Re: [Harp-L] Danny Boy

[Tom Baehr <tombaehr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought "London Derriere" was written by Nigel "Fatboy" O'Riorden  
of Buffalo, N. Y.

Tom
On Jul 16, 2007, at 12:29 AM, Glenn Weiser wrote:

> The authorship of "Danny Boy" is attributed to the Irish harper  
> Blind Rory
> O'Cahan, a nobleman of Ulster disposses of his land by the English  
> around
> 1600. The tune was originally known as the "Lament for Ulster." An  
> untitled
> version in G was collected in 1845 by Irish ethnomusicoligist  
> George Petrie
> in County Derry. The lyrics, though came later: one set,  
> "Londonderry Air,"
> by Thomas Moore in the 1850s, and the, next, the famous "Danny Boy"  
> lyrics,
> by Fred Weatherly (gasp! an Englishman) in 1913.
>
> Glenn Weiser