William Connellan (c.1630; date of death unknown)[1] was an Irish harper and composer for the harp.
Lifeedit
William Connellan was born in Cloonmahon, County Sligo, the younger brother of Thomas Connellan (c.1625–1698). Like Thomas, he became a harper and composer. William is famous for the words and music of "Molly McAlpine", sometimes also known as "Carolan's Dream". Turlough Carolan, Ireland's pre-eminent harper-composer of the late 17th and early 18th century, loved the song so much that he is stated as having said that he "would rather have been the composer of 'Molly McAlpine' than of any melody he himself had ever composed".[2] He may also have composed the tune "Caoineach Luimnigh" (The Lament for Limerick). After Thomas's death, he travelled extensively in Scotland, where he was well known. There his version of "Luimnigh" became Lochabar No More. He is also credited with Love's A Tormenting Pain and probably Killiecrankie.
I heard much of his brother William Connellan, who was a famous harper and a fine composer. He died in the county of Waterford.
Referencesedit
^Helen Lawlor: "Connellan brothers", in: The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. by Harry White and Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), p. 234–5.
^According to Edward Bunting: The Ancient Music of Ireland (Dublin, 1840).
Further readingedit
The Harpers Connellan: Irish Music of the late 17th Ventury. The Life and Times of the Sligo Harpers William and Thomas Connellan, Kathleen Loughnane (2009), ISMN 979 0 9002013 3 1.
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