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Thread #79307   Message #1435278
Posted By: GUEST
15-Mar-05 - 10:29 AM
Thread Name: Need some help with Trad music
Subject: RE: Need some help with Trad music
John Keegan Casey, 1846-1870 'risin' of the moon'

Gilgarry Mountain - unknown - tradition 18th century

Star of the COunty Down - Star of the County Down (as first published in Herbert Hughes' Irish Country Songs, vol 4(1936) having been possibly written by "Cathal Garvey 1866-1927"
According to Colm O'Lochlainn "Songwriters of Ireland in the English Tongue" The Star of the County Down was undoubtedly written by Cathal McGarvey 1866-1927,


Roddy McCorley - written by Ethna Carberry (AD 1866 - 1902). The tune is older.