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The title of the air came from the name of County Londonderry, and was collected by Jane Ross of Limavady in the county.. 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]
"Irish Tune from County Derry" BFMS 6, 5, 15, 20 and 29 (a) Solo piano (b) Unaccompanied wordless chorus (c) Strings with horns ad lib (d) Band, organ, choruses ad lib (e) Orchestra (elastic scoring) 1902–20 1911 1912 1913 1918 1920 [5] [29]
Jane Ross was born in or near Limavady, County Londonderry on 5 August 1810. She was the eldest of the four daughters and two sons of John Ross (1781–1830) and his second wife Jane (née Ogilby). She was the eldest of the four daughters and two sons of John Ross (1781–1830) and his second wife Jane (née Ogilby).
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"The Crimson Banner" is a traditional Irish song, also known as "The Eighteenth of December" and "No Surrender!". [3] Written by William Blacker in 1818, it is part of the Protestant Loyalist tradition. [4] The song celebrates the closing of the gates of the Ulster city of Derry to the approaching Jacobite Irish Army on 18 December 1688.
A song in Newcastle-upon-Tyne marking the 1821 coronation of George IV specifies its tune as "Arthur McBride". [10] "The Bold Tenant Farmer" has a similar tune which is sometimes used. [11] [12] Thomas Ainge Devyr (1805–1887), an Irish Chartist who emigrated to America in 1840, in his 1882 memoir recalled the song from his youth in County ...
"A Nation Once Again" is a song written in the early to mid-1840s by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845). Davis was a founder of Young Ireland, an Irish movement whose aim was for Ireland to gain independence from Britain. Davis believed that songs could have a strong emotional impact on people. He wrote that "a song is worth a thousand harangues".
Back Home in Derry" is an Irish rebel song written by Bobby Sands while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The song has been covered by multiple artists, most notably by Christy Moore in his 1984 album Ride On , who sang it to a melody inspired by Gordon Lightfoot 's famous 1976 song " The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald .