Amhrán na Leabhar (Song of the Books) - LYRICS + Translation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ม.ค. 2019
- also known as Cuan Bhéil Inse or Song of the Books, Amhrán na Leabhar is a famous 'traditional epic' written by Kerry poet Tomás Rua Ó Súilleabháin (1785-1848).
Under British rule the Irish language went into decline as it was banned out of public life (schools, courts etc), and children were taught through English.
However, illegal secret schools known as hedge-schools were set up for Catholic children (as a response to the prohibition of Catholic education in the country and the failure of the government - English and Protestant - to provide schools of any sort for the Catholic majority), where children were taught through the Irish language.
Ó Súilleabháin had been acting-schoolmaster in one of these hedge schools at Caherdaniel but was forced to transfer to Portmagee (Co. Kerry) when another schoolmaster was appointed to the permanent position.
As he was leaving, he placed his treasured books for transport on a boat going from Derrynane to Goleen (Góilín, Valentia Harbour), while he himself travelled by road.
The boat struck a rock and was lost, tragically along with the priceless collection of Irish books.
This lonely and desolate lament reflects the despair of those times.
Notes:
- 0:17 Dairbhre (meaning 'The Oak Wood') is just another name for Valentia Island.
- 0:20 The name Portmagee (Magee's Port, as it was formerly known) comes from Captain Theobald Magee, a notorious 18th-century smuggler. Having served in the army of King James as an officer, Magee 'retired' to a life of merchant shipping between France, Portugal and Ireland.Thanks to the many inlets around the South West coast, his trade in contraband spirits, textiles, tea and tobacco was hard to police and therefore very profitable.
- 3:48 the name of the poet, Tomás Rua Ó Súilleabháin, lit. means 'Red Tomás'
- in fact the Irish used is a bit archaic/Munstery, so if you notice any errors please let me know!!!
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The more I learn about the loss of Irish as a language, the more I want to learn and preserve it.
Bridgett Meskis do it
No Irish blood but attracted to learn as well.
same
Exactly. I have some Irish blood, not that that entitles me to anything, but I feel connected to the culture and language and want to preserve it and learn about my ancestors society.
God speed to you all
May this breath of beauty survive.
My father strove to keep it alive
This is a dreadfully sad song... Just imagine: your very own language is banned in your very own country, and then for such an invaluable collection of books preserving said language to be lost forever. Ouch.
It's shameful
And the impact of it is still there, because now this language is dying. I’m a tiny bit English, mostly French and Irish/Breton, but I resent the English bit for what my ancestors did to my culture and tried to do with my other culture...
Celtic Phoenix
Hoooooold up... Why wouldn’t they survive this century?
This language gets really deep into my soul.. and hey guys I bet there will be someone loving and continuing this language, be positive.. besides people shouldn’t resent others for the past, it’s true that is sad but things come and go.. besides the language don’t forget that we are all one race and that is human.. don’t let it blind you.. wish in this century we could be more united and share our values with one another :) wish u all a wonderful life
@Celtic Phoenix Sorry, but what kind of crap is this? Shame on you.
As someone with a huge love of languages and with possibly no connections to Ireland, hearing these songs makes me want to learn Irish! There is something immensely beautiful about it! Huge greetings from Mexico, folks 🙌
tengo 3 nietos Irlandeses/Mexicanos y hablo an Gaeilge tambien... todos los mexicanos son conectados con nosotros Irlandeses por"Los San Patricios" (puedes buscarlos en Google ...)
Estamos en la misma situación
¡Buena suerte! Yo estoy estudiando Español, pero yo oído Gaelic es mas difícil.
Mythic Writer . . .look up "Gaelic with Jason". Start with first lesson. He's awesome. He is from Maine and arrived in the western Islands with just his harp and his passion for Gaelic. He teaches Scottish Gaelic. It is beautiful and easier. Also, the BBC scottish Gaelic is fantastic AND duolingo FREE gaelic. Edit: but I must say although duolingo is fantastic and especially because you can touch any word and it repeats it instantly which you need . . It becomes bogged down in spelling. I want to speak gealic not learn the complicated spelling like a scholar. I can learn the spelling . . It has its own rules . . But I don't want to be controlled with each set of duolingo lessons by spelling getting it wrong and doing lesson again just to waste time spelling when I'm not interested. When I'm learning the SPOKEN language. It's a shame
This is exactly me. And maybe you do have a connection- try looking into your family history. :)
My grandmother told me long ago that there were "those people" who banned Irish Gaelic. She called it the time of Great Sadness. My parents didn't speak it. I'm trying to learn Irish. I might live in America, but I want to preserve as much of my culture as I can for future generations.
