Annotation:Colonel Manus O'Donnell

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COLONEL MANUS O'DONNELL. Irish, Planxty (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. Composed by blind Irish harpter wikipedia:Turlough O'Carolan (1670–1738). According to Donal O'Sullivan (1958), O'Donnell (d. 1736) was from Newport, County Mayo, who Elinor, daughter of Roger Maguire. It was in the Colonel's house that his daughter Anne married Henry MacDermott Roe, with Carolan in attendance, and on various other occasions Carolan composed tunes for the Colonel's sons. O'Donnell's elegy was written by another harper, Carolan's friend Charles MacCabe [O'Sullivan].

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