Annotation:O'Reilly of Athcarne

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O'REILLY OF ATHCARNE. AKA - "O'Reilly of Athcarn." Irish, Planxty. G Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by Turlough O'Carolan. The tune is contained in the music manuscript collection of mid-19th century cleric Rev. James Goodman of County Cork, an uilleann piper and collector. The tune is attributed to Carolan by collector Henry Hudson, on the strength of the assertion by Edward O'Reilly in The Dublin Magazine (May, 1842). The opening bars are reminiscent of the folk-song "Cruiskeen Lawn." Words to the tune are attributed by O'Reilly to Uilliam Ó Ciaráin (William Kearns), a poet from County Meath, and a younger contemporary of the harper's, written in honor of O'Reilly of Oristown, near Kells, County Meath. See also "John O'Reilly (1)" and "John O'Reilly (2)" for more Carolan compositions for the family.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 138, p. 97. O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times, and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958; No. 138, p. 175.

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