Charlotte Milligan Fox
Charlotte Olivia Milligan Fox (17 March 1864 – 25 March 1916) was an Irish composer, folk music collector and writer. Life Charlotte Milligan was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, on 17 March 1864 to Methodist parents, Seaton F. Milligan (1837–1916) and Charlotte Burns (1842–1916). She was the eldest of eleven children, with nine surviving including the poets Alice Milligan and Edith Wheeler. All nine children enrolled at the Methodist College, Belfast. She studied piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in London and the conservatories of Frankfurt and Milan. In 1892, after her marriage to Charles Eliot Fox, she settled in London. She founded the Irish Folk Song Society in London in 1904, acting as the society's honorary secretary. As a musician she toured Ireland collecting Irish traditional songs and airs. Fox undertook a series of tours of County Antrim during 1909–1910 with her sisters Edith Wheeler and Alice Milligan. The sisters recorded and transcri ...
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Omagh, County Tyrone
Omagh (; from ga, An Ómaigh , meaning 'the virgin plain') is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated where the rivers Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule. Northern Ireland's capital city Belfast is 68 miles (109.5 km) to the east of Omagh, and Derry is 34 miles (55 km) to the north. The town had a population of 19,659 at the 2011 Census, and the former district council, which was the largest in County Tyrone, had a population of 51,356. Omagh contains the headquarters of the Western Education and Library Board, and also houses offices for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development at Sperrin House, the Department for Regional Development and the Northern Ireland Roads Service at the Tyrone County Hall and the Northern Ireland Land & Property Services at Boaz House. History The name Omagh is an anglicisation of the Irish name ''an Óghmaigh'' (modern Irish ''an Ómaigh''), meaning "the virgin plain". A monast ...
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