X:39
T:The Lamentation of Owen Roe O'Neill
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:90
R:Air
K:Bb
"Andante"GABc d3 c|Bcd=e f2 ef|gddc B2 AG|A2 GF D2 z2|
GABc d2 cB|cBAG F2 Ac|B2 AG AGAc|B2 A>G G2 z2||
GABc d3 c|Bcd=e f2 ef|g2 d2 edcB|A2 G>F F2 z2|
d>edB cccA|B>cBG AGFD|B3 G A3 F|G>FD^F G2 z2||
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% This fine composition is attributed to Carolan in Bunting's General
% Collection of the Ancient Irish Music, Dublin 1796; Hardiman's Irish
% Minstrelsy, London 1831; and Clinton's Gems of Ireland, London 1841.
% Grattan Flood, an eminent authority, states in his A History of Irish
% Music, Dublin 1905, that this "glorious lament was composed on the
% death of Owen Roe O'Neill in 1649", a date preceding Carolan's birth
% by twenty-one years. Owen Roe O'Neill, prince of Ulster, was a
% gallant military leader who vanquished the British forces at the
% battle of Benburb in 1646.