Saturday 1 February 2020
Tune of the Day: Young Terence McDonough
Traditional Irish air
This lament was composed (as “Lament for Terence MacDonough”) by Turlough O'Carolan to commemorate the death of the son of Terence MacDonogh of Sligo, Ireland, in 1713. The melody, which was first printed in Dublin in Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (c. 1724), was later used with Sir Walter Scott's poem “The Return to Ulster”, and was also employed as the air to the song “The Moon Dimmed Her Beams”.