Lady Athenry
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Lady Athenry", (in Gaelic "Banthiarna Atha an Riogh") is an Irish air or planxty in 6/8 time and<br> G Major was composed by Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). Collector George Petrie thought this<br> composition, of all of Carolan's work, showed the most influence of Corelli and the Italian<br> composers. O'Sullivan (1958) determined that the subject of the air is Lady Mary Nugent (1694-1725),<br> eldest daughter of Thomas, 4th Earl of Westmeath, who married Francis Bermingham, 21st Baron of<br> Athenry, in September, 1716. The Bermingham's were descended from a knight commander in<br> Strongbow's Norman invasion of Ireland in 1170. Shortly after the death of his father in 1692<br> Francis Bermingham became Protestant, doubtless for the purpose of maintaining his estates, and<br> took a seat in the Irish House of Lords in 1713. He died in 1749, succeeded by his son Thomas<br> who died without issue in 1799. During Carolan's time Lord Athenry lived at Athenry Castle at<br> Bermingham Demesne, near Tuam, County Galway.<br> It was printed in O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903), O'Sullivan 's Carolan: The<br> Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper(1958) and Ossian's The Complete Works of<br> O'Carolan (1989).<br> It was recorded by Derek Bell on his Carolan's Receipt album.<br>
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