Annotation:Farewell to Connacht
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FAREWELL TO CONNACHT (Slán le Connachta). AKA - "Farewell to Connaught." AKA and see "John Bowe's No. 2," "Maid of Erin (The)." Irish, Reel. D Mixolydian/Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB (Mallinson, Tubridy): AABB' (Breathnach): AA'BB' (Taylor). "Farewell to Connacht" was first published by O'Neill in Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody (1922, 329). Breathnach (1985) notes that "Maid of Erin (The)" is a County Leitrim title. The tune is similar to "Colliers (The)" and "Ravelled Hank of Yarn (The)." Frankie Gavin mentions that the tune was not recorded until the LP era of the late 1960's. The old Tulla Céilí Band recorded it in a medley with "Ballinasloe Fair." Mark Simos comments on an interesting relationship between "Farewell to Connacht" and old-time tune "Billy in the Lowground (1)" [1], which he observes are "two different harmonic 'readings' of literally the same melodic notes," one in D mixolydian and one in C major. The second strain of "Farewell to Connacht" is shared with that of Rev. Luke Donnellan's "O'Connell's Daughter."
