Annotation:Hugh Kelly

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HUGH KELLY (Pleraca Ua Ceallaig). AKA and see "Fly Not Yet," "Planxty Kelly," "Planxty O'Kelly." Irish, Planxty (6/8 time). G Major (O'Neill): A Major (Clinton): A Mixolydian (O'Sullivan). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (O'Sullivan): AABB (O'Neill). Composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) for Hugh Kelly of Ballyforan, although whom this might be is not known as the name is so common. Donal O'Sullivan believes this Hugh Kelly was actually the son of Hugh Kelly of Ballyforan (1656-1689). Sir Thomas Moore used the melody for his song "Fly Not Yet," published in his Irish Minstrelsy, vol. 1 (1806). The air was employed by English composer Thomas Hook in his 1808 opera The Siege of St. Quentin ("What tho' 'tis true I've talked of love"). A song beginning: "When the chill sirocco blows" by William Shield for his opera Robin Hood (1784) has an initial four bars that are similar to "Hugh Kelly." The air was adapted by Thomas Moore for his song "Fly Not Yet."

Source for notated version: John Mulholland's Collection of Ancient Irish Airs (Belfast, 1810) [O'Sullivan].

Printed sources: Clinton (Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs), 1841; No. 44, p. 22 (appears as "Planxty Kelly"). Complete Collection of O'Carolan's Irish Tunes), 1984; No. 76, p. 65. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 238. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 674, p. 122. O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 71, pp. 140-141.

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