Annotation:Lamentation for Father Charles O'Rodican
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X:1 T:Lamentation for Father Charles O'Rodican M:C L:1/8 S:Hugh O'Beirne, 1846, piper, Co. Leitrim via William Forde B:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909, No. 612) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:Dmin fe|d2c2A2 FG|A c2 A d2 cA|G3F D2 (3FEF|D2D2D2|| |:CD|F2G2F3G|Ac d2 c3A|F3G Ac d2|d6:|| fe|d2 cA F2G2|A c2A {c}d2 cG|A2TG2F2 GF|D2D2D2||
LAMENTATION FOR FATHER CHARLES O'RODICAN. Irish, Air (4/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABBC.
- ↑ P.W. Joyce concluded that O'Beirne had been a fiddler in his Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909, p. 296). However, William Forde, the only collector who had direct contact with O'Beirne, wrote in a letter to John Windele of Cork, dated Sept. 21, 1846, that he had obtained over 150 airs from a piper, Huge Beirne. Forde was seeking to supplement his collection with music from Connaught and the north, and was glad to make the musician's acquaintance, staying on in Ballinamore longer than he originally planned. He also found O'Beirne in poor health in the time of Great Famine, writing "Stirabout and bad potatoes were working fatally on a sinking frame," and aided the piper by improving his diet ("but a mutton chop twice a day has changed Hugh's face wonderfully").
