Annotation:Kitty O'Hara

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KITTY O'HARA (Caitilin Ni Eagra). Irish, Air (3/4 time, "tenderly"). G Major (O'Neill): B Flat Major (Bunting). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Bunting, O'Sullivan/Bunting): ABB' (O'Neill).

Source for notated version: the index to the Irish collector Edward Bunting's 1840 collection notes the melody was collected at Castlebar in 1802.

Printed sources: Bunting (Ancient Music of Ireland), 1840; No. 39, p. 30. O'Neill (Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies), 1903; No. 183, p. 32. O'Sullivan/Bunting, 1983; No. 39, pp. 60-61.

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