Mabel Kelly
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Mabel Kelly" in Gaelic "Maible Ni Cheallaigh" is an Irish air or planxty 3/4 time and D Dorian is<br> thought to have been one of the compositions of blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738),<br> it is one of seven airs he composed for people named Kelly. It was recorded by the Belfast Northern<br> Star of July 15, 1792, as having been played by one of ten Irish harp masters at the last great<br> convocation of ancient Irish harpers, the Belfast Harp Festival, held that week. A song as well<br> as an air, it was probably composed in honor of the only daughter and heiress of Laughlin Kelly of<br> Lismoyle, County Roscommon, according to Donal O'Sullivan (1958). She died unmarried in 1745.<br> O'Sullivan explains that Lismoyle is in the parish of Cam and barony of Athlone, close to the<br> Lough Funshinagh, which is west of Lough Ree. <br> It was printed in John and William Neale's A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes proper<br> for the Violin, German Flute or Hautboy (Dublin, c. 1726).<br> It was also printed in Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes (1984),<br> John & William Neal's A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (1724),<br> O'Sullivan's Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper (1958)<br> and Ossian's The Complete Works of O'Carolan (1989).<br> It was recorded by Ensemble Galelei on Music in the Great Hall (1992), The Chieftains on<br> James Galway and the Chieftains in Ireland (1986) and Derek Bell on Carolan's Receipt (1987). <br>
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