im 15 years old and i cant stop crying because this piece of music is beautiful and it makes me so sad that much more music like this is lost due to 800 years of english destruction of irish tradition! padraig pearse was right gaelige is the heart and soul of ireland!!! and i for one am making it my main purpose in live to become fluent in my home language!! fada beo in Éirinn.
@killucru The title translates to "Oro, you're welcome home." It's a political song. As for the meaning or lyrics, the song is Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile
every thime I heard this I think of home the green grass, Guinness my mother and father. I left last year to move to New Zealand . Lets rem our history but move on and just live life.......
For Christ's sake..if you Loyalists, Protestants, or plain wankers, whatever you want to be called, would just stay off Irish YouTube music videos, that would be greatly appreciated. We love are music, our religions, our nation...we are they masters of musical influence worldwide, and warfare for freedom as well. We are known as the nicest, most welcoming people, as said by tourists, so we'll respect you if you respect our music. Forget ye'r political fights...Go Sabhála Dia Éire cried they all.
@TheBarrackbuster gallowglass have their origins with norse settlers of N ireland and Western Scotland ....know yer history...some scottish clans are from norse roots laddie
love this song,especially this version, sinead's version is very well done,but it's also nice to hear it traditionally done,and this is my favorite so far. don't understand why everyone has to always fill up the comment section with all the political jibber jabbing, feel it would be much more useful to fill it up with comments concerning the song,or the artist. this is a song about Grace O'Mally , keep it relevant please
This is my grandad, i am Darac Keane... I wanted to post on this video to Pay respects to him :( and now he will be re-united with my grandma :'( RIP Grandad
My Grandmother sang this song when my grandfather passed when he was being carried thrugh dooneen on his wagon with his horse pulling slowly on the cobble stone road. Irish Travellers have a really rich culture dont know why people just see the bad in us
I mean seriously, England was one of the last places in Europe to be Christianized- and who brought it?- The Irish and the Romans. It's not all so simple. I consider the English and the Irish to be cultural brothers, and I get a little tired of all these absolutist identity games.
Everyone culture thinks they're the toughest, most resilient culture on earth. The Celtic mortal enemies, the English, survived 1000 years or something of constant invasion and colonization from half the major civilizations in Europe, the Jews endured more than twice that amount, and outright slavery too, African Americans and Native Americans endured shorter but tripley intense brutalization. Stop romanticizing. This is a lovely bit of singing.
@toner1000 Ya know hes singing in Irish right? Hes a native Irish speaker and the sean nós style goes along with that which can be hard to understand... I can understand him grand, and I honestly dont think hes drunk at all!! Absolutely beautiful
@Thrawn6211 What msugrappler says is true. the Scots Irish who emigrated to the US to settle the Shenandoah Valley and elsewhere were of Scots presbytarian stock abd were instrumental in the oppression of the native Irish during the plantation of Ulster. As a Scot born of an Irish father with 3 out of 4 Irish grandparents, I can tell you that we identify ourselves as Irish Scots. The difference is not merely semantic. It represents two different and, in the past, antipathetic communities.
Purest of the pure! What a great representation of the island area(area in Connemara where he was born). This man was from Maimin and the locals should be so proud to have such an integral part of the tradition coming from their own village. What a star!!
Purest of the pure! What a great representation of the island area(area in Connemara where he was born). This man was from Maimin and the locals should be so proud to have such an integral part of the tradition coming from their own village. What a star!!!
This song clearly displays our Irish spirit; to carry on regardless, despite war, famine, recession and the tough times we endure every day. We should destroy the negative thoughts and allow the positive ones to prosper.
when you've music in you, you're hearing music always.
Maith thu! One of my favorite versions of what is a very old song. It has always had a "political" aspect, long before Pearse adapted it for Sinn Fein. Grainne Mhaol ni Mhaille, the famed female pirate of Elizabethan times, was a folk hero to many of the native Irish, and in their minds, eventually came to be identified with the land, and this song. (The air also served for "Searlas Oig, a mhic Righ Sheamais" an Irish Jacobite air of 1745-6.)
nuair a éisteacht leis an amhrán seo, go háirithe nuair atá sé á chanadh i sean nόs dhéanann sé dom chomh bródúil as a bheith Gaeilge, is féidir Dia na hÉireann agus tá sé daoine !
