Bridget O'Malley

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Theme code Index	113 535
Also known as	Brid Óg Ní Mhaille, Young Bridie O'Malley
Composer/Core Source
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	2 sharps
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	3/4
History
Structure	One part
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Peter Kennedy
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Folksongs of Britain and Ireland
Tune and/or Page number	No. 27, p. 82
Year of publication/Date of MS	1975
Artist	Biography:Silly Wizard
Title of recording	So Many Partings
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Shanachie SHAN-CD79016
Year recorded	1990
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BRIDGET O'MALLEY (Brid Óg Ní Mhaille). Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The original lyrics are in Irish Gaelic. One translation begins:

Oh Bridget O'Malley, you've left my heart shaken,
With a hopeless desolation I'd have you to know;
It's the wonders of admiration your quiet face has taken
And your beauty will haunt me wherever I go.

Peter Kennedy has a somewhat different translation. He recorded the song from Conal O'Donnell in Ranafast, County Donegal, although O'Donnell told Kennedy the song had come from a friend who was a Gaelic teacher in County Mayo. The friend had brought it back with him to Donegal, where it had become very popular. The earliest printed versions is in the Hardebeck manuscripts (1939, Government Publications, M.103, Dublin). See also Joyce's "Brigid O'Malley" and O'Neill's "Lough Sheeling (2)."

Printed sources: Johnson (The Kitchen Musician No. 5: Mostly Irish Airs), 1985 (revised 2000); p. 9. Kennedy (Folksongs of Britain and Ireland), 1975; No. 27, p. 82.

Recorded source: Shanachie SHAN-CD79016, Silly Wizard - "So Many Partings" (1990).

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T:Bridget O'Malley
M:3/4
L:1/4
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