Sir Festus Burke
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Sir Festus Burke", also known as “Festus Burke”, "Planxty Sir Festus Burke",<br> "Sir Festus a Burca" is an Irish air or planxty in 2/4 time and D Major.<br> The melody, for which no words are extent, was composed by the blind Irish harper<br> Turlough O'Carolan. O'Sullivan (1983) notes that Sir Festus Burke was the 5th baronet of<br> Glinsk, County Galway, who succeeded to the title on the death of his father John Burke in 1721<br> (John Burke was the half-brother of Sir Ulick Burke, for whom O'Carolan composed another piece and <br> a lament). Sir Festus married the eldest daughter of the Earl of Clanricard, Lady Laetitia,<br> in 1708, though the union proved barren, and he died around 1730.<br> The melody was noted by the Irish collector Edward Bunting from the playing of harper<br> Charles Fannin in 1792.<br> It was printed in The Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, O'Neill's Music of Ireland:<br> 1850 Melodies and Ossian's The Complete Works of O'Carolan.<br> It was recorded by The Irish Tradition, Brendan Mulvihill, Derek Bell, Shelly Phillips and<br> others.<br>
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