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Thread #2760   Message #11933
Posted By: Bruce
07-Sep-97 - 03:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Lorna Doone + Dierdre o' the Sorrows
Subject: RE: LYR.REQ.: LornaDoone & Dierdre o' th' Sorrows
My recollection is that this is the Dierdre that married the Sons of Usnoth, and were exiled from Ireland to Scotland. I forget whether the sons of Usnoth were killed there or after a return to Ireland. An old Irish tale, about which a song was made. No Lorna Doone here, though

Tune is "Deirdre's Lamentation for the Sons of Usnoth Irish" in O'Farrell's Pocket Companion, II, c 1811. Verses and music in Bunting's 1840 collection.