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The Londonderry Air (or Derry Air) is an anthem of Northern Ireland. It is also popular among the Irish diaspora and very well known throughout the world. The tune is played as the Northern Ireland anthem at the Commonwealth Games. "Danny Boy" is a popular set of lyrics to the tune. Australian composer Percy Grainger wrote numerous settings of this tune. Northern Ireland (Irish: , Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a constituent country of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 kmÂ², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... An anthem is a composition to an English religious text sung in the context of an Anglican service. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: , Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a constituent country of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 kmÂ², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... Emigrants Leave Ireland, engraving by Henry Doyle (1827-1892), from Mary Frances Cusacks Illustrated History of Ireland, 1868 // The Irish diaspora (Irish: DiaspÃ³ra na nGael) consists of Irish emigrants and their descendants in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Mexico, New Zealand... Current flag of the Commonwealth Games Federation Locations of the games, and participating countries Commonwealth Games Federation seal, adopted in 2001 The Commonwealth Games is a multinational, multi-sport event. ... For the House of Pain MC, see Danny Boy (singer). ... Percy Grainger. ...

1 History
2 Danny Boy
3 The Confession of Devorgilla
4 Irish Love Song
5 Use as a hymn tune
6 Other uses
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
- 9.1 Audio clips

History

The title of the air comes from the name of the county in Northern Ireland. The air was collected by Jane Ross of Limavady, County Londonderry, who heard it played by an itinerant piper or fiddler. The descendents of blind fiddler Jimmy McCurry assert that he is the musician from whom she transcribed the tune but there is no historical evidence to support this speculation. Air (french for: Aria; also: Ayr, Ayre), a variant of the musical song form, is the name of various song-like vocal or instrumental compositions. ... , Limavady (IPA: ) (from the Irish: LÃ©im an Mhadaidh meaning leap of the dog) is a market town in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, with Benevenagh as a backdrop. ... For other places with similar names, see Londonderry (disambiguation) and Derry (disambiguation). ...

Ms. Ross submitted the tune to music collector George Petrie, and it was then published by the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland in the 1855 book The Ancient Music of Ireland, which Petrie edited.^[1] The tune was listed as an anonymous air, with a note attributing its collection to Jane Ross of Londonderry. This led to the descriptive title "Londonderry Air" being used for the piece. The title "Air from County Derry" or "Derry Air" is sometimes used instead of "Londonderry Air", due to the Derry-Londonderry name dispute. For other persons of the same name, see George Petrie. ... A vandalised road-sign at nearby Strabane, County Tyrone in which the London in Londonderry has been daubed over with black paint. ...

The origin of the tune was for a long time somewhat mysterious, as no other collector of folk tunes encountered it, and all known examples are descended from Ms. Ross' submission to Petrie's collection. In a 1934 article, Anne Geddes Gilchrist suggested that the performer Ross heard played the song with extreme rubato, causing Ross to mistake the time signature of the piece for common time (4/4) rather than 3/4. Gilchrist asserted that adjusting the rhythm of the piece as she proposed produced a tune more typical of Irish folk music.^[2] This article will be merged with Italian musical terms at some point in the near future. ... The time signature (also known as meter signature) is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each measure and what note value constitutes one beat. ... The time signature (also known as meter signature) is a notational device used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each bar and which note value (minim, crotchet, eighth note and so on) constitutes one beat. ...

In 1974, Hugh Shields found a long-forgotten traditional song which was very similar to Gilchrist's modified version of the melody.^[3] The song, Aislean an Oigfear ("The young man's dream"), had been transcribed by Edward Bunting in 1792 based on a performance by harper Denis Hempson at the Belfast Harp Festival. Bunting published it in 1796.^[4] Hempson lived in Magilligan, not far from Ross's home in Limavady. Hempson died in 1807.^[1] In 2000, Brian Audley published his authoritative research on the tune's origins. He showed how the distinctive high section of the tune had derived from a refrain in The Young Man's Dream which, over time, crept into the body of the music. He also discovered the original words to the tune as we now know it which were written by Edward Fitzsimmons and published in 1814; his song is 'The Confession of Devorgilla', otherwise known by its first line 'Oh Shrive Me Father'.^[5] Magilligan beach lies in the north of County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, at the entrance to Lough Foyle. ...

