1. Donal O'Sullivan gives the reference as Walker (1786) p.327 but it is actually the second edition of 1818, which says:
Carolan had seven children by his wife; six daughters and one son. His son, who had studied music, went to London where he taught the Irish harp.* But, before his departure, he published by subscription, (AD 1747) a collection of his father's music, omitting, from mercenary motives, some of his best pieces. To this collection a short preface is prefixed, in which much fulsome praise is lavished on our Bard, and a parallel drawn between him and Horace. This collection was re published in Dublin by John Lee, in the year 1780, but without the preface...
*On inquiry I find that he brought his father's harp with him to London and also another man's wife

2. Donal O'Sullivan, "Carolan: The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper" Routlege and Kegan Paul, 1958, p. 127

3. Frank Kidson, Irish Music Bibliography, in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. J A Fuller Maitland (London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1910)

4. Compare Ann Heymann's performance of Loftus Jones from Bunting ms33(2) at the Boston MFA website (Click here to visit the Bunworth Harp page at MFA Boston and scroll to the bottom to listen to Carolan's Draught and Loftus Jones by Turlough O'Carolan, about 1730, performed by Ann Heymann on a HHSI Student Downhill harp) with my performance of Loftus Jones from Lee: MP3, 2MB, also on a HHSI Student Downhill harp. Another tune with these features but which is preserved only in Lee is Carolan's Elevation; here is a recording of me playing it: MP3, 609k

5. Click here for Wighton Collection catalogue entry

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