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I’m posting this today on Saint Patrick’s Day: The Londonderry Air; an ancient Irish tune long before an English Reverent wrote the lyrics Danny Boy to this tune!🙄


Edited to add:-* As the legend goes, it was from the town of Limavady in County Londonderry on The Causeway Coast in Northern Ireland that the blind harp player Denis O'Hampsey played it in the Belfast Festival in 1792 when English man Edward Bunting who was travelling around Ireland collecting harp tunes heard it & wrote it down. The tune was suspossedly composed by another blind harpish Rory Dall O’Cahan who passed it onto Denis before he died.
 
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Lanny said:
I’m posting this today on Saint Patrick’s Day: The Londonderry Air; an ancient Irish tune long before an English Reverent wrote the lyrics Danny Boy to this tune!🙄


Edited to add:-* As the legend goes, it was from the town of Limavady in County Londonderry on The Causeway Coast in Northern Ireland that the blind harp player Denis O'Hampsey played it in the Belfast Festival in 1792 when English man Edward Bunting who was travelling around Ireland collecting harp tunes heard it & wrote it down. The tune was suspossedly composed by another blind harpish Rory Dall O’Cahan who passed it onto Denis before he died.
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Just beautiful, truly beautiful.

Always brings a tear to the eyes; Lanny great info about the history of the tune.
 
This completes my homage to St Patricks Day.

 
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