Betty MacNeill

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Theme code Index	13b56 53b3b3b
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Composer/Core Source	Turlough O'Carolan
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	NONE
Mode	Aeolian (minor)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Donal O'Sullivan
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Carolan: The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper
Tune and/or Page number	No. 91, p. 150
Year of publication/Date of MS	1958
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BETTY MACNEILL. Irish, Planxty (cut time). A Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). O'Sullivan (1958) records that Betty was the daughter of Captain MacNeill of Ballymascanlon, a few miles north-east of Dundalk, County Louth (for whom O'Carolan also wrote a tune, according to collector Edward Bunting, although now lost). O'Sullivan believes it possible that the harper stayed with the MacNeill's on the occasion of his visit to Louth to meet the poet Séamus Mac Cuarta (who also wrote a poem in praise of Betty).

Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 91, pg. 72. O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 91, p. 150.

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