demat vreuzer (hello brother in Breton language) you're totally right, preserve your language and your cultur and Celtic cultur is gonna survive one century more
Kenavo (bye)
I am almost equal parts Cherokee (American Indian for those who don’t know) and Irish. Both languages suffered the same fate, being squashed for a shamefully long time under the heel of English-speaking conquerors. I’m trying to learn both languages so that they may live on through my heritage. Please post more videos like this, because they help me immensely with translation.
You won't learn how to pronounce words as gaeilge from listening without knowing the grammar
Good luck! I hope you succeed in learning such beautiful languages, love from Wales 🏴
@@breandanceallach426 Very similar to Korean in that you can't learn how to pronounce words by reading the text (For Korean reading the "english" way to say words makes things only all the more confusing)
We are Irish, Salish and gall óglaigh (Norse Scot for any who are unfamiliar with original people and our cultures) and we are also struggling with the same problem. Our languages and ancestors are all important and I know that they are pleased that you are working so hard to undue the massive wrongs that have been inflicted on indigenous people of all clans and races who dwell on our Mother.
I respectfully disagree that they are or have conquered anything or anyone, they are simply parasitic destroyers of life, culture and their own honor.
Languages held as treasures of our countrymen ripped from us by those who took us over. I wish you luck on your journey. As I do the same.
Berber/ Amazigh here, and for a long time our language had been looked down upon, and even now many people refuse to acknowledge it being part of our identity and deserving to be saved. Don't let your beautiful language die out; learn it, use it, and teach it to your children with pride.
Thank you, TH-cam, for recommending this breathtaking song ❤
Even if I wasn't reading the English translation, you can just HEAR how sad of a story this song is telling. It's literally heartbreaking
I play this to my daughter every evening. Irish will live forever.
Some people might think that playing a song for a child won't accomplish much. My mother used to sing us a song in Irish that she learned as a child from a native speaker and it gave me an early interest in languages and set in my mind that I would like to learn Irish someday. I studied Latin, Ancient Greek, German, French and got a degree in Spanish along the way before I started doing Irish on Duolingo three years ago. Now I have an online Irish tutor and am supporting the Cork economy by shopping at Litriocht--don't know if I will ever become fluent, but it has been a great experience. So you never know what might come eventually from playing a song to your child!
Keep the fire burning Steve.
@@stevewilliamson6416 you're absolutely right ! i am a breton keltic and when i was a kid, i would watch "the secret of kells" on loop. i've always had a keen ear so i learned the words to an irish song one of the characters sang. at this time, i didn't speak english, so i thought i was singing in english. years later, i watched the movie again, and when the song played it struck me and i still knew some of the words, but i realized that this was absolutely not english, so i looked it up out of curiosity. after that, i got a ton of irish songs recommended to me, and i listened to them and fell in love. the rythms and instruments reminded me of breton music that would play while we danced around a bonfire. i started learning a bit of irish here and there, to have a better pronounciation and sing along to the songs. and now, my dream is to work in 2d animation in the same studio that produced the movie that introduced me to irish culture.
That bit about the loss of particularly Irish books hit me hard. No one wants to lose thier heritage.
unfortunatly the english tried to eradicate a lot of ireland, scotland and wales' culture. they attempted to take our language, culture, anglicised our names but i have made it my mission to learn gaidhlig, scottish gaelic, which about 1% of the population now speak, and in my school there is a lot more effort to learn about scotlands culture and history!
I can sympathize, my people lost many of its identity when Spaniards conquered us for 3 centuries
One of my absolute all time favourite songs. It's hauntingly beautiful, even if you can't understand what's being said. I'm extremely grateful I found this channel a while ago. It's allowed me to connect more with Ireland's native culture and has inspired me at least in part to take gaeilge back up in earnest.
