Annotation:William Eccles
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WILLIAM ECCLES. Irish, Planxty (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Composed by wikipedia:Turlough_O'Carolan (1670-1738). According to Donal O'Sullivan (1958), the Eccles family came to Ireland in the time of Charles II (latter 17th century) and settled in Tyrone and Fermanagh (with a branch in Roscommon). "There can be no doubt that the subject of this air is the William Eccles who provided the sac in which MacCabe was tied up by Carolan, and whose funeral Charles O'Conor attended in Dungar on the the 11th October, 1728." O'Sullivan refers to Charles MacCabe, who, as another contemporary harper, Arthur O'Neill, recalled was a good performer on the harp, 'but so peevish a creature that there was no enduring him'. MacCabe was a practical joker, and took pleasure in playing tricks on Carolan and others, despite their friendship and convivial habits. The incident with the sack is one time Carolan turned the tables, for they had bet that whomever should get drunk first should pay the reckoning in the morning. MacCabe fell to dozing first, then to a deep sleep, upon which Carolan obtained a large sack and fitted it around his body, tying it at the neck. MacCabe, upon arising and trying to stretch, found himself thus bound, and proof of his having lost the bet[1]
- ↑ See O'Sullivan, Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper, 1958, p. 51. For more on MacCabe see Carolan's "Lament for Charles MacCabe".