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O'REILLY'S LAMENTATION (Uaill-Cuma Ui Ragallaig). AKA - "Caoine for O'Reilly." Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). G Major (O'Neill): F Major (Bunting). Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The melody was collected by Edward Bunting (1773-1843), educated as an organ and piano player in Belfast and renowned as the first systematic collector of Irish folk music. Bunting remarks (Ancient Music of Ireland, 1840, p. 92):

The O'Reilly, in commemoration of whom this melody was arranged, was Maolmordha, or Miles, sirnamed "The Slasher," probably son of Maolmordha Dha, or Miles "the handsome," who was "the Queen's O'Reilly" in the reign of Elizabeth. Miles "the Slasher" was colonel of horse in the army commanded by Lord Castlehaven in the wars which followed the rebellion of 1641, and was slain valiantly defending the bridge of Finea against Monro's Scotch, in 1644.--See Castlehaven's Memoirs.)

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Bunting (Ancient Music of Ireland arranged for the Pianoforte), 1840; No. 144, p. 106. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 272, p. 47.

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