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OCARINA , a See also:wind See also:instrument invented in See also:Italy, which must be classed with musical toys or freaks, although concerted See also:music has been written for it. The ocarina consists of an earthen-See also:ware See also:vessel in the shape of an See also:egg with a pointed See also:base and a See also:tube like a spout in the See also:side, which contains the See also:mouthpiece. There are usually 10 holes in the front See also:surface of the instrument, nine for fingers and thumb and a vent hole; the newer See also:models have 8 holes and two keys. By See also:half covering the holes the semi-tones are obtained.
O'CAROLAN (or CAROLAN), TURLOGH (1670-1738), Irish See also:bard, son of See also:John O'Carolan, a See also:farmer, was See also:born at See also:Newtown, near Nobber, in the See also:county of See also:Meath. The See also:family is said to have belonged to the See also:sept of MacBradaigh, and the bard's See also:great-grandfather was a chieftain. The O'Carolans forfeited their estates during the See also:civil See also:wars, and Turlogh's See also:father settled at Alderford, Co. See also:Roscommon, on the invitation of the family of M'Dermott See also:Roe. In his eighteenth See also:year he became See also:blind from smallpox. He received See also:special instruction in music, and used to wander with his See also:harp See also:round the houses of the surrounding gentry, mainly in See also:Connaught. The famous See also:song See also:Receipt for Drinking may be responsible for the allegation that he was addicted to intemperate drinking, but See also:Charles O'Conor (1710-1791), the See also:antiquary, who had See also:personal knowledge of him, gives him a See also:good See also:character in private See also:life. The number of Carolan's musical pieces, to nearly all of which he composed verses, is said to exceed two See also:hundred. He died on the 25th See also:March 1738, and was buried at Kilronan.
His poetical Remains in the See also:original Irish, with See also:English metrical See also:translations by See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Furlong, were printed in Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy (1831). Many of his songs were preserved among the Irish See also:MSS. in the See also:British Museum.
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