I'm a Scotsman, but like most people in Scotland, we have ALOT of time for the Irish, and i can understand how this calls to them, it calls to me in the same way, it saddens me to think of the lament of Ireland, through all the grief and persecution heaped on her shoulders, for no reason. But, 20 miles across the sea in Scotland, the door is always open, and the fire is always roaring, with a wee dram, for our Irish kin and cousins. Erin gu brath, Alba gu brath :)
Much appreciated. If I was going to live anywhere else in these islands it'd definitely be Scotland. Don't think I could stomach living in England. Good luck in the Euros!
Played it at my grandpa's funeral today. Someone who took care of shopping his groceries for 2,5-3 years mentioned afterwards "the bagpipe just cut through my soul like nothing I ever experienced before!" Saw that person completely wrecked during the service as well, felt heartbroken for her.
There is nothing, no words, no actions, no drugs like this song. I suffer from extreme. mind bending, heart breaking, soul crushing depression from time to time. At the worst of times I take a copy of the song, crank up my 500 watt stereo in my van on a remote hill top and let this song scream out into the night. It seems to take all the pain and darkness away as it thunders out over the hills and valleys. Thank you for allowing me to find peace and a little bit of happiness.
As Chesterton said: the Gaels of Ireland are a folk that God made mad. Wars make them happy and songs make them sad. I can't explain it and I won't ask you to. But I've been in that van as well. Happiness to you.
I can fully understand this. I had a place on one of the hills a few miles from here I lived where I went to listen to music, look over the valley at the setting sun, and weep. I hope this amazingly talented artist continues to sooth your soul.
stunningly beautiful. I am a Glaswegian, half of whose ancestors came to Glasgow from Ireland in the time of incredible suffering at the hands of the English who stole the food and committed atrocities against the poor.. This speaks of the pain we all feel at injustice, We need to cry for those souls who are still suffering from Imperialist shitheads in our Western Governments.
Cry all you want, the reality is that the poor in Ireland suffered far more at the hands of other Irishmen than they ever did at the hands of the English, who's poor also suffered at the hands of those in power. You use the term we when in reality it is your sentiments that you are broadcasting, the vast majority of people don't cry for the sins of the past committed by people long dead.
There are thousands of years of turmoil and grief woven into that land, Ireland and Scotland. You can hear the pain of the land woven into the music. Tragic and beautiful at the same time.
To you my friend,your tears are not waisted. They show the love over for your lost wife. And I too cry every time I listen to this beautiful music. I hope the pain of her passing has reduced but the joy of your life together is enhanced by this music. I’m not religious in any way but hope you find comfort in my thoughts. Your friend in the Ireland
So much love to you. In this time & the passing of time. A husband & wife is a beautiful thing & im grateful you took the time to comment what you were going through. I hope you’ve found some beauty & peace in the settling of the years. Much love 🧡
The greatest music coming from humans is from the countries of the UK. The richness and purity of their culture has not been matched by anybody in all of my 70 years. Every note of the performance gave me goose bumps.
This song and the way it's played proves without a doubt that we are more than just blood and bones, water and skin. There is no way that the physical can touch the soul like the music that is portrayed here. This proves we are a spirit and.... While reading the comments.. they prove that we are of kindred spirits on this ship called Earth no matter what race or country or gender Thank you all for being a part of my life. Thank you for the patience of me being part of yours.
I believe that too, with all that is in me. I am a black American woman, with only a few Irish ancestors. And this Irish music speaks to me always. The Playing For Change videos, are just such connections we have to each other, from anywhere in the world. I think you'll enjoy them.
Reminds me of home. I haven't been back in 45 years. I closed my eyes, I could see the bluffs near Sligo. I could hear my uncle playing, weeping at the same time.
My mother's 88 years old and also from Connaught (Leitrim) but hadn't been back home for several years because Dad had Alzheimer's. Dad passed away last October so Mum had the chance to head back to her hometown and had a whale of a time, going to bed at 5 in the morning, a real craic.
Without doubt. The most haunting piece of music ever played. I'm a stonecutter and spend lots of days alone working in cemeteries.I play this out loud as I sit inscribing headstones.It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every time. Erin go bra.
I'm a live sound engineer and worked for the show that this was played in. Every night I would tear up and be filled with a love for my chosen field. But not before or since has that amount of emotion been achieved by any other.A truly beautiful and inspirational piece.
I was a seating attendant at the Hammersmith show. When this was playing I just stood there, feeling the pulses up and down my spine. A very memorable experience.
It's the most beautiful Uillean pipe air ever composed. It sums up Ireland. The journey, the longing to find home both as a destination and place of origins. As an Irish American and professional Celtic musician, I can tell you this embodies everything about Celtic music. It's a masterpiece
I would like to send this music by the Grace of God . To my Dad, A Co Mayo Man . Who passed away March 1985. He would have loved this tune on the Uilleann Pipes. Rest in Peace Dad . From all of your Sons and Daughters .God Bless .
It takes an uilleann piper 7 years to learn 7 years to practice and 7 years to master and davy spillane is one of the best it will have be a recording because not many can play like that.
A Caoineadh, Lament, is one of the genre ' goltraí '.....songs to weep by. The other two genres are ' geantraí'......songs to accompany joy...... .....and súantraí.......songs to send a child to sleep. Save a fortune on psychiatry and psychology; immerse yourself in Irish music.
My mom and i used to listen to this song all the time, she always told me when it was her time to go, to have it played at her funeral, i lost my mother on september the 8th of this year after her courages battle with cancer, my step father would not have it played at her funeral ( asshole right ) but its ok mom the night after you were laid to rest i got in the car and blasted it as loud as i could just for you. I love you and i miss you.
My English family play this music for the funeral of my Irish great grandmother who sadly passed alway ten years at the age of 107 in 2007. Her coffin was draped over the Irish flag as she was lowed into the Irish soil next to her husband who she was married to for 80 years and never remarried. RIP Gram-Gram we still missed you😢🇮🇪.
And you don't even have to be a Celt to love this music or this instrument. It speaks very, very deeply to us. It resonates down my spine. But, everyone can enjoy it.
There's something amazingly haunting about Uilleann pipes. Any Bag pipe can be powerful but there's always been something about the Uilleann ones that sound like they're singing, or crying for that manner. They're extremely strong sounding as well.
Yep. Had the privilege of seeing Irish group Cara performing live 2 or 3 years ago at about 1,5 meters distance from me. The piper didn't play this tune, but what he did play had the same hauting cry to the pipes as this marvellous lament. Can still remember the tears and would definitely go to such another intimate concert as 2 years ago.