Beautiful. Tabhair grá go deo Éireannach! Caith do shaol gan eagla.
I'm Irish, and Dannyboy is correct. We are the most resilient, toughest people. Our culture has been through much heart ache, sorrow... and yet we continue on with growth and pride!
Be proud of who you are and where you come from, no matter if it be German, Russian, black, white or purple. Stand up for yourself and show respect to history.
@samohickey Well start a war with the United States then.. An the Irish are white, an sorrow, well that's the beer talking, then you lose as many soldiers as the United States has then you can talk about sorrow.. From The Irish American...
I´m Serbian born in Germany and I listen to all kind of Music since I can Remember.
The Irish Folk is one of my Favs. I´ve startet with about 11 years to listen a Irish Folksinger with Guitar and his Voice ...sadly I cant remember his Name ; (
It was the Time of Cassettes an Walkman ;) and all the Way to Serbia (about 12h driving) my Walkman was runnin ,and every evening when I was going to sleep :) It was a magical Time and i´ll never stop listening to this poetic Music. Irish FTW
@Irishd180 actually bhoy this is a political song,and does indeed have much to do with the struggle for national liberation; united and free, the way our ancestors and god intended.
Just think....this man probably has memories of his father singing this song around the home when he was just a boy, and maybe sometimes he would join in the chorus himself....history lives...
The Irish sing like angels, you can just hear the fiddles and flutes in his voice! Its just amazing! THANK GOD I'M PART IRISH!!! IF YOUR LUCKY ENUF TO BE IRISH, YOUR LUCKY ENUF!!!-(Irish proverb)
Amazing. Makes me think of a small rural house away in the west, waking up to the sweet, sweet scent of a fresh turf fire and the smell of cooking scones.
I'm sure that when the English armies first entered Ireland they didnt know what to make of the Lingo the Paddys were speaking. They must have thought they had sailed the wrong way and ended up in Norway, ha ha.
@Sixalienasa In the Middle Ages the early English settlers of the Dublin Pale actually started marrying Gaelic women and speaking Gaelic to trade with the locals, but then a law was passed that prohibited this cultural blending and so the decline of Gaelic. A shame though as Gaelic is a splendid language and the Irish should carry on its legacy no matter what.
@Zeebrugge1918 Thanks for the info, I do believe that the Paddys have a very convincing influence on anyone they come into contact with. They are great persuaders. So in order for the English not to be overtaken by the Paddys they have to make sure that they are otherwise engaged. I guess its up to the individual to learn and speak his or her language and keep it current.
@broigheall That means my family comes from both Scotland and Ireland. I'm fond of this song because I'm part Irish. I live in America, so the whole thing between Scottish people and Irish people doesn't matter to me.
@Thrawn6211 That isn't what Scots-Irish means. Scots-Irish has a specific meaning: the descendants of the Scotsmen, mostly Presbyterians from the lowlands, who were settled in Ulster in an effort to pacify Ireland. What broigheall means is that this is a Jacobite song that was later turned into a Republican song. Most Scots-Irish were Williamites then later Unionists. Not all, but a large majority.
@hoodiefied808 I'm not taking sides, I'm part Scottish and part Irish, my grandmother always said my family was scots-irish, whether or not my blood actually comes from Ulster, or I just happen to be a big Gaelic mutt, only history can tell.
You ignorant scumbag, if you knew anything about Scottish history you would know the most of us hate royalist/loyalist, those traitors have no right to call themselfs Scottish. I'm Scottish and 2nd generation Irish and my family faught the English all their lives and rotted in English jails. Mabye you know of my Grandfather Dominic Behan or his brother Brendan Behan who was jailed for trying to carry out a bombing at liverpool. Would you say that to James Connolly?
