Annotation:Peggy O'Hara's Wedding

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PEGGY O'HARA'S WEDDING. AKA - "Bainis Pheigí (Ni) Eághra." Irish, Air (2/4 time, "with spirit"). G Major/G Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The song of which this is the air is a comic or ironical description, in Irish, of the fun and rout at the wedding, very much celebrated in Connaught. A copy will be found in Hardiman's 'Iar Connaught,' p. 286: composed by MacSweeny, a Connaught poet. This air...(was) taken down by [collector William] Forde (c.1759-1850) from Paddy Conneely junior" (Joyce). Michael McSweeny (Micheal Mac Suibhne) was a Connemara poet who wrote in Irish.

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Printed sources: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 477, p. 264.

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