At 78 I'm an old road dog retired from the road at this point, but tons of stories and time to tell them. So if you're not into people's remembrances I understand. It isn't required reading lol! But if you are, here's one. I was fortunate enough to make my living in music most of my life. I was playing a gig one night and a friend of mine was recording a Stevie Ray Vaughn tribute on one of the pbs stations for me and he left it off at my house, so I was eager to get home and listen to it. It was VHS tape back in those days. So I came home, got into my PJ's and hit play. I had just started to make some videos with some primitive equipment and was learning about lighting etc. So this program starts that had some neat lighting going on and I thought, well this is interesting. Stevie Ray got him some lights lol! But then these dancers come forward and this show started and the "drums" to the music were the feet. Other percussion as well, but the feet stood out. And as a musician I'm always interested in seeing something I wasn't used to seeing. Well, before I know it, I'm no longer thinking about Stevie Ray, I'm just being blown away by all this Irish music and some of the best dancing I had ever seen. So I get further into the program because by this time, I'm taken in and I wasn't going anywhere. Then this. I sat there and tears started rolling down my face. It's a good thing I didn't have to talk because I could not have. I still get a lump in my throat when I hear this. But of course as we all know now, Riverdance. What a musical and dance spectacle. Like no other. I love this music!! I was given the gift of being able to play pretty much any instrument I set my mind to, and don't know how many I play at this point. So, as usual, when I hear an instrument I like I can usually just go get one and start learning. This definitely made me want to go and buy some pipes the next day only to realize that a good set hits near 10 grand lol! So I stuck with all my fretted and keyboard instruments. I did learn to make some music vids and still make my living doing it here on TH-cam. Thank you Lord for your blessings and the gift of Music!! The world would not be a very happy place without it. I still wonder if I could have successfully learned the instrument now that I know that it is one of the harder instruments to master. By the way, for those interested in some music history, Jubal, descendant of Cain of Cain and Able in the Bible, was known as the father of all who play the harp and the pipes. I can just imagine one day he was out hunting and realized that the bow string made a neat sound when he pulled back and let it go with an arrow. It was a short step for him to realize that as he's stringing his bow, the string made different sounds as it was tensioned differently during the stringing process. Another short distance to thinking, if I put several strings on this bow, I can have several tones at my disposal. I think I'll call it a harp. And being of a musical mind, he's probably getting some cane together for whatever and realized that when the wind blew over an open hole, wow. A neat sound. Wouldn't take much trial and error from there to put several tubes of various lengths together and, You know, these look like pipes so these will be the pipes. I would love to know what that early music sounded like. I'm quite sure at that point there was no chromatic scale yet! OK. Probably didn't happen quite like that, but it does make one wonder how it happened. By the way, I listened to the Stevie Ray tribute the next night. It was OK, but they needed some dancers lol!
Anotheryou21 very well said. I felt it followed the trajectory of intense grief, especially during the highest notes. As the emotion plays out there is a bit of relief and consolation reflected in a more relaxed tone towards the end. It is very reflective of the waves of grief and how they can roll over us.
The child seeing that the lord stood but two paces away, grinned and slowly relaxed his sphincter - like a pupil dilating - and pumped the fetid fumes from his colon into the lord's lungs - no brash breaking of wind; no gushing buttocks belching raucously - just a perfect hush as the air around them started to hum.
When I first heard this piece of music I was 14, it immediately created a vivid image of Cu Chulainn sitting on top of a mountain weeping. As each tear fell from his cheek to the ground he began to see the future of his kin, dying from hunger, persecuted, enslaved and murdered. This music speaks to my soul and always brings tears to my eyes as that image comes to me. It reminds me of my heritage, my family line and the sacrifices they made so that our music, dance, poems and art never died so that we can be blessed by it today in our time.
Irish people were enslaved by the British, we were not allowed to own our land, we couldn't speak our own language, sing or play our music, educate our children, practice our beliefs and culture. We couldn't even eat our own food. Our mothers were abducted, raped, tossed into convents or sent to work for British lords or in a lot of cases, beaten to death. Our Fathers were conscripted to the British Empire Army to be used as fodder in the name of the King or Queen whose goal was to assert control over weaker nations. You can debate all day whether the Irish were taken and sold as 'slaves', but no one can deny that the British enslaved Ireland, the remnants of the damage done is very visible to this day. The 'Irish Border' for example, should be the sea and not the one that separates the Republic from the North. Please don't tell me that we weren't enslaved, we were!
I am biracial. Irish, Scottish, Kenyan, and English. I remember watching this when I was 5yrs old. It made me cry then, and it still makes me cry at 27yrs old! 💖beautiful!
I love how even he nods with approval at 1.29, I must have listened to this song a thousand times. I just get it!!!!!! Davey Spillane, you are a legend to me.
anyone who fails to be deeply moved by this piece are either a very cold fish or a star trek vulcan !.its the most beautiful piece of music i have ever herd, played from the heart, never fails to bring a tear to my eye, also please forgive me if i get a bit heavy here, but the melody speaks to me of a long forgotten wisdom, lost in the mists of time. more please davy!
No, you're not the only one who thinks of it like that. This brings shivers to my spine every time I hear it (and I dislike the version from the 1996 edit of Riverdance Live in New York) Most music with uillean pipes has the same effect. My grandma passed away a month ago and I asked if they could play this at the funeral (as she loved this) but my dad had arranged something different. He played some version of 'Long Journey Home' by some Irish Orchestra, which was probably an even 'harder' part to sit through than this. It brought big tears and that didn't stop for the rest of the funeral ;)
i also dislike the 1996 version. i feel if its not played properly as per the original score, then, it should`nt be played at all (it should be a crime to adulterate this music) only joking!
Here is an spanish (Asturian) man crying before listenig this beutiful melody... Here we have also pipes but this man can make cry his uilleain, and made me also cry...
I want to meet Davy Spillane and give him such a big hug for this beautiful music and his skill to play it. This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
This song has kept me from committing suicide so many times...I just listen to it over and over and let all the pain drain out with each note as it touches me. Thank you Davy Spillane. In this song and Midnight Walker I find a place to shut out the world...❤❤
Keep the chin up. As a recovering alcoholic, I can tell you that it does get better, and that people do care. The world isn't as dark as it sometimes appears. Hopefully the three replies you've received offer some proof of that. We're pulling for you. God bless.
I'm from Italy but the father of my grandfa was from Cork. I can't find the words to explain what I felt when I've been there . I can't explain how a part of my soul , felt this sound so familiar , really I can't. But Irish blood never lies. Eireann go brath**SORRY** ÉIRINN GO BRAGH!!
Some of the most beautiful music in the world. It surpasses anything that could be made with all the electronic gear in the world. This has soul, it has grace, it is a gift from God! It makes me cry to hear the sad lament, it makes me miss my Irish mother, God rest her soul!
THIS SONG IS THE SONG RESPONSIBLE FOR MY FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE UILLEANN PIPES (and making certain I made sure I ended up with a song on my album that had authentic uilleann pipes played by a brilliant musician in Nashville. The late great Hunter Lee. Such a deeply meaningful time in the studio with him. And of course, I wept as he lay down his tracks) ♥️
~Irish blues glisten with warm tears that no words can rightly express, as upon mind's canvas, images are clear and crisply painted. Emerald fields... bluest skies...gentle waters sweetly whispering... Home...~
It was said of the Irish (by someone who knew us well( that 'All their wars are happy, all their songs are sad'. None sadder that this beautiful piece played by a master.
