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"Planxty George Brabazon (Second Air)", in Gaelic "Pleraca Seoirse Brabason",
is an Irish air in 4/4 time and G Major. The parts are played: one part (O Canainn),
AB (Complete Collection, O'Neill/1850) or AABB (O'Neill, Krassen, Skye).
According to O'Carolan biographer Donal O’Sullivan, there was no definitive evidence for its being composed by O'Carolan, although stylistically, it would seem to be a composition of his. After the Jacobite rebellion “George Brabazon” was re-titled in Scotland "Prince Charlie's Welcome to the Island of Skye" in honor of Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender). It was printed in Brody's Fiddlers’ Fakebook (1983), Carlin's Gow Collection (1986) (appears as "Isle of Skye"), Ossian Publications' Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes (1984), S. Johnson's The Kitchen Musician No. 3: Carolan (1983) (revised 1991, 2001), MacDonald's The Skye Collection (1887) (appears as "Prince Charlie's Welcome to the Island of Skye"), Ó Canainn's Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland (1995), Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976), Slater's Clawhammer Banjo Solos (1979), O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) and O’Sullivan's Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper (1958). It was recorded by The Chieftains on Chieftains II (1969) and The Chieftains Live (1977), Derek Bell on Carolan's Receipt (1975), Yankee Ingenuity on Kitchen Junket (1977) and John McCutcheon on The Wind That Shakes the Barley (1977). |