@misfitstattoo lol rotted in english jails,quite rightly by the sound of it ,trying to carry out bombing in liverpool,your slagging off the hundreds of thousands of scots who fought against napoleon, the kaiser and adolf hitler most scots are british,and fought side by side with the english,welsh and irish,as equals scotland did well out of the empire ,with its industry and shipbuilding and engineering etc,irish republicans sided with germany,and hitler,something most scots would be against
@TheMightOfTheEnglish Scots where used as cannon fodor throughout all the wars Britain where involved in and have allways had a shit deal when it came to the English up until Maggie Thatcher. Scotland subsidises England so you can fuck off with that shite about Scotland doing well out of the empire.The IRA was full of great heroes who told England to fuck off and get the fuck out of their country, and I don't give one thought about all the English killed at the hands of the IRA.
ps my granfather was a scot and his father sought work in english shipyards ,as did tens of thousands of other scots ,and irish come to that, millions of english have got mixed blood of scots and welsh, and irish,
@TheMightOfTheEnglish It's not the English people that are the problem its the government that is stifiling our independance, which I have a problem with.
@misfitstattoo ,, , how many scots sit in parliament and vote on english things , how many english sit in the scots parliament , having the SNP in charge in scotland is one thing ,voting for full independence is another. theSNP would be the biggest party , unlikely to be outvoted, do you want to live in a one party state were others would never win, what makes you thing independence would be so great anyway , who was it that bailed the bank of scotland out
@TheMightOfTheEnglish the british empire like all empires are just a spec on the vast history of time........its how we approach the future that is important imo
@robin22391 narrow minded nationalists , even if scotland got the oil, it,ll run out in 15 to 20 years time, then what are the scots going to do, the only way portugal,ireland,greece,belguim,luxumborg survive,etc, is by cap in hand to europe , scotland will transfer from having a big say in the UK parliament , to having little say in brussels ,most nationalists have been blinded by salmond and his anti english agenda
load of crap, that oil will last 100 years and thats not counting the oil that hasnt even been looked for on that shelf....oil prices stay high when you dont find new fields...so they dont look until they need to....even still ireland has just found huge fossil reserves as had england and scotland etc etc etc ....you talk pish
@robin22391 the oil will last 20 years or less the existing fields , why do they keep saying dwindling supplies , and britain looking towards russia for future energy supplies , why build nuclear power stations ,if were drenched in oil , that oil piped to scotland ,isnt scottish oil , last time i looked 12 miles was territorial waters , the oil comes way out in the north sea, it was british money that was spent on the exploration etc ,not scottish ,
There are very few loyalists in Scotland and they are hated by all real Scots. Read up on Scottish history before you make ignorant assumptions. Scotland has been fighting the English longer than the Irish. Just as Cromwell pushed the Irish westwards there were the Highland clearances. Robert the Bruce Invaded Ireland in 1315 to free the Irish from the English and the Irish crowned Robert Bruce as High King of Ireland in 1316. So you should some respect for the Scottish.
@misfitstattoo one of your scottish nationalists aka sean connery ,snapped up his knighthood like it was the greatest award ever , hippocrite or what ,scots have fought the english for centuries yes , and england never had it all their own way at all,and suffered many defeats,scots have raided across the border for centuries and invaded, highland scots were mainly defeated by fellow scots more so than english ,and the scottish clearences in the 19th century were done by scottish landowners
@TheMightOfTheEnglish Fuck Sean Connery. Bollocks the clearences where done by English landowners read up on you're history. The act of proscription 1746 was an act of the parliment of Britain.
@misfitstattoo i said scots irish. as in the ones who colonised the ulster plantation.
the scots have not been fighting the english longer than the irish i dont no where thats come from.
the scottish royalty is intermarried with british hence it being part of the united kingdom. sadly the history of scotland helping ireland is a shorter list than the amount of wrong deeds done. infact if it wernt for the orange order (scottish loyalist decendents) ireland would have been whole a long time ago.
@hoodiefied808 Fair enough I thought you ment people of half Scottish and half Irish decent; albeit, the scots have been fighting the English for longer it was Robert and Edward the Bruce who inspired the irish celts to fight when the Bruce brought his army over to Ireland, you can look into it and if you find something that contradicts that then let us know.
@hoodiefied808 yep correct thast why the pipes were banned in Scotland after the 1745, along with wearing a kilt etc (look it up and prove me wrong). and Orangemen have the cheek to play bagpipes cheeky fuckers.
There are versions of this song-one of Grainnes castle near my family home at the top of Lough Mask is named Caislean na Coileach. ( I think its Coileach) or Castle of the rooster. Local legend has it that Grace was turned into a rooster, and can still be heard roosting on the island within the csatle precincts. , so they say...
