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Life
1882-1937; b. Belfast; first organist of St Peter’s Church, Antrim Rd., still in boyhood; began collecting Gaelic songs in Co. Donegal, 1899; met Padraic Colum, who translated many of the song he collected, incl. “The Star of the Co. Down”; “I Know Where I’m Going”; “The Next Market Fair”, &c.; proceeded to Royal College of Music, London; made celebrated folk-song arrangements, often printed; d. Brighton. FDA
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Works
Irish Country Songs. First volume edited, arranged, and for the most part collected by Herbert Hughes (London: Boosey & Co. Ltd. [1909]), 77pp. [28cm.] CONTENTS: “An island spinning song” (words by Padraic Colum, adapted from an old ballad); “B for Barney” (a fragment); “The bonny wee mare” (a ballad of a horse-race); “Down by the sally gardens” (air: “The maids of Mourne Shore” (words by W. B. Yeats); “The Fanaid grove”; “The Gartan mother’s lullaby” (words by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil.; “I know my love”; “I know where I’m goin’”; “I wish I had the shepherd’s lamb” (words by permission from Joyce’s Irish music and song (translated by P. W. Joyce); “The little rose of Gartan” (words by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil [Joseph Campbell]; “The lover’s curse”; “Must I go bound?”; “My love, oh, she is my love” (words by Douglas Hyde, from the Irish); “The next market day”; “Reynardine”; “She moved thro’ the fair” (words by Padraic Colum, adapted from an old ballad); “Slow by the shadows” (words by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil [Joseph Campbell]; “The verdant braes of Skreen”; “The weaver’s daughter”; “When thro’ life unblest we rove” (words by Thomas Moore); “You couldn’t stop a lover” (a fragment). [Copy held in the Royal Academy of Music [Dublin])
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