Annotation:Celia O'Gara
Tune properties and standard notation
CELIA O'GARA (Sighile ni Ghadharadh). AKA and see "The Kilruddery Hunt," "The Irish Hunt," "Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle." Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Mixolydian/Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A song, "The Kilruddery Hunt," was written to this air in 1744 by Thomas Mozeen and Owen Bray of Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin. It soon became enormously popular, according to Grattan Flood (1906), and was called by Ritson "The Irish Hunt" (who incorrectly ascribed it to St. Leger). Kane O'Hara used the tune in his "Midas" in 1760. The "Kilruddery Hunt," was a "prime favorite" of the Irish patriot Theobald Wolfe Tone, and Thomas Moore used the air in 1813 for his song "Oh had We some Bright Little Isle of our Own."
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 366, p. 63.
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