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“Captain O’Kane” is thought to have been composed by blind Irish harper
Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) for his friend Captain O’Kane (or O’Cahan),
a ‘sporting’ Irishman of a distinguished County Antrim family who was well-known
in his day as “Slasher O’Kane”. O’Carolan authority Donal O’Sullivan could find no attribution in any source to O’Carolan, but says the style is his. O’Sullivan also could find no further information on ‘Slasher’ O’Kane. I play this tune in a medley with:
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