Why can I never watch this without tears streaming down my face at the end. It's so incredibly sorrowful. Beautiful... absolutely beautiful ...even if it does always make me cry.
This is how I feel all my life...Belfast was left behind... the south got on with it. It's like looking back at an island when 3/4 of your people your fought with and for...walked on.
I heard this live in London, 1995/6 riverdance. When this came on I just burst into tears, no reason, just couldn’t control myself. Had to excuse myself , so embarrassed …
Being Irish and having worked abroad for 34 years I always get the tug of heart strings for home and remembering my dear friends who have passed especially my mother and younger brother 😢🇮🇪🍀
I'm arabic, born and raised in Denmark, but always felt I've lived a past life in Ireland... Don't know why... but I'm obessesed with Irish music, it's culture and ginger women! Always have been!
I heard this when I saw the show the first time, omg, I cried like a baby. It touched me in a way no other music has, and I can listen to this over and over and never get tired of hearing the beautiful sound of the Uilleann Pipe. Davy Spillane is an Outstanding Musician.
I was born in Portugal and there was a strong Irish/Scottish link with Portugal in the bygone days. This music speaks directly to the soul. Still cant listen to this without breaking into tears. Cant imagine how Davy can sit there and play this without breaking down
us Irish never forget that Europe is mostly Celts. thats why the European union is a Celtic union, and us Irish want to stay with or French, German, Italian etc cousins, who may fight with each other now and again but what family doesn't have a falling out now and again, we our Celts after all, fighting is in our blood.
Ag taisteal domh amach fríd chnoic Ghleann Domhain, 's an Mhucais ar mo chúl, Ní miste domh 'ra le brón 's le crá, gur fhreasach a shil mise súil. Go 'Meiriceá siar, a bhí mo thriall, I bhfad thar an fharraige mhór. D'fhag mé slán ar feadh seal ag Dún na nGall, 's ag Gleanntáin Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair. As I journeyed on through Glendowan's hills, with Muckish to the rear, With a heart full of pain I felt no shame, 'twas there that I shed bitter tears. I was bound for the shores of America, Far across the wild raging foam. I bade farewell for a spell to Donegal, and the green glens of Gaoth Dobhair.
The day my Grandmother died, I played this track on the Riverdance CD and I burst out in tears and sobbed. Before that I was just numb, and this broke the emotional damn for me.
I've never been to Ireland and, as far as I know, none of my ancestors were from that magical place. But this music stirs something deep inside me, almost a longing that I cannot explain. I plan to visit Ireland before I pass on, if nothing more, than to hear that music played live.
Music knows no boundaries and whenever I listen to the Uilleann pipes I feel like crying. Hey, and I come from a small Latin American country, Guatemala. My most treasured memories are from Ireland when I visited. Davy Spillane, I've been listening to your music for a long time and never get tired of it.
Today we feel our deep loss, and rejoice at the new-found higher state of being of the wonderful Liam Óg ÓFlynn. The piper is with the poet now. Adieu Liam. Níl sa bhás ach malairt beatha.
NOW THIS...this is jawdropping. When I saw Riverdance live at the beginning of this year, I heard this and couldn't close my mouth or hold in any tears. This is beautiful! 😍😍😍
Saw him down the local last Sunday night,he was playing this tune..........the only tears that were shed was at closing time......no more pints of porter........
I, too was blessed to see Riverdance live. That night will stay with me for the rest of my life. I am so proud to be Irish. My grandfather was born there. I've never been there...but I can dream.
Just about to pack up from the north of Ireland to spend a week in the wilds of the Dingle peninsula. I spent 15 years bringing my kids here for their summer holidays. Now they are all grown up with kids if their own and want to let their kids enjoy the simple pleasures of how it was for them. Saturday morning 6am convoy heading south. Can't wait to climb a hill and immerse myself in this beautiful country with this beautiful music.
I'm a grown man and I cried like a baby listening to this, a lot of lovely memories came flooding to me of my childhood, lost loves, the times we spent with my now deceased grandfather... Everyone has good memories and this is the song to bring em back. Well done
Ich weiß nicht was der Mann gefühlt hat als er dieses Stück gespielt hat. Ich vermute es war der Schmerz der ganzen Welt. Ich habe vorher noch nie ein Instrument weinen hören. Ich heule jedesmal rotz und Wasser wenn ich ich das höre. Nie war ich so dankbar für einen einzigen Moment in meinem Leben. Ich würde euch gern teilhaben lassen an meinen Gefühlen, wenn ich nachts am Feuer sitze und das Stück so laut höre das es mich wundert das niemand die Polizei ruft. Ich kann nur Danke sagen. Nicht mehr, nicht weniger. Gott, es zerreißt mir die Seele
Nightwing,the title means Chulainn's Lament in English.(pronounced Ka hoo lan) Davy tours regularly, if you ever have a chance to see him, GO! He's a dear man and an old friend and probably the best pipe player in Ireland Patrick from Cork City
Id love to see him myself im not sure if he has ever played here in Belfast but his music has its own personal story for people its very moving and epic! Personaly it reminds me of loved ones, Old Irish kings and Republican Heros such as Bobby Sands ect. Im not biggot or anything but they always slip into my mind when i hear this
The bends of the notes are incredible and cut to the very core of my soul. One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. I told my wife years ago this is what I want to be played at my graveside service when I pass on from this life.
I remember being a little kid from Canada on vacation to Florida with my family (20 years ago now - yikes...so I was about 9). For whatever reason, my sister and I decided to watch T.V one evening rather than play around the pool at some nice tiki looking outdoor hotel. After fighting over whether to watch exotic American cartoons or River Dance on our tiny tube T.V in our room, my sister eventually won out and (although I'll reluctantly admit this to close friends only haha) I really enjoyed it. However, when it came to this piece, it hit me like a mac truck. Folk music was always a staple in our home, but this piece just cut me to the soul. I probably wouldn't remember anything about that trip or that night these days, but this damn song for whatever reason has frozen that night into my mind, and I've come back to it ever since. Although I haven't picked up the pipes, it did inspire me to acquire a Low D whistle which I've been enjoying for some time now. I'd like to go to Ireland to learn the pipes and even how to make them - maybe starting a business in Canada. Strange how one song can affect a life. :)
You can come and learn to make the pipes in a new workshop in Santry in north Dublin. people from all over the world have come to learn there, and you can do it in stages to. You learn to make a practice set first (no drones) and come again later to learn drone making. I struggle to make reeds never mind chanters.
The thing is, though, that this is not folk music. It's using a folk instrument (Uillean pipes) with a synthesiser providing the chords and pads. Without the synth, the Uillean pipes would be just that, with their mournful sounds. Without the pipes, the synth would be merely some pretty, but boring sounds. Together, however, they create something magical. That which is called "Irish music" heavily depends on synthesisers, and as such is hardly traditional, but it's beautifully made. And that, in my opinion, is what counts most.
