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Carolan's memorial in St Patrick's Cathedral was the gift of Sydney, Lady Morgan.. Carolan was born in 1670 in Nobber, County Meath, [1] where his father was a blacksmith. The family, who were said to be a branch of the Mac Brádaigh sept of County Cavan (Carolan's great-grandfather, Shane Grana O'Carrolan, was chieftain of his sept in 1607 [2]), forfeited their estates during the civil wars ...
Written by Fetty Wap and produced by Tony Fadd of RGF Productions, "Trap Queen" is a melodic lo-fi hip hop, [15] trap, [9] [16] R&B, [17] and pop-rap song. [18] Wap sings most of the song's verses, along with its chorus, in a gritty, melodic delivery reminiscent of contemporary Southern hip hop artists such as Gucci Mane, Future, Rich Homie Quan, and Young Thug.
Carolan's Welcome is a traditional air composed by the Irish harper/songwriter Turlough O'Carolan, (1670-1738). In Donal O'Sullivan's exhaustive book covering Carolan and all his songs, [1] this piece is listed as the first of ten Carolan songs that do not have surviving titles. There it is identified only as number 171 in the Carolan repertoire.
The poet John Dalton adapted Milton's masque of 1634 so as to fit 18th century theatrical conventions and published it in 1738 as Comus, a Mask (Now adapted to the Stage). In particular he considerably extended its musical content by the addition of lyrics from elsewhere in Milton's work, and also some of Dalton's own composition, as well as ...
His song "Like a Star" features Nicki Minaj and was released in December 2016. [38] On January 4, 2017, he released the song "Way You Are" featuring Monty, [39] and the song "Flip Phone" on February 10, 2017. [40] He walked in Philipp Plein's runway show during New York Fashion Week in February 2017. [41] He released the single "Aye" on May 12 ...
The hymn remains popular today and is included in many contemporary hymn books. In 2013, following a survey conducted by the BBC Television programme Songs of Praise, "And Can It Be?" was voted number 6 in the UK's Top 100 Hymns. [4] Diarmaid MacCulloch suggests that the hymn is one of the best-loved of Wesley's six thousand hymns.
The tune is usually attributed to blind harpist and singer Turlough O'Carolan (1670–1738) as his first song, written to the tune of "The Bonnie Cuckoo" (Roud 24351). [4] [5] One author describes it as a "beautiful old Irish air, usually played simply and leisurely, and occasionally played as a waltz". [6]
[7] The song was seized upon by the Jacobites, who altered Thomson's words to a pro-Jacobite version. [ 8 ] According to Armitage [ 9 ] "Rule, Britannia" was the most lasting expression of the conception of Britain and the British Empire that emerged in the 1730s, "predicated on a mixture of adulterated mercantilism, nationalistic anxiety and ...