Firstly Carolan wrote songs rather than tunes. The lyrics to all but one of these were in Irish, not English. Donal O'Sullivans book contains the one English lyric he found. Thee are a number of English language versions, O'Rourke's Noble Feast is one I remember, in Bunting's collection. But as I indicated above, the Catriona Rowsome book is the one that has brought together as many as possible sets of words with their airs. English interpretations given (see the link above for the complete blurb0
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