George Brabazon by Turlough O'Carolan

 

This tune composed by the great Irish harpist Turlough O' Carolan was probably composed toward the end of Carolan's career. The subject of the drinking song is George Brabazon of New Park, in the barony of Gallen and parish of Kilconduff, County Mayo, He was a bachelor at the time the song was composed. He was descended from Sir William Brabazon, Lord Treasurer and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland during Henry VIII reign. The grandson of the George Brabazon of this tune died unmarried in 1840 and the baronetcy became extinct.