You can't speak it because of the events in this song. Tiocfaidh ár lá
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I'm french and people often blame us for the many words we spell with silent or useless letters, but this is like boss level!
Still, it is beautiful and dreamy
Irish spelling is actually very logical! You're right though, sometimes vowels are in the word to tell you how to pronounce the following consonant, instead of being there to be pronounced. All vowels in Irish are 'broad' or 'slender' depending on where in the mouth they are pronounced. This affects the consonants after them, so ceol and ceoil ('music' in the nominative and genitive case respectively) have a different 'l' sound at the end.
@@ferncat1397 that's super interesting to know ^^ at least it's a great reason, the extra letters in french don't have any purpose 😬
I always had this complaint against French when trying to learn it--but now that I am learning Irish I think French is pretty tame. As ferncat points out, there is a logic to Irish spelling, but the net effect is still that whole armies of consonants essentially become silent, sometimes.
@@katesay1559 Some of the consonants are dipthongs -- for example, "mh" is actually pronounced "v", as in the Irish name Niamh, pronounced "Neev".
FOR REAL any language from the British isles is like that I think XD
I do not speak a word of this language, but I am in tears by the beauty.
Came here after watching Song of the Sea and Book of Kells with my husband. Feel like I am connecting with my ancient roots.
WaterRock That’s nice. Did you see Tomm Moore’s other films?
You are
have you seen wolfwalkers? if not, you should, it's better than song of the sea and the secret of kells imo (and i love those movies as well)
The Basque language also suffered a great deal under the Spanish rule. Thankfully, great efforts were made, after the dictatorship, to revive the language:) As some have said, I feel this song is an ode to all the languages that were once in the brink of disappearing. And her voice enchanting beautiful.
Too bad France doesn't care and is still letting languages die, like Breton
Yes, and unfortunately the death of a language is often the death of a culture.
@@mollyr.goates8097 not only Breton ! what about the Southern language, THE LANGUE D'OC ? almost half of what is France today spoke OC languages. they were the first European cultural languages after the fall of the western Roman Empire. Even Dante Alighieri wanted to write the DIVINA COMEDIA in Oc. His friends from Florence convinced him to write it in his Toscan language which this became classical Italian. But the OC languages ( including Franco-Provenzal) is still quite spoken and is also making a strong comeback. A country that loses his language is loosing his soul too.I am an old french-speaking Swiss but I live is South America since over 30 years now. Switzerland has 4 official and national languages. German ( though my fellows Swiss Germans speak their one Alamanisch which is very different from Germany's German, then French, Italian and Romansh. I love languages. Speak, write and read very fluently 7 of them plus Latin and I have good knowledge of 5 more. I am learning Gaelic now too,
Christianity destroyed many a beautiful culture in Europe
@@cathalodiubhain5739 hogwash
Our language has now been accepted in the British controlled North. Our language like our people are strong. 800 yrs of brutality and control, we are seeds they buried, but we growing back stronger. Slainte agus Saoirse
A large portion of my blood is irish- and it pains me to see that the language has faded in its native land. A huge dream of mine is to learn the language as I think its so incredibly beautiful and i'd hate to see it die off ever.
I love Irish, and I’m so proud to be Irish. I love speaking Galiec when I can, so songs like this (are basically all the lullabies I had) make me feel so safe
I aspire to be able to sing this entire thing
I can sing it... but don't have a good voice...lol. I sing it softly, to myself.
😂💚
Me too xx
Me too
I'm learning it 🥲❤️
a keening song for books of a struggling language, sang in said language beautifully.. truly gorgeous.. i hope one day i can learn enough irish to write my own songs in it and sing it.
God, the Irish language is breathtaking. I’ve always adored it and felt so drawn to it as part of my ancestry. I really want to learn, but it’s slow going. I have a passion for all languages and cultures, but the Irish hold a special place in my heart.
Especcially after the "brave heart".
And this is just 1 style we have many styles of singing Irish all to do with pronunciation and lyrical rhyme along with emphasis on certain letters in certain versions. Spoken Irish dosent flow like this.
