Annotation:Mrs. Anne MacDermott Roe

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 MRS. ANNE MACDERMOTT ROE. Irish, Planxty (2/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738). O'Sullivan's version is from Edward Bunting's Ancient Irish Music (1796), who noted it from the playing of harper Rose Mooney. It was composed, notes O'Sullivan (1958), on the occasion of the wedding of Henry McDermott Roe to Anne, the daughter of Colonel Manus O'Donnell, of Newport, County Mayo. See also note for "Annotation:Katherine O'More", where Anne is mentioned.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Complete Collection of Carolan's Irish Tunes, 1984; No. 82, p. 68. O'Sullivan (Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of and Irish Harper). 1958; No. 82.  Recorded sources:

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