Danny Boy

Main article: Danny Boy

The most popular lyrics for the tune are "Danny Boy" ("Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling") written by the English lawyer, Frederick Edward Weatherly, in 1910 and set to the tune in 1913. While Weatherly intended the song as a parting message from a woman to a man,^[1] others have interpreted the parting in the song as that between a parent or grandparent and a son or grandson going off to war. The song has sometimes been taken as a call to arms, or a rebel song, sometimes with the addition of additional verses of a more military nature. For the House of Pain MC, see Danny Boy (singer). ... For the House of Pain MC, see Danny Boy (singer). ... Frederick Edward Weatherly (1848-1929) was an English lawyer, author, songwriter and radio entertainer. ...

The Confession of Devorgilla

The first lyrics to be sung to the music were, almost certainly, "The Confession of Devorgilla", otherwise known as "Oh! shrive me, father".

'Oh! shrive me, father - haste, haste, and shrive me,

'Ere sets yon dread and flaring sun;

'Its beams of peace, - nay, of sense, deprive me,

'Since yet the holy work's undone.'

The sage, the wand'rer's anguish balming,

Soothed her heart to rest once more;

And pardon's promise torture calming,

The Pilgrim told her sorrows o'er.

The charms that caus'd in life's young morning,

The woes the sad one had deplor'd,

Were now, alas! no more adorning,

The lips that pardon sweet implor'd:-

But oh! those eyes, so mildly beaming,

Once seen, not Saints could e'er forget! -

And soon the Father's tears were streaming,

When Devorgilla's gaze he met!

Gone, gone, was all the pride of beauty,

That scorn'd and broke the bridal vow,

And gave to passion all the duty

So bold a heart would e'er allow;

Yet all so humbly, all so mildly,

The weeping fair her fault confess'd,

Tho' youth had viewed her wand'ring wildly,

That age could ne'er deny her rest.

The tale of woe full sadly ended,

The word of peace the Father said,

While balmy tear-drops fast descended,

And droop'd the suppliant sinner's head.

The rose in gloom long drear and mourning,

Not welcomes more the sun's mild ray,

Than Breffni's Princess hail'd returning

The gleam of rest that shriving-day.

The first writer, after Petrie's publication, to set verses to the tune was Alfred Perceval Graves, in the late 1870's. His song was entitled 'Would I Were Erin's Apple Blossom o'er You.' Graves later stated '.....that setting was, to my mind, too much in the style of church music, and was not, I believe, a success in consequence.' (ref Audley, below).

Would I were Erin's apple-blossom o'er you,

Or Erin's rose, in all its beauty blown,

To drop my richest petals down before you,

Within the garden where you walk alone;

In hope you'd turn and pluck a little posy,

With loving fingers through my foliage pressed,

And kiss it close and set it blushing rosy

To sigh out all its sweetness on your breast.

Would I might take a pigeon's flight towards you,

And perch beside your window-pane above,

And murmur how my heart of hearts it hoards you,

O hundred thousand treasures of my love;

In hope you'd stretch your slender hand and take me,

And smooth my wildly-fluttering wings to rest,

And lift me to your loving lips and make me

My bower of blisses in your loving breast.

And when the dew no longer pearls your roses,

Nor gems your footprint on the glittering lawn,

I'd follow you into the forest closes

In the fond image of your sportive fawn;

Till you should woo me 'neath the wavering cover

With coaxing call and friendly hands and eyes,

Where never yet a happy human lover

His head has pillowed—mine to emparadise.

Irish Love Song

The tune was first called "Londonderry Air" in 1894 when Katherine Tynan Hinkson set the words of her "Irish Love Song" to it:

Would God I were the tender apple blossom

That floats and falls from off the twisted bough

To lie and faint within your silken bosom

Within your silken bosom as that does now.

Or would I were a little burnish'd apple

For you to pluck me, gliding by so cold

While sun and shade you robe of lawn will dapple

Your robe of lawn, and you hair's spun gold.

Yea, would to God I were among the roses

That lean to kiss you as you float between

While on the lowest branch a bud uncloses

A bud uncloses, to touch you, queen.

Nay, since you will not love, would I were growing

A happy daisy, in the garden path

That so your silver foot might press me going

Might press me going even unto death.

