Annotation:Hugh O'Neill's Lament

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 HUGH O'NEILL'S LAMENT (Caoine Aeda Uí Niall). Irish, Slow Air (4/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The tune was in fact the composition of Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from County Down. Francis O'Neill cited James as the composer in a letter to A.P. Graves in 1906 (c.f. Caoimhin Mac Aoidh, The Scribe).  Source for notated version: identified as "another of those fine melodies from the North of Ireland" (Irish Folk Music) contributed by fiddler Chicago Police Sergeant James O'Neill, a fiddler originally from Ulster [O'Neill].  Printed sources: O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 68, p. 12.  Recorded sources:

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