For one of the truths about the many lies told about Germany.
Google:
The Liberation of the Camps: Facts vs. Lies by Theodore J. O' Keefe.
If you want facts that go against all the other lies go to Institute for Historical Review (ihr.org) and click on their archives. Start reading and researching.
Germany has been lied to and lied about. The proof is all there and documented.
@privatejizzmiester94 I might have Irish(Cork/Limerick) roots but I know my place in the world. I am an American national that will never change. I keep from being a true plastic paddy by reading history and the news but I know no matter what I will always be called a plastic paddy.
@Drunkgrenadier - I'm right there with you. My grandmother was a Northern Irish Catholic and moved to the US to start a new life with her husband. I am very proud of my Irish heritage, I read the history, the mythology (Cattle Raid of Cooley, Fenian Cycle, all that jazz), play Irish folk music, and I am even in the process of learning to speak Gaelige. But, no matter how hard we try, we will always be labeled as plastic paddys. All we can do is keep on singing. Éireann go Brách
Heh, we could make some more Irish speaking townships(which we have a few in the US to date). Have them come over and say "look at those plastic paddys". lol
this really is amazing...young poeple need to see this. Its almost like looking back in time...if your Irish (speaking for americans) this is what your great grandparents used to hear at the pub
@usulkane young people don't need to see this! older people need to get out more and see the young people outside the Gweedore getting a smoke absolutely plastered roaring at the top of thier voice "Níl sé ina lá, níl a ghrá,
níl sé ina lá is ní bheidh go maidin,
níl sé ina lá is ní bheidh go fóill,
solas ard atá sa ghealaigh."
Irish is still alive and to those who say it's dying, I say; there's too many people making sure it's not!
Such a beautiful song, and Gaelic is a wonder language and it is a shame that the Irish were forced to rid themselves of it due to us bloody Brits...i should love to learn it :)
What dialect of Irish is this? I noticed a few lyrics were different than the standard lyrics you find on the internet, the last chorus for example. Any help appreciated.
@AngloSaxonLoyalist Darach Ó Catháin (1922-1987) was born in Maimin, Lettermore, Connemara, but his family moved to Rath Cairn in County Meath when he was 13. Keep in mind that this video is from 1980, so his teeth probably weren't what they were, and this could have affected his articulation. As far as the difference in lyrics, there are infinite versions of this song, only a sliver which can be found on the web.
right nothin against the english but come on you made us proud irish lose our national language most people dont talk it anymore and i dont either i feel sick now becouse i will never get to learn it as much as i could have
@0NEVERHIDE0 The last line of the chorus is 'anois ar theacht and tsamhraidh' - now that the summer is coming. Roughly phonetically 'anish air hyacht an tawrig'. Thats the best I can do... varies of course depending where in the country your from.
Shame on you Ireland! English language must not be official language in Ireland. Irishmen should to speak their own language. I understand that English killed people in Ireland because they spoke Gaelige, but we (Serbs) have lived under Turkish occupation for 500 years, but we still speak our BEAUTIFUL Serbian language. I am sorry because of mistakes, but English is my S E C O N D language. A country without language is country without soul! Greetings from Boris B. and Teodora M.-CELTIC Girl
as an irishman ive long admired the serbs and their culture . Ive visited serbia too , Belgrade , and Irish music is very popular there . Orthodox celts .
@zex654 you mentioned Ottoman Turks Occupation on your comment. Why dont you mention about Ottoman Turks treatments towards minorities in the Empire? Do Ottoman Turks forbid language of local people or practing religious or destroy monasties!
to open cells in your brain search this Mehmed II's Firman on the freedom of the Bosnian Franciscans!!!!
@zex654 The English occupied Ireland for nearly a thousand years, so you can't blame people for losing grasp of Gaelic. Also the northern half of Ireland still is part of Britain and so prefer to speak English
yes as we say Tír gan teanga tír gan anam. we are stil growing and promoting our language, good for you that after occupation you still speak Turkish, but we are not all that lucky. this comment made me mad, because you have no idea the torture and brutality that irish people went through. out language was suppressed along with our rights but it is stil alive today. so not shame on us!!!
you see,the seemless tradition of parents passing irish to their spawn was intrruptd,and in places,practically severed. you cant pass it on if you aint got it! consciously deciding to learn irish,in this country as it is now, would only be marginally less difficult than learning french or german,and of far less use in securing employment. Has a magical sound to it tho, gorgeous way of organising the words too
He has a native-speaker sound to his voice, much like American Indians do to theirs, somthing that can't be replicated, and the perfect way to tell that this guy is a native speaker.