It’s certainly not traditional folk music, as it was written by Bill Whelan for Riverdance in the 90’s. However, I think it’s safe to classify this piece in the folk revival category. It’s clear he’s trying to establish a connection to the country's traditional Irish folk roots. I think the synthesizer and pipes work well in this instance to heighten the overall emotional tone of the piece, but that doesn’t go to say that all Irish folk music needs an electric component to succeed, nor that all traditional Irish bands are using it. I mean just take a look at Lunasa. I’d classify them folk revival as well. There isn’t an electric instrument to be heard, and I dare you to say they aren’t able to generate the same emotional intensity in their music.
I am a Dutchman with apparently Scottish roots. What a beautiful and penetrating sound this is. Irish or Scottish (or Dutch related) It is what touches you. And it always does.
Nothing makes me more proud to have the Irish as my neighbours setting all politics aside as it has no purpose on TH-cam. Honestly this is the most pleasing melody and it really helps me just to relax release any stress I carry. I would love to learn to play an instrument like this just beautiful
This poignant lament reminds me of something my father told me a long time ago. "For God hath made the Celts mad, for all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad"
Incorrect quote The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. G K Chesterton. The ballad of the white horse.
2:47 = C major chord into a Dsus and then leading to the most climactic point of the piece on a G Major chord at 2:55 when he's playing a B5 to C6. So majestic. What really makes it go - other than Davy's exceptional talent and playing ability - is the sweeping orchestral background. Totally diatonic piece with no chromaticism but yet so powerful.
I want this to be played at my funeral, otherwise i'm not coming.
I love your wit and I totally feel the same. 💯❤️
I have told my kids the same....this is my funeral song...if I get one with the Covid 19 Issue.
That’s impossible
haha
This has to be one of my favourite youtube comments ever 😂
I'm a Scotsman, but like most people in Scotland, we have ALOT of time for the Irish, and i can understand how this calls to them, it calls to me in the same way, it saddens me to think of the lament of Ireland, through all the grief and persecution heaped on her shoulders, for no reason. But, 20 miles across the sea in Scotland, the door is always open, and the fire is always roaring, with a wee dram, for our Irish kin and cousins. Erin gu brath, Alba gu brath :)
Much appreciated. If I was going to live anywhere else in these islands it'd definitely be Scotland. Don't think I could stomach living in England. Good luck in the Euros!
As is our door to ye, our cousins in time. Alba gu brath!
Shut up you american
@@jimmyray7843 we are clan and always will be .
Bréagha!
One of the most beautiful pieces of music I ever heard. ❤️🍀
This stirs my irish soul. 😢
My father's favourite song. He passed away just after Christmas. Played this at his funeral. Tears were flowing.
I measc na naomh go raibh sé
Played it at my grandpa's funeral today. Someone who took care of shopping his groceries for 2,5-3 years mentioned afterwards "the bagpipe just cut through my soul like nothing I ever experienced before!"
Saw that person completely wrecked during the service as well, felt heartbroken for her.
@@Dutch3DMaster go n-déanfaidh Día grást d'anam do seanathar.
@@Dutch3DMasteruileann pipe ❤️
Sorry for your loss.
There is nothing, no words, no actions, no drugs like this song. I suffer from extreme. mind bending, heart breaking, soul crushing depression from time to time. At the worst of times I take a copy of the song, crank up my 500 watt stereo in my van on a remote hill top and let this song scream out into the night. It seems to take all the pain and darkness away as it thunders out over the hills and valleys. Thank you for allowing me to find peace and a little bit of happiness.
Wishing you every strength there
As Chesterton said: the Gaels of Ireland are a folk that God made mad. Wars make them happy and songs make them sad.
I can't explain it and I won't ask you to. But I've been in that van as well.
Happiness to you.
@@johndougherty68 I have heard the same but never knew who said it. Thank you for sharing
I can fully understand this. I had a place on one of the hills a few miles from here I lived where I went to listen to music, look over the valley at the setting sun, and weep. I hope this amazingly talented artist continues to sooth your soul.
Hang in there… theres light at the end of every tunnel
stunningly beautiful. I am a Glaswegian, half of whose ancestors came to Glasgow from Ireland in the time of incredible suffering at the hands of the English who stole the food and committed atrocities against the poor.. This speaks of the pain we all feel at injustice, We need to cry for those souls who are still suffering from Imperialist shitheads in our Western Governments.
Cry all you want, the reality is that the poor in Ireland suffered far more at the hands of other Irishmen than they ever did at the hands of the English, who's poor also suffered at the hands of those in power.
You use the term we when in reality it is your sentiments that you are broadcasting, the vast majority of people don't cry for the sins of the past committed by people long dead.
Why do people cry when hearing this instrument? I'm a man and I have tears in my eyes. Is that normal? This is so beautiful
Pretty normal yes. Abnormal not to really.
HAUNTING....sad then being raised up...like a hopeful feeling. It hit the SAD CORD in my soul. It touched my core.
HAUNTING....sad then being raised up...like a hopeful feeling. It hit the SAD CORD in my soul. It touched my core.
There are thousands of years of turmoil and grief woven into that land, Ireland and Scotland. You can hear the pain of the land woven into the music. Tragic and beautiful at the same time.
🥺It captures and follows sad emotions...then sounds hopeful and uplifting, soaring out on the other side
I love this so much. I lost my dear wife to cancer 7 weeks ago and I'm bawling my eyes out right now listening to this
48dirtfarmer ...Very Sorry to hear that mate, but I’m sure she’s close by as you hear this music. It’s the music of Heaven itself..🍀
I'm so sorry. She will be in a good place don't worry. 💖
To you my friend,your tears are not waisted. They show the love over for your lost wife. And I too cry every time I listen to this beautiful music. I hope the pain of her passing has reduced but the joy of your life together is enhanced by this music. I’m not religious in any way but hope you find comfort in my thoughts. Your friend in the Ireland
Sorry for your loss, I'm a liver cancer patient, and I'm a Christian preacher of Gods word. Bless you..💙
So much love to you. In this time & the passing of time. A husband & wife is a beautiful thing & im grateful you took the time to comment what you were going through. I hope you’ve found some beauty & peace in the settling of the years. Much love 🧡
imagine waking up in a morning knowing you can play this good !!!!
I would do it in locations not expected. Like at work on lunch break. This sound hits my soul my heart my mind. It opens up locked away thoughts.
I’ve been watching this since I was 7 years old; I’ll be 32 tomorrow and this song has made me cry every time.
Are you me?
Same. Parents had the Riverdance VHS. Still makes me cry.
The greatest music coming from humans is from the countries of the UK. The richness and purity of their culture has not been matched by anybody in all of my 70 years. Every note of the performance gave me goose bumps.
I've known this piece since highschool
Me too 😢
I'm from Norway. The most touchable music I've ever heard! Thanks! Sincerely Roger/ Arve Vigulf Norway.
The most beautiful sound on earth. Ireland, where all good music is born. 🇮🇪
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Im Irish, thank you but our Scottish cousins or masters at the music as well
So true .I just love this sound .Brings a tear to my eye.
I am Dutch but this is one of the most beautiful music there is. Love it!
@@relentless1989l just favour the Uileann pipes over all instruments. Personally.