I’m Irish and Choctaw Indian I’m very blessed to have the passion and maturity of both of those people I’m not stuck in racism not competition
I enjoy nature art and exploration and have the heart of a warrior when it’s needed
I grew up in south of France and I studied in an Occitan school. This language, that was once spoken in all south of France is now poorly known and used because it was prohibited in schools and in the countryside... My school taught me to be proud of my culture and to love where I come from. I wish I could spread these values one day like my teachers did with me. I'm really sensible to what happened to the Irish and Scottish culture and I wish one day I could go there to learn and listen these beautiful languages. Thank you for sharing these songs ❤
I lived in Ireland for a while when I was high school student and I was fortunate enough to have been placed in a host family with roots in Donegal, so they taught me some Irish. I have forgotten most of it unfortunately but I‘d love to learn this beautiful language. I play the neo Celtic harp as well, so I‘d love to be able to sing Irish songs. My heart feels deeply connected to this land and its people. Celtic blood yes, Irish no
Who else but the Irish write a lament to the loss of books in a shipwreck! I know this as an instrumental - it is a haunting melody, and the story of the shipwreck and loss of books is always told when it is played.
Such a beautiful song. Full of history and sorrow of the Irish people. I don't think I've heard anything more beautiful than this in a long time. I have some Irish ancestry. Apparently my great grandfather was an Irish orphan that immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s. He married a Cajun French woman in Louisiana (where I and my family are from). My great grandmother, I don't know much about, but in the early 1900s our French language was banned in schools and kids were punished for speaking it and not English. I imagine she understood the pains he might have went through if he spoke gaelic but was punished in Europe for it as she would have had similar situations like that with her Cajun French in the U.S. Like Irish Gaeilic, Cajun French has been supressed and is thankfully making a revival in the past few decades. My hope is we can save languages and the history and culture of the Irish, Louisiana French and Scottish (all of which I have ancestry to).
There's something about a haunting voice that wakes the sleeping soul of a warrior. Waking a sleeping beast to feel again what was once thought lost. My soul longs for home even though Ive never been there in this life it calls to me...
I have played this on my violin for almost 60 years.I love its transformative mirth and incredibly transfixing melodies and bouyancies.I have always found it secretly winking at the true language being traditionally, not written, and experience of generations were more than just the logos.
It inspires innovation from ancient capacities .😊
If I was not Brazilian, I wish I was Irish...From the land of Hy-Brazil - the Land of the Holy Cross, I thank you for all these beautiful songs!
Omg yeeees! Totally agree
@@johnradclyffehall This myth was know in the portuguese court at the time the expedition of Pedro Alvarez Cabral set off and found Brazil. The Portuguese already knew there was land on the other side of the Atlantic. And, even though the first name of the country was Land of the Holy Cross, it was later renamed Brazil, allegedly because of the colour of a wood found here (Brazilwood). Brazil (pt: Brasil): comes from the root of Brasa, a word from germanic (not latim) origin, meaning "Red like an ember". That is how we are officially taugh, but we find it too much of a coincidence.
Why so few likes? Such a beautiful song. What a beautiful voice! I have played this on my fiddle for decades.
Wish I could listen to this for the first time again
I admire you and thank you! I discovered your channel a year ago and fell in love with Irish culture and language. It’s not easy to learn Irish since I’m from Slovakia but these beautiful songs keep reminding me to continue trying and I just feel truly happy singing these mesmerizing melodies. So thank you for enabling me and the others to see the beauty of your culture :)
i’m so happy gaelic is on duolingo. very excited to learn it. i find the irish language cool and bc you don’t hear about anyone learning it, that motivates me even more.
Anyone who loves books as much as I do can imagine the complete and utter devastating sorrow Ó Súilleabháin must have felt which he expressed so beautifully is this song. I don’t mean just paperback novels or something, but actual ancient and scholarly, hugely important and rare books. It may seem trivial to some but if I had the books he had (their titles are recorded) and lost them, I don’t know if I could have ever recovered. Such a sad thing.
The beautiful language of my great grandfather dying with him saddens me greatly... I want to learn it and keep it alive. My grandfather would've probably loved it if i learn it. Irish films and music always stuck with me more than others. And the sound of the language just makes me feel something. I don't know what it is. I just feel like someone's giving me a hug and telling me this is where my family came from. I hope Ireland can start to care about learning gaelic again. I know it has made a comeback in recent years, but it's probably the most beautiful language i have ever studied. I want to know more than a few words.
