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Turlough O'Carolan,〔According to the 5th edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the version "O'Carolan" is ''"modern and lacks authority"''〕 ((アイルランド語:Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin); (:ˈt̪ˠɾˠeːl̪ˠəx oː ˈcaruːl̪ˠaːnʲ)) (167025 March 1738) was a blind early Irish harper, composer and singer whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition. Although not a composer in the classical sense, Carolan is considered by many to be Ireland's national composer. Harpers in the old Irish tradition were still living as late as 1792, as ten, including Arthur O'Neill, Patrick Quin and Donnchadh Ó Hámsaigh, showed up at the Belfast Harp Festival, but there is no proof of any of these being composers. Ó Hámsaigh did play some of Carolan's music but disliked it for being too modern. Some of O'Carolan's own compositions show influences of the style of continental classical music, whereas others such as Carolan's ''Farewell to Music'' reflect a much older style of "Gaelic Harping". ==Biography== O'Carolan was born in 1670 in Nobber, County Meath, where his father was a blacksmith. The family moved from Meath to Ballyfarnon, County Roscommon in 1684. In Roscommon, his father took a job with the MacDermot Roe family of Alderford House. Mrs. MacDermot Roe gave Turlough an education, and he showed talent in poetry. After being blinded by smallpox at the age of eighteen O'Carolan was apprenticed by Mrs. MacDermot Roe to a good harper. At the age of twenty-one, being given a horse and a guide, he set out to travel Ireland and compose songs for patrons.〔White, Harry: "Carolan, Turlough (Ó Cearbhalláin, Toirdhealbhach)", in: ''Dictionary of Irish Biography'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).〕 For almost fifty years, O'Carolan journeyed from one end of Ireland to the other, composing and performing his tunes. One of his earliest compositions was about Brigid Cruise, with whom he was infatuated. Brigid was the teenage daughter of the schoolmaster at the school for the blind attended by Carolan in Cruisetown, Ireland.〔Hardiman, James: (Irish Minstrelsy, or, Bardic Remains of Ireland: with English poetical translations ), London 1831, p. xlix.〕 In 1720, O'Carolan married Mary Maguire. He was then 50 years of age. Their first family home was a cottage on a parcel of land near the town of Manachain (now Mohill) in County Leitrim, where they settled. They had seven children, six daughters and one son. In 1733 Mary died. Turlough O'Carolan died on 25 March 1738. He is buried in the MacDermot Roe family crypt in Kilronan Burial Ground near Ballyfarnon, County Roscommon. The annual O'Carolan Harp Festival and Summer School commemorates his life and work in Keadue, County Roscommon. A bronze monument by sculptor Oisin Kelly depicting Turlough O'Carolan playing his harp was erected on a plinth at the Market Square, Mohill, on 10 August 1986, and was unveiled by Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland. A statue was erected to him at his place of birth (Nobber, Co Meath) in 2002, during the Annual O'Carolan Harp Festival, the first of which was held in Nobber in 1988. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Turlough O'Carolan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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