This song and the way it's played proves without a doubt that we are more than just blood and bones, water and skin. There is no way that the physical can touch the soul like the music that is portrayed here. This proves we are a spirit and.... While reading the comments.. they prove that we are of kindred spirits on this ship called Earth no matter what race or country or gender
Thank you all for being a part of my life. Thank you for the patience of me being part of yours.
Lovely.
I believe that too, with all that is in me. I am a black American woman, with only a few Irish ancestors. And this Irish music speaks to me always. The Playing For Change videos, are just such connections we have to each other, from anywhere in the world.
I think you'll enjoy them.
That was lovely...God bless you!
Glad you were born!!! ❤😊
Reminds me of home. I haven't been back in 45 years. I closed my eyes, I could see the bluffs near Sligo. I could hear my uncle playing, weeping at the same time.
Ruth: you need to go home!
My mother's 88 years old and also from Connaught (Leitrim) but hadn't been back home for several years because Dad had Alzheimer's. Dad passed away last October so Mum had the chance to head back to her hometown and had a whale of a time, going to bed at 5 in the morning, a real craic.
We're all warriors, live, love and laugh. My heart will forever be broken!
@Jay M that’s a lovely thing to say you must be proud
Hope you have been back since posting this comment, even for a visit
Without doubt. The most haunting piece of music ever played. I'm a stonecutter and spend lots of days alone working in cemeteries.I play this out loud as I sit inscribing headstones.It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every time. Erin go bra.
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@@SaoirsenahÉireann1 so,i take it you agree,,,,,,,
I'm a live sound engineer and worked for the show that this was played in. Every night I would tear up and be filled with a love for my chosen field. But not before or since has that amount of emotion been achieved by any other.A truly beautiful and inspirational piece.
What mic did you use for them out of interest? Also did you compress them or anything?
Your very lucky i wish it was me, ,Wat a memory
I just can't imagine how amazing it would have been to be sitting live in that audience as this was played!
I was a seating attendant at the Hammersmith show. When this was playing I just stood there, feeling the pulses up and down my spine. A very memorable experience.
Gaelic music speaks to the soul of those that are Gaelic and some of those who arent
One of the most heart moving pieces of music ever played.
John Bailey
Ben G i second that but this is unreal. Socialist Solidarity from Ireland to the great Russian motherland
@@BenjaminGalbraith1
Not quite the same sentiment though 😂
I agree
It's the most beautiful Uillean pipe air ever composed. It sums up Ireland. The journey, the longing to find home both as a destination and place of origins. As an Irish American and professional Celtic musician, I can tell you this embodies everything about Celtic music. It's a masterpiece
It's wonderful alright..., but are you sure you have heard all the others?🙂
@@jamesdonalfaulkner Have I heard all 15000 Irish tunes and song. I'm only at five thousand so I'll let you know
Math thu! Stick at it! 👏@@cwaltzmusic
I would like to send this music by the Grace of God . To my Dad, A Co Mayo Man . Who passed away March 1985. He would have loved this tune on the Uilleann Pipes. Rest in Peace Dad . From all of your Sons and Daughters .God Bless .
This is going to be played at my funeral when my time comes
It takes an uilleann piper 7 years to learn 7 years to practice and 7 years to master and davy spillane is one of the best it will have be a recording because not many can play like that.
I played it at my mothers funeral,and i still cry,when i hear it
Paul Baxter Do you play the pipes yourself
I still be with you!
Seems pointless. You won't even know.
1.000.000 Million views for a wonderful music - unbelievable!!!
Many thanks to all friends around the world!
Bernhard Romeni Thank you so much for this video...Davy, talent, of course ...
Thanks very much indeed for posting,
Bernhard Romeni :)
Bernhard......THANK YOU for giving me many memorable times listening to this true MASTERPIECE. Xxxx
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1 million*?
Played this at my mums funeral...The memories still break my heart.
A Caoineadh, Lament, is one of the genre ' goltraí '.....songs to weep by.
The other two genres are ' geantraí'......songs to accompany joy......
.....and súantraí.......songs to send a child to sleep.
Save a fortune on psychiatry and psychology; immerse yourself in Irish music.
My mom and i used to listen to this song all the time, she always told me when it was her time to go, to have it played at her funeral, i lost my mother on september the 8th of this year after her courages battle with cancer, my step father would not have it played at her funeral ( asshole right ) but its ok mom the night after you were laid to rest i got in the car and blasted it as loud as i could just for you. I love you and i miss you.
God forgive your Stepfather it's his loss and fair play to you💚🤍💛
My English family play this music for the funeral of my Irish great grandmother who sadly passed alway ten years at the age of 107 in 2007. Her coffin was draped over the Irish flag as she was lowed into the Irish soil next to her husband who she was married to for 80 years and never remarried. RIP Gram-Gram we still missed you😢🇮🇪.
Byzantine Soldier my condolences. It’s a lovely tune.
Thank you for your account, Byzantine Soldier.
RIP & 'welcome Home'.
🙁🙏☘️
107yrs old. Damn, what a life
codladh samh
Memory eternal!
And you don't even have to be a Celt to love this music or this instrument. It speaks very, very deeply to us. It resonates down my spine. But, everyone can enjoy it.
Indeed, I’m from an island in the Caribbean and come by from time to time to listen to this beautiful piece of music. Nothing like it.
Absolutely -- for us who don't agree with what our forefathers and birthplace stands for, this music touches me as a human.
As a Gael, I proudly offer this to you, as it touches my soul, so might it touch yours. My hand in yours, Brother.
Music is the language of the soul. It knows no borderline or race, we're lucky to have it.
I am British and love this music more than anything.
August 2024 and im here again cos i love this song!
My dad loved this one. Every time I listen to it , I can’t help but remember him. I hope he is smiling down at me from heaven. Miss you daddy! ❤
John chapter 5 verse 28,29.
There's something amazingly haunting about Uilleann pipes. Any Bag pipe can be powerful but there's always been something about the Uilleann ones that sound like they're singing, or crying for that manner. They're extremely strong sounding as well.
Completely agree. I've always thought the pipes sound like they're sobbing in this song. Especially at 2:33.
Yep. Had the privilege of seeing Irish group Cara performing live 2 or 3 years ago at about 1,5 meters distance from me. The piper didn't play this tune, but what he did play had the same hauting cry to the pipes as this marvellous lament. Can still remember the tears and would definitely go to such another intimate concert as 2 years ago.
it comes with a soul....
There’s a lot of painful history with Ireland. That’s why.
Its felt in our blood , my blood sings with emotion
At 78 I'm an old road dog retired from the road at this point, but tons of stories and time to tell them. So if you're not into people's remembrances I understand. It isn't required reading lol! But if you are, here's one.
I was fortunate enough to make my living in music most of my life. I was playing a gig one night and a friend of mine was recording a Stevie Ray Vaughn tribute on one of the pbs stations for me and he left it off at my house, so I was eager to get home and listen to it. It was VHS tape back in those days. So I came home, got into my PJ's and hit play.
I had just started to make some videos with some primitive equipment and was learning about lighting etc. So this program starts that had some neat lighting going on and I thought, well this is interesting. Stevie Ray got him some lights lol! But then these dancers come forward and this show started and the "drums" to the music were the feet. Other percussion as well, but the feet stood out. And as a musician I'm always interested in seeing something I wasn't used to seeing.
Well, before I know it, I'm no longer thinking about Stevie Ray, I'm just being blown away by all this Irish music and some of the best dancing I had ever seen. So I get further into the program because by this time, I'm taken in and I wasn't going anywhere. Then this. I sat there and tears started rolling down my face. It's a good thing I didn't have to talk because I could not have. I still get a lump in my throat when I hear this. But of course as we all know now, Riverdance. What a musical and dance spectacle. Like no other. I love this music!!
I was given the gift of being able to play pretty much any instrument I set my mind to, and don't know how many I play at this point. So, as usual, when I hear an instrument I like I can usually just go get one and start learning. This definitely made me want to go and buy some pipes the next day only to realize that a good set hits near 10 grand lol! So I stuck with all my fretted and keyboard instruments.
I did learn to make some music vids and still make my living doing it here on TH-cam. Thank you Lord for your blessings and the gift of Music!! The world would not be a very happy place without it. I still wonder if I could have successfully learned the instrument now that I know that it is one of the harder instruments to master.
By the way, for those interested in some music history, Jubal, descendant of Cain of Cain and Able in the Bible, was known as the father of all who play the harp and the pipes. I can just imagine one day he was out hunting and realized that the bow string made a neat sound when he pulled back and let it go with an arrow. It was a short step for him to realize that as he's stringing his bow, the string made different sounds as it was tensioned differently during the stringing process. Another short distance to thinking, if I put several strings on this bow, I can have several tones at my disposal. I think I'll call it a harp.
And being of a musical mind, he's probably getting some cane together for whatever and realized that when the wind blew over an open hole, wow. A neat sound. Wouldn't take much trial and error from there to put several tubes of various lengths together and, You know, these look like pipes so these will be the pipes. I would love to know what that early music sounded like. I'm quite sure at that point there was no chromatic scale yet! OK. Probably didn't happen quite like that, but it does make one wonder how it happened.
By the way, I listened to the Stevie Ray tribute the next night. It was OK, but they needed some dancers lol!
Rien de mieux pour rappeler le martyre de ce peuple Irlandais ☘️ Respect ! ✊
Most beautiful and moving pipes ever!
English through and through ...this piece is so moving ..so proud of my Irish friends ..beutiful country ..beutiful people ....
The essence of grief, distilled into the most poignantly ravishing sound I have ever heard. Thank you.
Anotheryou21 very well said. I felt it followed the trajectory of intense grief, especially
during the highest notes. As the emotion plays out there is a bit of relief and consolation reflected in a more relaxed tone towards the end. It is very reflective of the waves of grief and how they can roll over us.
Fantastic way to describe it!!
The lord touched the child’s brow, and in a gentle voice said. “Davy, take this instrument and convey my sorrow for the hearts of the troubled”.
The child seeing that the lord stood but two paces away, grinned and slowly relaxed his sphincter - like a pupil dilating - and pumped the fetid fumes from his colon into the lord's lungs - no brash breaking of wind; no gushing buttocks belching raucously - just a perfect hush as the air around them started to hum.
😭😭😭
Beautifully put Matthew.
Do you write poetry?
I'm a proud Scotsman and love the sound of the pipes. My wife and I have seen Riverdance which was fantastic. These pipes are special and very moving.
When I first heard this piece of music I was 14, it immediately created a vivid image of Cu Chulainn sitting on top of a mountain weeping. As each tear fell from his cheek to the ground he began to see the future of his kin, dying from hunger, persecuted, enslaved and murdered. This music speaks to my soul and always brings tears to my eyes as that image comes to me. It reminds me of my heritage, my family line and the sacrifices they made so that our music, dance, poems and art never died so that we can be blessed by it today in our time.
Paul Baker Irish were never enslaved
@@vestty5802 Tens of thousands of Irish people were sent to the Caribbean by Cromwell allegedly after rebelling against English control
Fionn yes but most of the Irish in the Carribean were not sent by cromwell
Very nice👏🏻🇮🇪
Irish people were enslaved by the British, we were not allowed to own our land, we couldn't speak our own language, sing or play our music, educate our children, practice our beliefs and culture. We couldn't even eat our own food. Our mothers were abducted, raped, tossed into convents or sent to work for British lords or in a lot of cases, beaten to death. Our Fathers were conscripted to the British Empire Army to be used as fodder in the name of the King or Queen whose goal was to assert control over weaker nations. You can debate all day whether the Irish were taken and sold as 'slaves', but no one can deny that the British enslaved Ireland, the remnants of the damage done is very visible to this day. The 'Irish Border' for example, should be the sea and not the one that separates the Republic from the North. Please don't tell me that we weren't enslaved, we were!
I am biracial. Irish, Scottish, Kenyan, and English. I remember watching this when I was 5yrs old. It made me cry then, and it still makes me cry at 27yrs old! 💖beautiful!
@@kingofstars102 why is that, pray tell?
No you are not
Don't listen to them. Fuck them. Failte romhait a dheirfuir.
I am moved to tears every time I listen to this. Lights off, volume up, eyes closed. Wow.
Grow up loser
I love how even he nods with approval at 1.29, I must have listened to this song a thousand times. I just get it!!!!!! Davey Spillane, you are a legend to me.
This music is calling me home to a nation i never knew i belonged to
There are pipes and then there's Davy Spillane .........
Beautiful
tá sé ar dhuine de na ceoltóirí is fearr thart
Paul you're right. There are pipes... then there's Davy.
Davy is a genius 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Simple as that🇮🇪
He's a master.
I have never been so moved by a piece of music.
anyone who fails to be deeply moved by this piece are either a very cold fish or
a star trek vulcan !.its the most beautiful piece of music i have ever herd, played from the heart, never fails to bring a tear to my eye, also please forgive me if i get a bit heavy here, but the melody speaks to me of a long forgotten wisdom, lost in the mists of time. more please davy!
No, you're not the only one who thinks of it like that. This brings shivers to my spine every time I hear it (and I dislike the version from the 1996 edit of Riverdance Live in New York)
Most music with uillean pipes has the same effect.
My grandma passed away a month ago and I asked if they could play this at the funeral (as she loved this) but my dad had arranged something different. He played some version of 'Long Journey Home' by some Irish Orchestra, which was probably an even 'harder' part to sit through than this. It brought big tears and that didn't stop for the rest of the funeral ;)
i also dislike the 1996 version. i feel if its not played properly as per the original score, then, it should`nt be played at all (it should be a crime to adulterate this music)
only joking!
Here is an spanish (Asturian) man crying before listenig this beutiful melody... Here we have also pipes but this man can make cry his uilleain, and made me also cry...
Viva Asturias! Xxx
This stunningly beautiful piece of music is the absolute essence of Ireland
I will be buried to this tune....most amazing piece of music....you must be already dead if you feel no emotion when listening to this
Great minds think alike friend. I've always intended the very same thing.
I want to meet Davy Spillane and give him such a big hug for this beautiful music and his skill to play it.
This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
This song has kept me from committing suicide so many times...I just listen to it over and over and let all the pain drain out with each note as it touches me.
Thank you Davy Spillane. In this song and Midnight Walker I find a place to shut out the world...❤❤
While it makes me want to out of thinking back to everything that's gone wrong and that I screwed up for myself after discovering the song 😭😭
Please never suffer in silence....reach out...always someone to listen 🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️❤️
Keep the chin up. As a recovering alcoholic, I can tell you that it does get better, and that people do care. The world isn't as dark as it sometimes appears. Hopefully the three replies you've received offer some proof of that. We're pulling for you. God bless.
I am wishing you well, Jennifer, and know that people care about you.
@@travelertomlinson Thank you Luv... God is my best friend and He brings me JOY and GLADNESS. I'd be lost without Him...
God bless you!! 🙏🏼
I'm from Italy but the father of my grandfa was from Cork. I can't find the words to explain what I felt when I've been there . I can't explain how a part of my soul , felt this sound so familiar , really I can't. But Irish blood never lies. Eireann go brath**SORRY** ÉIRINN GO BRAGH!!
Bless you
And Im Irish with some Italian blood. The Azzopardis and the Falzons. My fathers family even look Italian.
@IRISH JAY IRISH JAY thanks
From the states, mom's side of the family is from Cork. Keep well.
Some of the most beautiful music in the world. It surpasses anything that could be made with all the electronic gear in the world. This has soul, it has grace, it is a gift from God! It makes me cry to hear the sad lament, it makes me miss my Irish mother, God rest her soul!
She must have been a lovely mummy RIP
Amen!
Invokes so much emotion..there will be Uilleann Pipes in Heaven..
Debra Wood kdskkweksk the
ieeieiowoweirurueuuyhu
Aye there will be - that's how we know it will be Heaven. If it is Scottish bagpipes we're in the wrong place.
played this at my Dad's funeral 25 years ago, fathers day today! 🙂
I'd like this played at my funeral!
Da geht mir das Herz auf und Freudentränen rollen runter - Danke.!
This piece makes me think of my little Brother who I just lost 7 months AGO! I hope he can hear it in Heaven. And know I'LL always Love and miss him!
John chapter 5 verse 28,29.
THIS SONG IS THE SONG RESPONSIBLE FOR MY FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE UILLEANN PIPES (and making certain I made sure I ended up with a song on my album that had authentic uilleann pipes played by a brilliant musician in Nashville. The late great Hunter Lee. Such a deeply meaningful time in the studio with him. And of course, I wept as he lay down his tracks) ♥️
~Irish blues glisten with warm tears that no words can rightly express, as upon mind's canvas, images are clear and crisply painted. Emerald fields... bluest skies...gentle waters sweetly whispering... Home...~
Just say you like it
I said I love it, in my own words. :)
J. Rossi And well said i to miss my home
Your a real writer. your use of words are great
Thank you kindly, Sir.
This song makes me think of my dad who I lost in 2016 to cancer. I miss him each and every day.
May he rest in peace...
This melody, to me, sounds like the anguished cry of the soul. It's both touching and heart breaking. It brings me to tears every time.
Amen
For the great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
-- G. K. Chesterton.
It was said of the Irish (by someone who knew us well( that 'All their wars are happy, all their songs are sad'. None sadder that this beautiful piece played by a master.
listen to this. niall
Very soulful
+Joe Gantly
''The Gaels are the Race
that God made mad
For all their wars are merry
and all their songs are sad''
G.W.K. Chesterton
For all u who cried, all of u who love ,all of u who smiled listening to this thank you.
You are true lovers of music.
Why can I never watch this without tears streaming down my face at the end. It's so incredibly sorrowful. Beautiful... absolutely beautiful ...even if it does always make me cry.
This is how I feel all my life...Belfast was left behind... the south got on with it. It's like looking back at an island when 3/4 of your people your fought with and for...walked on.
I heard this live in London, 1995/6 riverdance. When this came on I just burst into tears, no reason, just couldn’t control myself. Had to excuse myself , so embarrassed …
Being Irish and having worked abroad for 34 years I always get the tug of heart strings for home and remembering my dear friends who have passed especially my mother and younger brother 😢🇮🇪🍀
I'm arabic, born and raised in Denmark, but always felt I've lived a past life in Ireland... Don't know why... but I'm obessesed with Irish music, it's culture and ginger women! Always have been!
I'm from Brazil, but I love sooo much this amazing song!!❤
I heard this when I saw the show the first time, omg, I cried like a baby. It touched me in a way no other music has, and I can listen to this over and over and never get tired of hearing the beautiful sound of the Uilleann Pipe. Davy Spillane is an Outstanding Musician.
I was born in Portugal and there was a strong Irish/Scottish link with Portugal in the bygone days. This music speaks directly to the soul. Still cant listen to this without breaking into tears. Cant imagine how Davy can sit there and play this without breaking down
Don’t forget that the French also have Celtic origins. We are touched by the sound of the pipes as well. We just call it the cornemuse.
Dumnorix (Gallois)......"Domhan Rí " ( Irlandais )......" Le Roi du Monde " ( Francais)
us Irish never forget that Europe is mostly Celts. thats why the European union is a Celtic union, and us Irish want to stay with or French, German, Italian etc cousins, who may fight with each other now and again but what family doesn't have a falling out now and again, we our Celts after all, fighting is in our blood.
Ag taisteal domh amach fríd chnoic Ghleann Domhain, 's an Mhucais ar mo chúl,
Ní miste domh 'ra le brón 's le crá, gur fhreasach a shil mise súil.
Go 'Meiriceá siar, a bhí mo thriall,
I bhfad thar an fharraige mhór.
D'fhag mé slán ar feadh seal ag Dún na nGall, 's ag Gleanntáin Ghlas Ghaoth Dobhair.
As I journeyed on through Glendowan's hills, with Muckish to the rear,
With a heart full of pain I felt no shame, 'twas there that I shed bitter tears.
I was bound for the shores of America,
Far across the wild raging foam.
I bade farewell for a spell to Donegal, and the green glens of Gaoth Dobhair.
The day my Grandmother died, I played this track on the Riverdance CD and I burst out in tears and sobbed. Before that I was just numb, and this broke the emotional damn for me.
I don’t think there is a single other song in the world that gives me full body goosebumps more than this performance.
Have a listen to "Secret Garden"'s "Hymn to Hope".
It's even more poignant, if that's possible
Literally one the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard
As a Scottish person this makes me cry at the end it makes my heat feel what its like for it to break.
Wow my hairs stood on end truly amazing !!!! I love Ireland 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 this song just makes you love life !!! I want this playing at my funeral
a poem without words
I've never been to Ireland and, as far as I know, none of my ancestors were from that magical place. But this music stirs something deep inside me, almost a longing that I cannot explain. I plan to visit Ireland before I pass on, if nothing more, than to hear that music played live.
