan-harp-painting.jpg
-|f_tune_name=Tulloch Gorum
+|f_tune_name=George Brabazon
-|f_track_title=Tulloch_Gorum_(1)
+|f_track_title=George_Brabazon_(2)
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-|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/puirtaoque Puirt A Oque]
+|f_played_by=[https://soundcloud.com/gemkos Gemkos]
-|f_notes= The Reel of Tullochgorum, by Walter Gelkie (1795-1837).
+|f_notes= Turlough O'Carolan playing in an Irish "Big House".
-|f_caption=As with many popular old Scottish dance tunes various sets of port a beul (mouth music) words have been set to the melody.
+|f_caption=was the first O’Carolan work the seminal Irish band The Chieftains recorded, taken by leader and uilleann piper Paddy Moloney from the O’Sullivan collection his sister had given him in 1959 for his 21st birthday.
-|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/puirtaoque/tullochgorum Soundcloud]
+|f_source=[https://soundcloud.com/gemkos/planxty-george-brabazon Soundcloud]
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-|f_article=[[Tulloch_Gorum_(1) | '''Tulloch Gorum''']]
+|f_article=[[George_Brabazon_(2) | '''George Brabazon''']]
-The earliest record of this tune in more or less modern form is as a rant entitled "Tullochgorum" in Edinburgh writing master and amateur violinist David Young's Drummond Castle Manuscript, Part 2 (1734, No. 3).
+(Pleraca Seoirse Brabason) - The composition has been credited to Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), for George Brabazon, a young bachelor.
-It is also found in the James Gillespie Manuscript of Perth (1768). These early versions show little of the later strathspey rhythm, at least as noted, and appear as rants. However, in Robert Bremner's 1757 collection (2nd part, p. 16) it is set as a strathspey.
+Donal O’Sullivan (1958) included this piece in his definitive work on Carolan, but noted there was no definitive evidence for its being composed by the harper.
-Tullochgorm is also the name of a Scottish dance of twelve steps, and was one of several taught by Cape Breton fiddler Donald "the Tailor" Beaton of South West Margaree (who was an itinerant tailor).
+Some have attributed Captain Francis O’Neill’s over-zealotous assertion of tunes to O’Carolan as the source for naming him as composer, although stylistically it would seem to be a composition of his. After the Jacobite rebellion “George Brabazon” was re-titled in Scotland "Prince Charlie's Welcome to the Island of Skye" in honor of the Pretender; the first two parts of O'Neill's "George Brabazon" are the first two parts of Glasgow musician James Aird's four-part "Prince Charlie's Welcome" (printed in Selection of Scotch, Irish, English and Foreign Airs, vol. 3).
-Lore surrounding the dance says that the movements are supposed to relate to the small hills or knolls that lookouts stood upon, looking for the foes of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Supposedly they performed the dance while on duty, so as not to look suspicious.
+It also appears in the Gow’s Complete Repository, Part Second (1802) under the title “Isle of Sky” (sic), set as a Scots Measure and with some melodic differences in the second part. This is significant, for it predates the earliest Irish source (O’Neill) by a century (Irish piper O'Farrell's early 19th century London-published version of the tune, "Isle of Sky" was taken from Scottish sources, and provenance is indicated).
-One dance teacher (Fearchar MacMeil of Barra) said the Green Knoll was where Bonnie Prince Charlie and Flora MacDonald said farewell. There is no evidence to suppose that any of this is actually true; rather it smacks of Highland romanticism.
+The Gows printed several O’Carolan airs, often with different titles.
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