Annotation:Mrs. Anne MacDermott Roe
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MRS. ANNE MACDERMOTT ROE. AKA - "Nancy McDermot." Irish, Planxty (2/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). O'Sullivan's version is from Edward Bunting's Ancient Irish Music (1796), who noted it from the playing of harper Rose Mooney. It was composed, notes O'Sullivan (1958), on the occasion of the wedding of Henry McDermott Roe to Anne, the daughter of Colonel Manus O'Donnell, of Newport, County Mayo. See also note for "Annotation:Katherine O'More", where Anne is mentioned.
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Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 82, p. 68. Hughes (Gems from the Emerald Isles), 1867; No. 41, p. 11 (appears as "Nancy McDermot"). O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of and Irish Harper). 1958; No. 82.
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