Use as a hymn tune

As with a good many folk tunes, Londonderry Air is also used a hymn tune; most notably for I cannot tell by William Young Fullerton.^[6] Folk song redirects here. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Hymn. ... William Young Fullerton was born in Belfast, in what is now Northern Ireland, on the eighth of March 1857 and died at Bedford Park, Middlesex, England on the seventeenth of August 1932 at the age of 75. ...

I cannot tell why He Whom angels worship,

Should set His love upon the sons of men,

Or why, as Shepherd, He should seek the wanderers,

To bring them back, they know not how or when.

But this I know, that He was born of Mary

When Bethlehem’s manger was His only home,

And that He lived at Nazareth and laboured,

And so the Saviour, Saviour of the world is come.

I cannot tell how silently He suffered,

As with His peace He graced this place of tears,

Or how His heart upon the cross was broken,

The crown of pain to three and thirty years.

But this I know, He heals the brokenhearted,

And stays our sin, and calms our lurking fear,

And lifts the burden from the heavy laden,

For yet the Saviour, Saviour of the world is here.

I cannot tell how He will win the nations,

How He will claim His earthly heritage,

How satisfy the needs and aspirations

Of East and West, of sinner and of sage.

But this I know, all flesh shall see His glory,

And He shall reap the harvest He has sown,

And some glad day His sun shall shine in splendour

When He the Saviour, Saviour of the world is known.

I cannot tell how all the lands shall worship,

When, at His bidding, every storm is stilled,

Or who can say how great the jubilation

When all the hearts of men with love are filled.

But this I know, the skies will thrill with rapture,

And myriad, myriad human voices sing,

And earth to Heaven, and Heaven to earth, will answer:

At last the Saviour, Saviour of the world is King

It was also used as a setting for I would be true by Howard Arnold Walter at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales: Diana Spencer redirects here. ...

I would be true, for there are those that trust me.

I would be pure, for there are those that care.

I would be strong, for there is much to suffer.

I would be brave, for there is much to dare.

I would be friend of all, the foe, the friendless.

I would be giving, and forget the gift,

I would be humble, for I know my weakness,

I would look up, and laugh, and love and live.

"Londonderry Air" was also used as the tune for the Southern Gospel hit "He looked beyond my fault" written by Dottie Rambo of the group "The Rambos" Dottie Rambo (born March 2, 1934) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician in the genre of southern gospel and country gospel music. ...

Amazing Grace shall always be my song of praise,

For it was grace that bought my liberty,

I do not know just why He came to love me so,

He looked beyond my fault and saw my need.

I shall forever lift mine eyes to Calvary,

To view the Cross where Jesus died for me,

How marvelous His grace that caught my falling soul,

When he looked beyond my fault and saw my need.

Other uses

The melody is given by Julian May as the anthem of the Tanu and Firvulag in her Saga of Pliocene Exile science fiction series. She implies that the ongoing confusion about the melody's origin arose because it originally came to Earth from an alien world. Julian May (born July 10, 1931) is an American science fiction writer, best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile (Saga of the Exiles in the UK) and Galactic Milieu books. ... The Saga of Pliocene Exile is a series of science / speculative fiction books by Julian May, first published in the early 1980s. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...

The song has been adapted into You Raise Me Up, and also Ne Viens Pas by Roch Voisine. You Raise Me Up is a popular song in the inspirational mold. ... Roch Armand Joseph Voisine, O.C. (born 26 March 1963 in Edmundston, New Brunswick) is an Acadian-QuÃ©bÃ©cois singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and TV host who lives in Montreal, Quebec, when he is not performing in Las Vegas, Nevada. ...

The melody was used to words in Irish Gaelic and sung by the Bunratty Castle chorus during the 1970's. The title used was "Maidín i mBearra".

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Michael Robinson. Danny Boy—the mystery solved!. The Standing Stones. Retrieved on 2007-07-26.
^ Gilchrist, Anne Geddes (1934). "A new light upon the Londonderry Air". Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
^ Shields, Hugh (1974). "New dates for old songs 1766–1803". Long Room (the journal of the library of Trinity College, Dublin).
^ Bunting, Edward (1796). A General Collection of the Ancient Irish Music.
^ Audley, B. (2000). "The Provenance of the Londonderry Air" (fee required). Journal of the Royal Musical Association 125 (2): 205-247. doi:10.1093/jrma/125.2.205.
^ I cannot tell. Retrieved on 2008-02-23.

