Annotation:Lamentation of Aughrim (The)

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LAMENTATION OF AUGHRIM, THE. Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The Battle of Aughrim, July 12th 1691, fought near Ballinasloe, County Galway, pitted the Irish forces fighting for James II, against the English. The Irish Commander, General St. Ruth, and some 7,000 of his troops were killed, the "flower of their army and nation." It was a devastating defeat, and the cause of much sorrow in Ireland. Moffat (Minstrelsy of Ireland, 1897, p. 354) says the air "probably dates from the terrible battle..." Thomas Moore used the melody for his song "Forget not the Field" in his Irish Melodies, vol. vii" (1818).

Source for notated version: copied from McCullough's Collection of Irish Airs, Dublin, 1821 [O'Neill].

Printed sources: Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 3), 1859; No. 274, p. 136. O'Neill (Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody), 1922.

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