Enchanting.. her voice is beyond beautiful.. love this
This is Scary
Cada vez que escucho el gaélico escocés o irlandés me gusta más. Pura magia. Un saludo desde España
Ah what a beautiful voice she has,suits so well the melancolic air of the lyrics.
Hi from France
This is probably one of the most beautiful song I've ever heard. I wish I could learn this beautiful language. Thank you for sharing this.
What a nice song.
I find it really hard to find this kind of music but your channel ist the perfect source. Thank you :D
It doesn't matter what the words say because when spoken or sung in gallic it always sounds beautiful and magical. I truly hope that Ireland and Scotland can preserve your language and culture. You uplift us all. Thank you so much.
Какая красивая, душевная песня! 💓💓 Можно слушать бесконечно.
I learnt to play the violin because of this story and melody. Such powerful emotions!
I love your channel, Máire! Go raibh míle maith agat!
This song breaks my heart for the volumes lost. I love my books... I'll never send anything by sea!!!😥
Absolutely beautiful song. Love songs like this sung in their native language. Native language should Always be preserved
The best languages are more felt than understood. You feel Irish, even if you don't understand it.
Beautiful
Well of all the songs in your channel this one touched so deeply my heart that i wrote some poems and stories inspired by that
Thank you for that great inspiration!!
I live for your uploads!!!! I don't understand any of the languages but there is such a lot of feeling in them and I only have to listen to them with my heart 💓
I even started learning Gaelic and a little Irish just so I can get the gist of these songs. So thank you for the translations and thank you for the uploads!!!
An bhrónach, ach tá sé an alainn ar fad, maith thú is míle maith agat freisin.
I'm not Irish, I'm Scottish and Norwegian. I live in America, as each side immigrated in the 1880s and 1890s, and neither side bothered to pass the languages down. My great grandfather passed in 1983, he was born in 1912 and spoke fluent Norwegian. It died with him.
I am torn over which languages to learn, as I want to pass them to my children when they come. My heart says to reintroduce Norwegian into the family, but I'm in love with the Scottish and Irish Gaelic languages, and they're the ones that are endangered...
I could learn all, but only one can make it to be taught in time. ❤
Why didnt he teach it?
Gaelic and Irish are very similar. Twofer one!
@@basmalasaad3039 He didn't think it was very important to teach. He passed in the early 1980s.
Just came across your channel while researching songs from Leabhar Mór na nAmhrán. Thank you for your work, it's an amazing resource.
the more I learn of how the Celtics lost their language including Cornwall I become sadder and wish to protect my cornish heritage.
The whole of Britain spoke Celtic languages, they survived in the various forms after the Roman invasion and where spoken by the population until the Saxon invasion, the Saxon invasion was a well fought fight but what happened afterwords was a genocide, which Morden dna is showing, that story was never in any English text book, u are part of the survivors, and retained part of your culture, like the Manx, welsh
im scottish and around 1% speak a language once commonplace. im making it my mission to learn gaidhlig (scottish gaelic). it's so sad how much the english once tried to take our culture, our language, anglicise our names. be proud of your heritage!
Irish are Gaels
So painful, my heart hurts!
this makes shivering my soul, soooo beautiful, what a great language and what a brilliant song, thank you sooooooo much
This is so beautyful, thank you for the translation and explanation.
I love the names of the countries in your language, sung.
I believe.
Loving a language through learning the musical historical songs, brings the sharing, giving of a beautiful way.
No wonder your culture and the others I have heard in their beautiful songs give me a new love in my heart for your language, your culture, your land, and your people.
As I see and hear your beautiful way. Strong Irish, Faith of Your Fathers.
I can't say where my ancestors before my great grandparents came from exactly, (French, definitely), but I can know by their own beautiful way. Spanish American, now in New Mexico, USA 🇺🇸 [Spanish American, mostly out West and North and Southwest, USA, is like the Creole, from Louisiana, USA, in the ancestory (not as much Black, or Black American ancestry), however, today both Spanish American and Creole added ancestry is as unknown to me].
This is one of the most amazing things I have ever heard, incredible
Seems to be the tune that inspired "the cruel sea" on Primordial's "spirit the fire aflame" album. It struck me as I rediscovered that melody and the story it carries on Boys of the lough's "farewell and remember me". This version is well sung and nicely arranged. Slàinte to all listeners.
