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| The story explains how these cruel acts of retribution against the
O’Cahan Clan were to spawn a lament of immeasurable beauty and inspire
another member of the Clan, Rory Dall O’Cahan, a blind harpist, to
compose a tune of such pain and passion that it would eventually touch
the hearts of people all over the world. A lament of such mystical beauty which reflected the pain of the homeless O’Cahan Clan that many believe Rory Dall O’Cahan must have had some assistance with its composition.  Many believe to this day that the original O’Cahan Lament is so beautiful that it could only have been created by the invisible fingers and tears of the true owners of all the lands of Ireland – ‘An Slua Si’ – ‘the little folk’. The Legend relates how the original O’Cahan Lament became known as the Londonderry Air and the part a lady from Limavady called Miss Jane Ross played in that process. How her dedication in writing down the tune in 1855 when she heard it played by Jimmy McCurry, a blind street musician, ensured it would be preserved for generations to come. The story tells of another famous Irish harper, Denis O'Hampsey, who played the tune during his long life of 112 years and how his famous harp, The Downhill Harp, is preserved and on permanent display in the Guinness Museum in Dublin. But the Legend of Danny Boy is a story that travels far beyond Ireland’s shores to America with those who emigrated during the famine and others who left their homeland aboard the magnificent liner Titanic in 1912 as it sailed out of Cork harbour, little realising the fate that awaited them. The Legend tells how the music amazingly made its way back from Colorado and into the hands of a man called Frederick Weatherly in 1912, that same year Titanic set sail for New York carrying the hopes and dreams of many Irish people from these shores. |
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