Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
in Gaelic "Uaill Cuma Eogan Ruaid Ua Niall".<br> Gratten Flood, however, in his History of Irish Music (Dublin, 1905),<br> says that the Owen Roe’s “glorious” lament was composed soon after<br> his death, in 1649, predating O’Carolan’s birth by a score of years.<br> Owen Roe O'Neill (1582-1649), or, in Irish, <i>Eoghan Rua Ó Neill</i>, was<br> a member of the noble O'Neill family of County Tyrone who as a youth<br> left Ireland for military service on the Continent. He fought in the<br> Netherlands and distinguished himself as an officer in service with<br> the Spanish, but in 1642 at the age of 60 he returned to Ireland and<br> helped to mastermind the rebellion against the Stuart regime called<br> the Confederation of Kilkenny. O'Neill won an important victory at<br> Benburb in 1646, but died three years later of an illness at<br> Cloughouter, County Cavan, just before he was to campaign against<br> Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads.<br>
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