Wow so glad i happened on this, absolutely beautiful & being Irish I feel bad having to read the subtitles, sad yet superb song ☺
Thank you for uploading this! I don’t speak Irish but as a kid I sang it and had to phonetically translate it listening to this Eilis Kennedy version. She has a gorgeous voice.
I think the saddest part is that likely no one thinks in this language anymore. Internal dialogue I think is important. That's the true destruction of a language, when a childs first words are no longer in their native tounge, it is a devastating and angering thought.
I get emotional about Ireland. It’s the most beautiful mystical cold yet warm place in the world. I’d be happy in a Gaeltacht fishing village.
What a WONDERFUL teaching tool. Thank You!
I wish Welsh had such beautiful homages to the attempted eradication of the language, though at least we can thank Gwen Llian for the mabinogion.
I'm seeing lots of Irish Celtic and Scottish Gaelic songs here on TH-cam, but hardly any Welsh, old English, or Pict songs unfortunately...
The British Isles have a long and storied past, with many groups of people inhabiting it over the years...
Beautiful. Thanks for the translation. Great work.
The more I hear this beautiful language, the more I want to learn so I can play my part in keeping it alive
Love this song, listen to it all the time. Wonderful
A beautiful piece of words, music and singing ! 👍
The reference to the Captain "go m'fhearide an tír a sheasamh seal....srl"
is stating (I think) that it would have been to have been better for him to have remained on land until auspices were more favourable.
Thanks so much for this beautiful rendition and translation.
From the duff man glad to say my dogs still live God bless you go Irish
I love Ireland and Enya and Clannad 🙏❤️🤗🌹🇮🇪🍀 this voice remember whe she was Young 😭😭😭😭😭80's
It's a beautifull language!
Am trying to recover my irish and am doing it by learning songs
That was just outstandingly beautiful ! and as valuable for its educational value in those learning the language.
Très beau et super mélancolique.
Merveilheux ! C’est une balade ecosaise comme je me souvients depouis longtemps ♥️
My Celtic heritage is kicking in, dear do I love this language, it is hauntingly beautiful
Amhrán na Leabhar
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- 1st verse: -
Go cuan Bhéil Inse casadh mé
cois góilín aoibhinn Dairbhre
mar a seoltar flít na farraige
thar sáile, i gcéin
i bPort Magaoi do stadas seal
fé thuairim intinn maitheasa
d'fhonn bheith sealad eatarthu
mar mháistir léinn
Is gearr gur chuala an eachtra
ag cách, mo léan
gur i mbord Eonaín do cailleadh theas
an t-árthach tréan
Do phreab mo chroí le hatuirse
'dtaobh loinge an taoisigh chalma
go mb'fhearrde an tír í 'sheasamh seal
do ráib an tséin
- 2nd verse -
Dá siúlfainn Éire is Alba
an Fhrainc, an Spáinn is Sasana
agus fós arís dá n-abarainn
gach aird faoin ré
Ní bhfaighinnse an oiread leabhartha
b'fhearr eolas agus tairbhre
né is mó 'bhí chum mo mhaitheasa
cé 'tád ar strae
Mo chreach, mo chumha ina n-easnamh súd
do fágadh mé
is mór an cúrsa marbhna
agus cás liom é
Mallacht Dé is na hEaglaise
ar an gcarraig ghránna mhallaithe
do a bháigh an long gan anaithe
gan gála gan ghaoth
- 3rd verse -
Bhí móran Éireann leabhartha
nár áiríos díbh im labharthaibh
leabhair na Laighneach beannaithe
ba bhreátha faoin spéir
An feirmeoir álainn, gasta, deas
do choireadh a shíol go blasta ceart
thug ruachnoic fraoigh is aitinn ghlais
go gealbhánta féir
Scoirim ar mo labharthaibh
cé chrádar mé
is nó cuirfead aon ní ar fharraige
go brách lem ré
Moladh le Rí na nAingeal ngeal
mo shláinte ar'is do chasadh orm
is an fhoireann úd ón anaithe
gan bá theacht saor
Oileán Dhairbhre is also the ancestral home of Mogh Ruith, whose family learning goes beyond books to the heart of our oral tradition, and the wisdom tradition of Munster
such a tragic song and event. thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world. the translations and notes in the description were a fascinating read, and it makes me want to delve into research to learn more
Wow! ❤️🇸🇪🏴
Very beautiful.