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External links

The Londonderry Air: facts and fiction - by Brian Audley
The melody as a MIDI file
Easybyte - free easy piano sheet music arrangement of "Londonderry Air / Danny Boy" plus midi sound file

Audio clips

Arrangement by Herbert Hamilton Harty perfomed by the Ulster Orchestra

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Patriotic music of Ireland

"The Sash" • "A Nation Once Again" • "Ambush at Drumnakilly" • "Amhrán na bhFiann" • "The Auld Triangle" • "Kevin Barry" • "Boys of '98" • "The Boys of the Old Brigade" • "The Broad Black Brimmer" • "Come out Ye Black and Tans" • "Danny Boy" • "Derry Air" • "Down by the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men)" • "Dublin in the Rare Old Times" • "Dying Rebel" • "The Fields of Athenry" • "Fightin' Men of Crossmaglen" • "Gleanntáin Ghlas' Ghaoth Dobhair" • "Go On Home British Soldiers" • "God Save Ireland" • "The Green Fields of France" • "Ireland's Call" • "It's a Great Day for the Irish" • "Joe McDonnell" • "Johnston's Motor Car" • "Lillibullero" • "Little Armalite" • "The Men Behind the Wire" • "The Minstrel Boy" • "Molly Malone" • "Only Our Rivers Run Free" • "On Raglan Road" • "Oró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile" • "The Rifles of the IRA" • "The Rising of the Moon" • "SAM Song" • "Say Hello to the Provos" • "Sean South of Garryowen" • "Take It Down from the Mast" • "The Dawning of the Day" • "The People's Own MP" • "The Rose of Mooncoin" • "The Sidewalks of New York" • "The Town I Loved So Well" • "The Wearing of the Green" • "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" • "Women of Ireland" • "Wrap the Green Flag Around Me, Boys" • "You'll Never Beat The Irish" • This is an incomplete list. ... The Sash is an Irish Protestant ballad commemorating the Protestant victory in the Williamite war in Ireland in 1690-91. ... A Nation Once Again is a song, written sometime in the 1840s by Thomas Osbourne Davis (1814-1845). ... Ambush at Drumnakilly is an Irish rebel song about an event in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland which occurred on August 30, 1988: three volunteers of the Provisional IRA (IRA), brothers Martin and Gerald Harte and Brian Mullen(Bard), were ambushed and killed by the Special Air Service (SAS). ... (pronounced ) is the national anthem of the Republic of Ireland. ... The Auld Triangle is a song which is featured in Brendan Behans play The Quare Fellow. ... Kevin Barry For the New Zealand boxing trainer Kevin Barry, see Kevin Barry (boxer) Kevin Barry (January 20, 1902 - November 1, 1920) was an Irish medical student who fought in the Irish War of Independence, becoming one of its earliest and most remembered martyrs. ... The Boys of the Old Brigade is an Irish Republican folk song about the Irish Republican Army of the Irish War of Independence 1919-1921. ... The Broad Black Brimmer is an Irish Republican folk song written by Noel Nagle of the Wolfe Tones. ... Come Out Ye Black and Tans (sometimes Black and Tan) is an Irish rebel song referring to the Black and Tans, the British paramilitary police auxiliary force in Ireland during the 1920s. ... For the House of Pain MC, see Danny Boy (singer). ... Down by the Glenside (The Bold Fenian Men) is an Irish rebel song written by Peadar Kearney, an Irish Republican and composer of numerous rebel songs, including The Soldiers Song (AmhrÃ¡n na bhFiann), now the Irish National Anthem. ... Dublin in the Rare Old Times is a song composed by Pete St. ... An Irish rebel Song about a man finding a dying Irish Rebel Lyrics The night was dark and the fight was over The moon shone down Oâ€™Connell street I stood alone, where brave men perished Those men have gone, their God to meet Chorus My only son was shot... The Fields of Athenry is a song about the Great Irish Famine (1845-1849), composed in the 1970s by Inchicore songwriter Pete St. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... GleanntÃ¡in Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair, is a Gaelic song written by Irish musician Proinsias Ã“ Maonaigh about his hometown of Gweedore in County Donegal. ... Go on Home British soldiers is an Irish rebel song instructing the British forces that are in Ireland to go home, especially the British Army that has been in Northern Ireland since 1969. ... God Save Ireland was the unofficial national anthem of the Irish Republic and the Irish Free State from 1919 to 1926, when it was displaced by the official AmhrÃ¡n na bhFiann. ... The grave of a Willie McBride, died 1916. ... Irelands Call is a song commissioned