Irish Fridays

[johncorrigan]

Here's a song the tune of which I know well. The words are magical and I think you'll see why when you read them with the translation. It's a modern arrangement of a childen's song sung by Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh - that's McAuley to us Global.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30WGu4ePy0c

Nice one, Padraig...lots of sole! Mrs C is learning Scots Gaelic just now. I'll show it to her and see what she thinks.

[Globaltruth]

..lots of sole! Mrs C is learning Scots Gaelic just now.

go maith, im mo chuid éisc!

[johncorrigan]

Topic Records have re-released Dick Gaughan's 'Handful of Earth', so Scottish he may be, but here's Dick's version of 'Lough Erne/First Kiss at Parting' for this particular Irish Friday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj9L8FY27b0

[Globaltruth]

Turns out if one of my old friends takes enough drink on board, he can sing a version of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VeaD_OFCeQ

It’s a Christy Moore song, here sung by D’Arcy Broderick.
Called Nancy Spain after the legendary female journalist.
Bit saccharine sweet for my taste but worth a post I thought...

[Padraig]

An Irish song but sung by a Scot; a Christy Moore song, sung by somebody else. How to reconcile this information?

So. Here is an Irish tune, but it is not a song; it's played by a group which once included Christy Moore.

The tune is called Planxty Hewlett. I don't know who Hewlett was, but he must have been important enough to have a tune in his honour composed by Carolan. The group was, of course, Planxty, forever associated with Turlough O Carolan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXC2Sw9iSts

[Globaltruth]

Well, I've been looking for a song on the theme of 'Is oth leis a bheith Béarla' hmm... can't find anything so perhaps better to have something a bit calming

from Colm Mac Con Iomaire's new album called The River Holds its breath
this track being The Shining :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0A6r5l8Rqw

[Padraig]

Well, I've been looking for a song on the theme of 'Is oth leis a bheith Béarla' hmm...

Global, forgive me if I have misunderstood your Irish (I'm not that good myself) but I make it that you regret your English and you wanted a song to express that. I don't think you meant 'being English', unless you're mixing up 'Bearla' with 'Sasanach'

'Regrets' is a good theme for a song, so here's one in Gaeilge and Bearla - Do Bhi Bean Uasal (There was once a Lady)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAsIu4w_cu4

[johncorrigan]

For an Irish Friday and with me readying to head west for a couple of weeks, a spot of Scottish Gaelic from Mary Ann Kennedy's recent release 'Ghlaschu: Home Town Love Song' - this one is 'Òran do Ghlaschu'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EndwPaOpOs

[Padraig]

Here's The Palatine's Daughter.
It's in Irish, but you can join in the chorus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bzwayooyms

[Globaltruth]

Lisa O'Neill played this on Kathryn Tickell's Music Planet last week.
It's worth revisiting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTDjWZ1VOm4

I'm losing will love
My hands are soft as cotton gloves
Machine has eaten up my job
My meaning, my cause.
Machine with the strength of a hundred men,
Can't feed and clothe my children,
Can't greet a sailor coming in,
Or know of desperation.
I shovel coal down Spencer's dock.
I took your dear into Wedlock.
In you did bear us a beautiful flock,
We will rock the machine down on the dock.
We will rock the machine until it stops.
Oh Lo' if you show me gold!
Like a herring I will go.
Roaring liffy when you're high
Like a cormorant I will dive.
The cold wind flow I will rise,
We're going off to win back time.
We're going off to win back pride.
We will rock the machine until it dies.
Today dear I'm unemployed.
Before I spoke you read my eyes. I feared…

Yes, she freely admits to being inspired by Margaret Barry

[Globaltruth]

Junior Brother - hungover at Mass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCcYtH2GSjg

[Globaltruth]

Junior Brother - hungover at Mass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCcYtH2GSjg

Friday so it's time for a relaunch of Junior Brother, who hails from Cork where, I am sure, no-one has ever been guilty of the sin he describes.

[DracoM]

And THIS Friday might see a famous victory of Ireland over England at cricket!

[Globaltruth]

A Gloaming subset today....

those wacky funsters Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett with a track off their upcoming release Kestrel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaJi-NuZ6ik

[johncorrigan]

Irish Mythen - Tullamore Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjjWOByGBj0