Colonel Manus O'Donnell

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Theme code Index	1H2H7b7b 5125
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Composer/Core Source	Turlough O'Carolan
Region	Ireland
Genre/Style	Irish
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	A
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Dorian
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	One part
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Donal O'Sullivan
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Carolan: The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper
Tune and/or Page number	No. 126, pp. 169-169
Year of publication/Date of MS	1958
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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 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].

Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 126, p. 90–91. O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper), 1958.