honour thus conferred on him, to their consternation Rory replied: 'A greater than King James has laid his hand on my shoulder'. Who was that man?' cried the King. 'O'Neill, Sire', proudly answered Rory standing up." In the late 20th century, the piece was wedded to Raggle Taggle Gypsy in a version by Planxty and has since enjoyed a huge resurgence. Other compositions Bruce Armstrong attributed the following pieces to Ó Catháin: Lude's Supper The Terror of Death The Fiddler's Content Rorie Dall's Sister's Lament The Derry Air O'Neill thought that Port Athol, Port Gordon, and Port Lennox, were all Ó Catháin's. Seabhac Bheal Atha Seanaigh/The Hawk of Ballyshannon, celebrating the wedding of Charles O'Donnell, son of Manus of Rosturk Mulranny, County Mayo, to a Miss More, composed to a tune by Ruaidrí Dáll Ó Catháin is printed in Bunting (1840, p. 13). Death O'Neill reports that he died in Scotland: "It is a curious coincidence that after spending many years with McLeod, of Dunvegan, in the Isle of Skye, O'Cahan should die at Eglinton Castle about the year 1653. In some inaccountable way during his long sojourn in Scotland he became known as Rory Dall Morrison, and this has so clouded his origin and identity as to involve his very nationality in question." O'Neill was, however, mistaken as their lives didn't even overlap, Morrison being born on the Isle of Lewis around 1656 while Ó Catháin was born in Antrim in the 1580s. Ruaidrí Dáll Mac Ghille Mhoire is buried in Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye while Ó Catháin is buried in Sleat, also on Skye, having spent most of his life in the Scottish Highlands. Maybe this is what confused O'Neill. Doubts about Ó Catháin's existence In 2017, the Scottish researcher Keith Sanger explained at length his reasons for believing that Ruaidrí Dáll Ó Catháin never existed and was instead made up by Arthur O'Neill. He takes up the most thorough biographical research on Ó Catháin to date, which was first published by Colm Ó Baoill in 1971 and repeated in 2007. Ó Baoill stated that "while Arthur cannot be contradicted on present knowledge, the known history of the Ó Catháin family does not support his account in any way" By 2007, Ó Baoill wrote, "the argument is based on no real evidence, and until some is found we must conclude that the only relic we have