by the Irish Rugby Football Union for use at international rugby union fixtures featuring the Irish rugby union team. ... Its A Great Day for the Irish The original Irish-American song was written in 1940 by Roger Edens the Musical Director at MGM under the leadership of Arthur Freed for inclusion in the film version of the George M. Cohan 1922 Broadway show Little Nellie Kelly Directed by... The Ballad of Joe McDonnell is a song recorded by Brian Warfield of the Wolfe Tones in commemoration of Joe McDonnell and his fellow hunger strikers in the 1981 IRA hunger strike. ... Johnstons Motor Car is an Irish rebel song written by Willian Gillespie based on the commandeering of a motor car belonging to a Doctor Johnston by the Irish Republican Army. ... Lillibullero is a march that sets the words of a satirical ballad generally said to be by Lord Thomas Wharton to music attributed to Henry Purcell. ... My Little Armalite is an Irish Republican song that praises the Armalite rifle which was used by republican paramilitaries against the British security forces in Northern Ireland. ... The Men Behind the Wire is an Irish republican song composed in the aftermath of the imposition of Internment without trial of some Irish republicans associated with Provisional Sinn Féin (now known simply as Sinn Féin), as well as others unconnected with militant republicanism who had been arrested... The Minstrel Boy is an Irish patriotic song written by Thomas Moore (1779-1852) who set it to the melody of The Moreen, an old Irish air. ... Molly Malone (also known as Cockles And Mussels) is a popular song which has acquired the status of an Irish anthem. ... Only Our Rivers Run Free 1965 by Mickey MacConnell When apples still grow in November, when blossom remains on each tree, When leaves are still green in December - its then that our land will be free. ... On Raglan Road of an Autumn day I saw her first and knew, That her dark hair would weave a snare That I might someday rue. ... OrÃ³, SÃ© do Bheatha Bhaile is a traditional Irish independantist song. ... The Rifles of the IRA is an Irish rebel song. ... For other uses, see The Rising of the Moon (disambiguation). ... The SAM Song is an Irish Rebel Song, written by Gerry Ã“ Glacain. ... Say Hello To The Provos is an Irish Rebel song written in the early 70s which deals with events happening at that time in Irish history, namely The Troubles. ... SeÃ¡n South was a member of the Pearse Column and he was fatally wounded during the attack on Brookeborough barracks in 1957. ... Due to the association with Catholic Republican movements of the Green Flag, Sinn FÃ©in preferred the Green, White and Orange in 1918, by which the tri-colour became known as the Sinn FÃ©in Flag during the War of Independence. ... The Dawning of the Day is an old Irish song composed by the blind harpist Thomas Connellan in the 17th Century. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... One of the most famous Irish ballads, this song was written in the 1800s in Mooncoin by a local schoolteacher and poet named Watt Murphy, who met and gradually fell in love with a local woman called Elizabeth, also known as Molly. ... The Town I Loved So Well is a song written by Phil Coulter about his childhood in Derry, Northern Ireland. ... The Wearing of the Green is an anonymous Irish street ballad dating to 1798. ... The Wind That Shakes the Barley is an Irish ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce (1836-1883), a Limerick-born poet and professor of English literature. ... Lyrics Ta bean in Ã‰ireann a phronnfadh sead damh is mo shaith le n-ol Is ta bean in Ã‰ireann is ba bhinne leithe mo rafla ceoil No seinm thead; ata bean in Eirinn is niorbh fhearr lei beo Mise ag leimnigh no leagtha i gcre is mo tharr faoi... Wrap the Green Flag Around Me, Boys is an Irish rebel song, desribing the singers nationalist sentiments and respect for the Green Irish flag. ... Youll Never Beat the Irish is a three-part Irish rebel song, written by Brian Warfield and performed by the Wolfe Tones. ...

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	The "Londonderry Air" is an anthem of Northern Ireland.
	The air was collected by Jane Ross of Limavady, County Londonderry, and was first published in book form by the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland in 1855 in The Ancient Music of Ireland produced by George Petrie, in which it was listed as an "anonymous air".
	Londonderry Air was also used as the tune for the Southern Gospel hit whose words were penned by Dottie Rambo of the group "The Rambos"

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