Hi, again, Maryrrf,

After leaving my last message I went back to the McCormack Home Page (www.jump.net/~pwworth) and checked the alpha listing of his recordings (www.jump.net/~pwworth/alpha-am.html#F). That listing shows two recordings by McCormack titled The Foggy Dew.

The first begins with the line "Oh, a wane cloud was drawn o'er the dim weeping dawn". It is, apparently subtitled An Ode To The River Shannon" and is attributed to Alfred Perceval Graves, set to an Old Irish Air and arranged by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. It was recorded in 1904.

The second begins with the line "A' down the hill I went one morn...". It is attributed to E. Milligan/C. Milligan Fox, and arranged by Spencer Clay. This was recorded in January of 1913.

Query to other 'Catters, could it be that the Contemplator's reference to McCormack's 1913 recording of The Foggy Dew is an indication that Canon O'Neill wrote his poem about the the 1916 Easter Rebellion so as to fit the earlier tune used by Milligan-Fox?

Robby