O'Donnell abu.
[Glasgow] : James Kay, Glasgow,
[ca. 1844]
Dated from the Scottish Book Trade Index.
O'Donnell abu - first lines read: Proudly the note of the trumpet is sounding, / Loudly the war cries arise on the gale, / Fleetly the steed by Loch Suilig is bounding, / To join the thick squadrons in Saimear's green vale.
Jamie Raeburn - first lines read: My name is Jamie Raeburn, / In Glasgow I was born, / My place and habitation / I was forced to leave in scorn.
In two columns with an illustration above the first.
Two ballads.
'Price one penny'.
The tune for O'Donnell Abu was composed in the early part of the 19th century by Joseph Haliday, a man from Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary. He was bandmaster of the Cavan militia. Michael McCann, a young Galway man, added words to the music. The composition first appeared  in 'The Nation' of January, 1843 and was then called 'The Clan Connell War Song'.
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