Lady Gethin
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Lady Gethin" is an Irish planxty in C Major. This tune was probably composed by blind Irish harper<br> Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) and although Donal O'Sullivan (1958) in his definitive work could<br> find no incontrovertible evidence for its origin, he believes it can be stylistically attributed<br> to him. <br> The subject, suggests O'Sullivan, was Margaret Eames, the wife of Sir Richard Gethin, 3rd Baronet,<br> whom she married around 1725. She was the daughter of Colonel Eames. At the time of her marriage<br> Sir Richard was the High Sheriff of County Sligo. She survived her husband by a few years and died<br> before 1778. <br> The earliest source this tune is the P.W. Joyce manuscripts (Dublin).<br> Joyce noted the tunes in 1912, "copied from a small MS book lent me by Mr. Patrick McGrath...Dublin.<br> Many of the airs were very incorrectly written and required careful restoration. The names are<br> generally in both English and in (correct) Irish." O'Sullivan says the titles suggest they were<br> noted in Connacht, probably County Mayo. <br> It was printed in Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes (1984), O'Sullivan's Carolan: The<br> Life, Times, and Music of an Irish Harper (1958) and Ossian's The Complete Works of O'Carolan (1989). <br> It was recorded by Derek Bell on Carolan's Receipt (1987).<br>
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