You have to go!
Music knows no boundaries and whenever I listen to the Uilleann pipes I feel like crying. Hey, and I come from a small Latin American country, Guatemala. My most treasured memories are from Ireland when I visited. Davy Spillane, I've been listening to your music for a long time and never get tired of it.
Today we feel our deep loss, and rejoice at the new-found higher state of being of the wonderful Liam Óg ÓFlynn. The piper is with the poet now. Adieu Liam. Níl sa bhás ach malairt beatha.
No shame to cry to such music. Thanks for sharing.
NOW THIS...this is jawdropping. When I saw Riverdance live at the beginning of this year, I heard this and couldn't close my mouth or hold in any tears. This is beautiful! 😍😍😍
Emma Hutchings o
Saw him down the local last Sunday night,he was playing this tune..........the only tears that were shed was at closing time......no more pints of porter........
I saw Riverdance also some years ago.. I remember Davy and this piece... Hairs standing on back of neck...The power of music!
I, too was blessed to see Riverdance live. That night will stay with me for the rest of my life. I am so proud to be Irish. My grandfather was born there. I've never been there...but I can dream.
Just about to pack up from the north of Ireland to spend a week in the wilds of the Dingle peninsula. I spent 15 years bringing my kids here for their summer holidays. Now they are all grown up with kids if their own and want to let their kids enjoy the simple pleasures of how it was for them. Saturday morning 6am convoy heading south. Can't wait to climb a hill and immerse myself in this beautiful country with this beautiful music.
Never has any musical piece grabbed my soul like this. Davy Spillane is amazing.
I'm a grown man and I cried like a baby listening to this, a lot of lovely memories came flooding to me of my childhood, lost loves, the times we spent with my now deceased grandfather... Everyone has good memories and this is the song to bring em back. Well done
My ancestor made and played the pipes in Ireland, He is clapping in Heaven . RIP
This is one of the songs I want played when I die
Ich weiß nicht was der Mann gefühlt hat als er dieses Stück gespielt hat. Ich vermute es war der Schmerz der ganzen Welt. Ich habe vorher noch nie ein Instrument weinen hören. Ich heule jedesmal rotz und Wasser wenn ich ich das höre. Nie war ich so dankbar für einen einzigen Moment in meinem Leben. Ich würde euch gern teilhaben lassen an meinen Gefühlen, wenn ich nachts am Feuer sitze und das Stück so laut höre das es mich wundert das niemand die Polizei ruft.
Ich kann nur Danke sagen. Nicht mehr, nicht weniger.
Gott, es zerreißt mir die Seele
If you don't weep listening to this, you don't have a heart.
BEAUTIFUL ☘
Nightwing,the title means Chulainn's Lament in English.(pronounced Ka hoo lan) Davy tours regularly, if you ever have a chance to see him, GO! He's a dear man and an old friend and probably the best pipe player in Ireland
Patrick from Cork City
I'm thinking the best piper anywhere! Awesome!
Id love to see him myself im not sure if he has ever played here in Belfast but his music has its own personal story for people its very moving and epic! Personaly it reminds me of loved ones, Old Irish kings and Republican Heros such as Bobby Sands ect. Im not biggot or anything but they always slip into my mind when i hear this
If there is such a thing as a soul, then I think this instrument, played like this, will seek it out.
The bends of the notes are incredible and cut to the very core of my soul. One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. I told my wife years ago this is what I want to be played at my graveside service when I pass on from this life.
One of the most moving pieces of music I’ve ever heard. Incredible.
Beautifully haunting, as a good lament should be. Well done!
I've listened to this about 10 times today. This is the most beautiful and powerful piece of music I've heard.
I remember being a little kid from Canada on vacation to Florida with my family (20 years ago now - yikes...so I was about 9). For whatever reason, my sister and I decided to watch T.V one evening rather than play around the pool at some nice tiki looking outdoor hotel. After fighting over whether to watch exotic American cartoons or River Dance on our tiny tube T.V in our room, my sister eventually won out and (although I'll reluctantly admit this to close friends only haha) I really enjoyed it. However, when it came to this piece, it hit me like a mac truck. Folk music was always a staple in our home, but this piece just cut me to the soul. I probably wouldn't remember anything about that trip or that night these days, but this damn song for whatever reason has frozen that night into my mind, and I've come back to it ever since. Although I haven't picked up the pipes, it did inspire me to acquire a Low D whistle which I've been enjoying for some time now. I'd like to go to Ireland to learn the pipes and even how to make them - maybe starting a business in Canada. Strange how one song can affect a life. :)
Lovely story my friend and am from GLASGOW SCOTLAND all the best
Cheers Mike
You can come and learn to make the pipes in a new workshop in Santry in north Dublin. people from all over the world have come to learn there, and you can do it in stages to.
You learn to make a practice set first (no drones) and come again later to learn drone making.
I struggle to make reeds never mind chanters.
The thing is, though, that this is not folk music. It's using a folk instrument (Uillean pipes) with a synthesiser providing the chords and pads. Without the synth, the Uillean pipes would be just that, with their mournful sounds. Without the pipes, the synth would be merely some pretty, but boring sounds. Together, however, they create something magical.
That which is called "Irish music" heavily depends on synthesisers, and as such is hardly traditional, but it's beautifully made. And that, in my opinion, is what counts most.
It’s certainly not traditional folk music, as it was written by Bill Whelan for Riverdance in the 90’s. However, I think it’s safe to classify this piece in the folk revival category. It’s clear he’s trying to establish a connection to the country's traditional Irish folk roots. I think the synthesizer and pipes work well in this instance to heighten the overall emotional tone of the piece, but that doesn’t go to say that all Irish folk music needs an electric component to succeed, nor that all traditional Irish bands are using it. I mean just take a look at Lunasa. I’d classify them folk revival as well. There isn’t an electric instrument to be heard, and I dare you to say they aren’t able to generate the same emotional intensity in their music.
I am a Dutchman with apparently Scottish roots. What a beautiful and penetrating sound this is. Irish or Scottish (or Dutch related) It is what touches you. And it always does.
Nothing makes me more proud to have the Irish as my neighbours setting all politics aside as it has no purpose on TH-cam. Honestly this is the most pleasing melody and it really helps me just to relax release any stress I carry. I would love to learn to play an instrument like this just beautiful
This poignant lament reminds me of something my father told me a long time ago. "For God hath made the Celts mad, for all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad"
Incorrect quote
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
G K Chesterton. The ballad of the white horse.
2:23 just hits me. So beautiful. And the chord shift at 2:47 brings instant tears to my eyes. Perfect =)
Jonathon Shrum absolutely! That chord at 2:47. It's like being lifted ashore.
2:47 = C major chord into a Dsus and then leading to the most climactic point of the piece on a G Major chord at 2:55 when he's playing a B5 to C6. So majestic. What really makes it go - other than Davy's exceptional talent and playing ability - is the sweeping orchestral background. Totally diatonic piece with no chromaticism but yet so powerful.