Thosaigh mé ag cuineadh nuair a chuala mé an amhrán iontach seo... tá mé cobh ceardeanna go bhfuil mé ó Éire agus go bhfuil mé abailte an Gaeilge a labhairt !
This nowhere near his best work....written by Padraig Pearse, it talks about Grainne Mhaol coming to free Ireland with a huge army. Grainne Mhaol was actually on the English side at the end of the 9 year war!
Darach O Cathain was our greatest sean nos singer. Listen to his version of Sal Og Rua.
No - the original version was Jacobite. Pearse bastardised the original Catholic Irish Jacobite version and produced a racist, nationalist version. However, he cocked up. Grainne Mhaol was, as keon850 points out, allied with the Protestant English and Pearse turns the Spanish into an enemy (de Valera notwithstanding) whereas the Jacobite version looked to the French and Spanish for help against the oppressors. This version is not as good as the Jacobite version altho' Darach is great!
@Jacobitejim Pearse doesn't turn the Spanish into an enemy; rather he says that the earlier Irish attempts to coordinate their risings with the invasions of foreign powers (Felipe, Napoleon) came to naught, and that this time the Irish will rely on their own resources- with help from their brethren living in the diaspora (i.e. Boston!) Sinn Fein- We Ourselves Alone
Thats how it sung properly. He has oro se do bheath abhaile released on his album too, the way he sings it in the album is something else aswell, different to this.
im 15 years old and i cant stop crying because this piece of music is beautiful and it makes me so sad that much more music like this is lost due to 800 years of english destruction of irish tradition! padraig pearse was right gaelige is the heart and soul of ireland!!! and i for one am making it my main purpose in live to become fluent in my home language!! fada beo in Éirinn.
acdcfan0100 1 week ago
proud to be irish
nik7667 1 month ago 5
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Oh-ro You're welcome home,
Oh-ro You're welcome home,
Oh-ro You're welcome home...
Now that summer's coming!
Welcome oh woman who was so afflicted,
It was our ruin that you were in bondage,
Our fine land in the possession of thieves...
And you sold to the foreigners!
aether020685 1 month ago
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aether020685 1 month ago
Gráinne O'Malley is coming over the sea,
Armed warriors along with her as her guard,
They are Irishmen, not French nor Spanish...
And they will rout the foreigners!
aether020685 1 month ago
May it please the King of Miracles that we might see,
Although we may live for a week once after,
Gráinne Mhaol and a thousand warriors...
Dispersing the foreigners!
aether020685 1 month ago
Marvelous.
txdurk 1 month ago
Hi,
What means the title of the song ? What does it talk about ?
killucru 1 month ago
@killucru The title translates to "Oro, you're welcome home." It's a political song. As for the meaning or lyrics, the song is Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile
PhilanVortex 1 month ago
@PhilanVortex ok, thanks !
killucru 1 month ago
every thime I heard this I think of home the green grass, Guinness my mother and father. I left last year to move to New Zealand . Lets rem our history but move on and just live life.......
plugerss 2 months ago
sad to think hes most likely dead now :(
acdcfan0100 2 months ago
@acdcfan0100 Dudley Kane, aka Darach Ó Catháin, passed away in 1987.
lyhneniels 2 months ago
@lyhneniels shame :(
acdcfan0100 1 month ago
The English need to leave Ireland!
amixofeverything 2 months ago
For Christ's sake..if you Loyalists, Protestants, or plain wankers, whatever you want to be called, would just stay off Irish YouTube music videos, that would be greatly appreciated. We love are music, our religions, our nation...we are they masters of musical influence worldwide, and warfare for freedom as well. We are known as the nicest, most welcoming people, as said by tourists, so we'll respect you if you respect our music. Forget ye'r political fights...Go Sabhála Dia Éire cried they all.
