Anach Cuain
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Anach Cuain", also known as "Eanach Dhúin" is an Irish slow air in E Dorian. The parts are played<br> AAB.<br> Jackie Small, in his notes to the tune in CRÉ V, says the tune was originally a song air,<br> arranged as a dance tune. Junior Crehan has one such reworking, which he called “The Sheep in<br> the Boat.” The song was composed by the poet Raiftearaí (Blind Rafferty), although Small thinks<br> the air probably predated it. It tells of a tragedy in which nine people were drowned in the<br> Corrib River, several miles from Galway City, in the year 1828. They had departed from Eanach<br> Dhúin, on the eastern shore of Lough Corrib.<br> It was printed in Breathnach's CRÉ V (1999),<br> Flaherty's Trip to Sligo (1990) and<br> Ó Canainn's Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland (1995).<br> It was recorded by<br> Seamus and Manus McGuire on Humours of Lissadell.<br>
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