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The " Londonderry Air " is an Irish air (folk tune) that originated in County Londonderry, first recorded in the nineteenth century. The tune is played as the victory sporting anthem of Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games.
Mystery melody becomes the Londonderry Air. Many people believe the tune heard by Jane Ross that day was the melody originally composed by Rory Dall O’Cahan some 200 years before. Ross sent a copy of the tune to Dr George Petrie who was devoted to the study of Irish music.
Londonderry Air – pieśń irlandzka, popularna wśród irlandzkich emigrantów w takich krajach jak USA, Wielka Brytania czy Kanada. Melodia wykorzystywana jest w roli hymnu przez reprezentację Irlandii Północnej podczas Igrzysk Wspólnoty Narodów. Autorką tekstu jest Katherine Tynan Hinkson.
27 lip 2023 · There are a few theories about the origins of ‘Londonderry Air’, but the most popular one states that in 1851, a woman called Jane Ross heard an unnamed fiddler playing it in Limavady, Ireland.
15 mar 2022 · It first appeared in print in George Petrie’s Ancient Airs of Ireland, in which Dr. Petrie credited a Miss Jane Ross, of County Derry (also known as County Londonderry,) Ireland, for notating this “Londonderry Air” after hearing it played by an unnamed blind fiddler.
The internationally known Londonderry Air carries the status of a cultural symbol of Ireland. Both its collector and its publisher claimed in 1855 that the music was very old, a belief which has passed into conventional wisdom.
The tune of Danny Boy was popular long before the lyrics were written and was originally known as the Londonderry Air or the Air from County Derry. The composer is not known for certain but many attribute it to a blind Irish harpist called Rory Dall O’Cahan, who’s thought to have lived in northern Ireland in the late sixteenth and early ...
