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Turlough O'Carolan • O’Carolan’s Concerto
(Composed c. 1720)
When I was young, the standard narrative in terms of Irish music was that Ireland, being so isolated, had no contact with the baroque and classical music spreading across mainland Europe, and instead developed its own indigenous music, which is, of course, borne out by the unique and highly sophisticated traditional folk music of which we’re still rightly proud. However, as always, history is more complicated than that. It amazes me to think that, for example, Turlough O’Carolan, a blind harper, born in 1670 in Nobber, County Meath, was very much aware of and loved the music of Vivaldi and Corelli. Not only that, but in 1733, the great Italian violinist Francesco Geminiani visited Dublin, even opening a Concert Room and teaching studio. It was he who challenged O’Carolan to compose a piece in the style of Vivaldi and O’Carolan’s Concerto is the result. According to Joseph C. Walker, writing in 1789, on hearing the result
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Session in The Sandboat, Ballydehob 2015
We are very pleased that Ballydehob Session regular Uwe Hage has sent us some tunes on his flute! Uwe plays a wooden instrument, hand made by Eugene Lamb in Fanore, Co Clare in the 1970s. More on Eugene Lambe in a minute, but let’s hear the tunes. First up is an air by Turlough O’carolan – Eleanor Plunkett:
…Nellie of the flowing hair,
eyes the colour of green grass
And always up with the day, you lovely sunny one…
O’Carolan, again, composed Madam Maxwell:
O’Sullivan (1983) writes that Madam Maxwell was probably Judith Barry (1699-1771) of Newtown Barry, Co Wexford, daughter of James Barry. She married John Maxwell of Farnham, Co Cavan, in 1719, who later became MP for Cavan (from 1727-1756), High Sherriff (1739), and, upon succeeding to the estate of Farnham on the death of a cousin, became in 1756 the Baron Farnham of Farnham, Co Cavan, thus transforming Madam Maxwell into Lady Farnham.
Lastly from Uwe (for now) is a tune which we do hear in the session on occasion. It’s a hornpipe: The Boys of Blue Hill:
The question is – where is The Blue Hill? Knockgorm (or the Irish An Cnoc Gorm) literally means ‘Blue Hill’, and you wil