"Carolan's Farewell To Music" (Gaelic: Ceileabrad Uí Cearballain), also known as "O'Carolan's Farewell" is an Irish slow air. Players have transposed to various keys: G Dorian (Complete Collection..., O'Farrell): D Minor (Williamson): A Minor (O'Farrell/Pocket). According to tradition, this is the last tune composed by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670–1738). "It was in the spring of 1738 that Carolan felt a weakness coming over him and foreknowing his death, he made a return to the home of his dearest friend and sponsor, Mrs. MacDermott Roe. It was by now an old, old lady who received him at the ancestral seat of the MacDermott Roes, Alderford. Carolan spoke lovingly to her, telling her he was come home to die. Then, calling for his harp, he played this farewell to music. At the close of the tune, he walked upstairs to the bed, where he died a few days later amid the tears and praises of friends and mourned the country round" (Williamson, 1976). It was printed in O'Farrell's Collection of National Irish Music for the Union Pipes (1804), O'Farrell's Pocket Companion, vol. 1 (1805), O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) (as "O'Carolan's Farewell"), O'Neill's Irish Minstrels and Musicians (1913) (as "O'Carolan's Farewell"), O'Sullivan's Carolan: The Life, Times and Music of an Irish Harper (1958), Williamson's English, Welsh, Scotch and Irish Fiddle Tunes (1976) and Ossian Publications' The Complete Works of O’Carolan (1984). It has been recorded by John McCutcheon on Fine Times at Our House, The Chieftains on The Chieftains Live and Derek Bell on Carolan's Receipt.