Carolan's Draught
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
The air was printed in Petrie’s Music of Ireland (1882)<br> with this note: “The following spirited harp melody was<br> obtained from an old MS. music-book sent to me by<br> Father Walsh, P.P. of Sneem, in the county of Kerry; and I<br> found a second setting of it in an extensive manuscript<br> collection of tunes made, within the present century, by<br> Patrick Carew, a county of Cork piper, the use of which has<br> been kindly allowed me by my friend Mr. Richard Dowden,<br> Alderman of Cork. Though hitherto unpublished, and, apparently,<br> unknown to preceding collectors, the peculiarities of its style,<br> and of its flow of melody, can leave no doubt as to its being a<br> genuine composition of the eminent composer whose name it bears:<br> and as it seems to be known only in Munster, it may perhaps be<br> regarded as one of the many tunes composed by the bard during<br> his sojourn in that province; and which, unlike the majority<br> of his Connaught tunes, do not appear to have been ever collected<br> during their author’s lifetime”.<br>
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