Take a headphones,
Close your eyes,
Open your mind,
Enjoy,
One of the most beautiful song i listen on my life.
😍😍😍😍😍
Celtic in the best sense of the word, if there is any bad sense of that word at all. Thank you for sharing, keep up the good work, and warm greetings from Spain!
"Amhrán na Leabhar"
a dhein Tomás Rua Ó Súilleabháin (Lyrics/Liricí)
Go Cuan Bhéil Ínse casadh mé
Cois góilín aoibhinn Dairbhre
Mar a seoltar flít na farraige
Thar sáile, i gcéin
I bPort Magaoi do stadas seal,
Fé thuairim íntinn maitheasa,
D'fhonn bheith sealad eatartha,
Mar mháistir léinn.
Is gearr gur chuala an eachtra
Ag cách, mo léan
Gur i mbord Eonaín do cailleadh theas
An t-árthach tréan
Do phreab mo chroí le hatuirse
'dTaobh loinge an taoisigh chalma
Go mb'fhearrde an tír í 'sheasamh seal
Do ráib an tséin.
Dá siúlainn Éire 's Alba
An Fhrainc, an Spáinn is Sasana
Agus fós arís dá n-abarainn
Gach aird fén ré
Ní bhfaighinnse an iomad leabhartha,
B'fhearr eolas agus tairbhe
Ná is mó 'bhí chum mo mhaitheasa,
Cé 'táid ar strae.
Mo chreach, mo chumha ina n-easnamh súd!
Do fágadh mé
Is mór an cúrsa marbhna
Agus cás liom é
Mallacht Dé 's na hEaglaise
Ar an gcarraig ghránna mhallaithe
Do bháigh an long gan anaithe,
Gan gála gan ghaoth
Bhí mórán Éireann leabhartha,
Nár airíos díbh im' labharthaibh
Leabhair na Laighneach beannaithe
Ba bhreátha fé'n spéir
An feirmeoir álainn gasta deas,
Do chuireadh a shíol go blasta ceart
Thug ruachnoic fraoigh is aitinn ghlais
Go gealbhánta féir
Scoirim ar mo labhartaibh
Cé chrádar mé
Is ná cuirfead éinní ar fharraige,
Go brách, lem' ré
Moladh le Rí na nAingeal nGeal
Mo shláinte arís do casadh orm
Is an fhoireann úd ón anaithe
Gan bá, 'theacht saor.
Bhí súil agam go mbeadh focail an amhráin anseo! Go raibh míle maith agat.
@@jaredchandler8962 Ná háirimh é!
I’ve finally had a chance to listen to this song and I think it’s very sad but lovely.
If only there was a way to let these people know that it was not all in vain ... that they know that the Irishman is not dead, but slowly, as in a meadow still frozen by the raw winter of past bullying, slowly begins to sprout.
And like an expanse of shamrocks and heather, the desire and knowledge of this language will grow in the hearts of all those who have ties to Ireland.
Wonderful sound.
Most beautiful song!
Why is it I cry while hearing the soul of Gaelic songs?
You are not alone. I have no celtic blood, I'm Mexican but I feel so deeply touched by this music and the language.
They fought like warrior poets, they fought like scotsmen and in the end they gained ... freedom
Her voice is so pretty!
The language is archaic and a bit Munstery! But the delivery was completely perfect. I’ve never heard the poem so beautifully performed.
What a beautiful voice
I love this.
Beautiful and haunting.
The mystical, ancient fascination typical of Goidelic Languages. Milder, softer Irish and sharper, rougher Scottish. Adorable
Beautiful ❤️
beautiful!
Go raibh maith agat! Ghoid na Sasanaigh an oiread sin uainn. Tá fearg mhór orm. Meabhraíonn an t-amhrán álainn brónach seo dúinn na rudaí a chaill muid. Tá mo chroí ag gol.
Beautiful song...yet so sad. Seems to go with the times we're all living through these days with this deadly Covid19 pandemic. Sending healing prayers to all! Proud of all the Irish that is in me~