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Thread #4555 Message #3186612
Posted By: MartinRyan
13-Jul-11 - 08:03 AM
Thread Name: Londonderry Air's original (Gaelic?) words
Subject: RE: Londonderry Air's original (Gaelic?) words
Not looking for a row.... honest!
Jane Ross, who noted the song from an itinerant fiddler, was Irish.
George Petrie, the (Irish) collector, gave the tune the title "Londonderry Air" in his Ancient Music of Ireland published in 1855.
There is (at least) one set of words in Irish set to the tune and still sung regularly. See earlier posts re Maidin i mBéara. It's not a translation, of course.