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Thread #13133   Message #1810173
Posted By: MartinRyan
15-Aug-06 - 06:02 AM
Thread Name: Origins: facts behind 'Roddy McCorley'
Subject: RE: Tune Req: facts behind RODDY MCCORLEY
Referring to the Etna Carbery poem/song, Joe (Offer) mentions in a recent thread now recycled to here, that "the tune is Sean South of Garryowen". This is true - but Roddy predates Sean! O'Lochlainn, in his More Irish Street Ballads book says that he doesn't know the origin of the "stirring march tune used" (or words to that effect.

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