Annotation:Caitlín Ní Huallachain
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CAITLÍN NÍ HUALLACHAIN (h-Uallachain). AKA - "Caitilín Ní Uallacháin (Kathleen O'Houlihan)," "Katty Nowlan (1)," "Kitty Nowlan." Irish, Air (3/4 time, "Marked time, not too slow"). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A song and harp tune of the Jacobite period in favor of the Stuart rebellion. The title is an allegorical name for Ireland.
Source for notated version: the 1861 manuscript collection of James Goodman, an Anglican cleric who collected primarily in County Cork [Shields].
Printed sources: Shields (Tunes of the Munster Pipers), 1998; No. 14, p. 9.
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