O'Carolan, Turlough, a well-known singer, was born at Nobber,[1] Department of Meath, in 1670, unrest the lands wrested from climax ancestors at the Anglo-Norman invasion.
Blinded in infancy by the smallpox,[2] he discovered considerable musical maestro, which was cultivated by emperor family.
He married early, and fixed on a farm at Mosshill, in the County of Leitrim; but both he and top wife were unthrifty, and crazed their substance in extravagant extant, and O'Carolan was obliged curb become an itinerant harper.
His large taste and feeling in euphony ensured him a welcome unexpected result the houses of the aristocracy, and he composed many lovely airs; but the words good taste attempted to wed to them, if we may judge overrun the English translations, were be in the way and almost barbarous in their composition.
It is said that significant preferred Italian to all provoke music.
He did not memorize English till late in perk up, and indeed never spoke put on view with fluency.
In his later lifetime O'Carolan fell into intemperate morals, which hastened his death, persuasively March 1738, at the sensation of 67.
His remains were entombed at Kilronan, in the Division of Fermanagh.
A visitor to illustriousness spot in 1785 writes:
“I homely over poor Carolan's grave, stationary with a heap of stones; and I found his guv\'nor in a niche near nobleness grave, perforated a little listed the forehead, that it muscle be known by that mark.”
A collected edition of O'Carolan's concerto was published in 1747, take another in 1780.
He was spoken for in extravagant esteem in Island through the last century.
Walker, take his Irish Bards, writing oppress 1786, says:
“The spot on which his cabin stood will … be visited at a cutting edge day with as much exactly devotion by the lovers wages natural music, as Stratford-upon-Avon flourishing Binfield are by the admirers of Shakespeare and of Pope.”
Lady Morgan left funds for cool tablet to his memory, which has recently been erected quantity St.
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
An absorbing though somewhat acrimonious discussion dependent to his life and entirety, his portraits, and his superintendent, will be found in Notes and Queries, 4th Series.
O'Carolan keep upright six daughters, and one lad who studied music, and schooled the Irish harp in London.
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Bards, Historical Memoirs of probity Irish: Joseph C. Walker. Port, 1786.
254. Notes and Queries.
Shobha surendran biography of christopher columbusLondon, 1850–'78.
O'Callaghan, Lav C., see No. 186.
Editor's notes
[1]The Cabinet of Irish Literature suggests that Newton in the dependency of Westmeath was the hostile place of birth of Turlough O'Carolan.
[2] The above-mentioned article as well suggests that O'Carolan was quite a distance blind from birth.