slapshot37GNR 3 months ago 2
Huh, I can just taste the potatoes
apincle 3 months ago
@apincle Ignorant sow
shayegan10 3 months ago
@TheBarrackbuster gallowglass have their origins with norse settlers of N ireland and Western Scotland ....know yer history...some scottish clans are from norse roots laddie
soar alba
3tangle3 3 months ago
@TheBarrackbuster I am unaware of that fact therefore you are wrong, because I am solipsistic. Anything I don't know does not exist.
misfitstattoo 3 months ago
this song makes me want to learn gaelic.even though my relatives came form ireland and settled in the south this language was lost in my family.
de4dr4bbit 4 months ago
love this song,especially this version, sinead's version is very well done,but it's also nice to hear it traditionally done,and this is my favorite so far. don't understand why everyone has to always fill up the comment section with all the political jibber jabbing, feel it would be much more useful to fill it up with comments concerning the song,or the artist. this is a song about Grace O'Mally , keep it relevant please
irishpride1in11 5 months ago 2
This is my grandad, i am Darac Keane... I wanted to post on this video to Pay respects to him :( and now he will be re-united with my grandma :'( RIP Grandad
GamingProUK 5 months ago
My Grandmother sang this song when my grandfather passed when he was being carried thrugh dooneen on his wagon with his horse pulling slowly on the cobble stone road. Irish Travellers have a really rich culture dont know why people just see the bad in us
pamongan1 5 months ago
I'm Irish-American. Stuff like this makes me so proud.
nik7667 6 months ago
such a moving song
aninomixs 6 months ago 4
I mean seriously, England was one of the last places in Europe to be Christianized- and who brought it?- The Irish and the Romans. It's not all so simple. I consider the English and the Irish to be cultural brothers, and I get a little tired of all these absolutist identity games.
smithjedediah 6 months ago
Everyone culture thinks they're the toughest, most resilient culture on earth. The Celtic mortal enemies, the English, survived 1000 years or something of constant invasion and colonization from half the major civilizations in Europe, the Jews endured more than twice that amount, and outright slavery too, African Americans and Native Americans endured shorter but tripley intense brutalization. Stop romanticizing. This is a lovely bit of singing.
smithjedediah 6 months ago
Wonderful song
MrRock1331 7 months ago 17
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MrHarneyv 7 months ago
terrorism from the new IRA has sadly made any chance of independance for northern ireland minute
msdwyerr 8 months ago
And I would like to say, that Ireland is the best country in the world. And the irish people are the friendliest in the world.
I hope, my english is correct. :-S
:-)
PyrofanaticCrew 8 months ago
@PyrofanaticCrew yoyur grand, your english is better than most of us Irish. :P
MattiusIV 8 months ago
@MattiusIV Yeha! :D
PyrofanaticCrew 8 months ago
Tiocfaidh ar la!
Best wishes from Germany... Up the 'RA!
PyrofanaticCrew 8 months ago
It's beautiful.
paddycentered 9 months ago
The old bhoy puts pride and rebellion against an alien nation! Eire Bua!
hauntedgeal 9 months ago
iontach :)
Mrjackbluesky 9 months ago
5 english faggots dislikes. >:(
Scealic93 10 months ago
Seriously? You can't understand one word. Plus look how he spells stuff. Hammered!
toner1000 10 months ago
@toner1000 Ya know hes singing in Irish right? Hes a native Irish speaker and the sean nós style goes along with that which can be hard to understand... I can understand him grand, and I honestly dont think hes drunk at all!! Absolutely beautiful
tony10396861 10 months ago
@toner1000 i understand him perfectly
irisharmyrangers 8 months ago
This guy is HAMMERED! Hilarious.
toner1000 10 months ago
@toner1000 What?? No hes not!
tony10396861 10 months ago
good for you! most authentic sounding i've heard! i give it a ten!
aleighaharber 10 months ago
@Thrawn6211 What msugrappler says is true. the Scots Irish who emigrated to the US to settle the Shenandoah Valley and elsewhere were of Scots presbytarian stock abd were instrumental in the oppression of the native Irish during the plantation of Ulster. As a Scot born of an Irish father with 3 out of 4 Irish grandparents, I can tell you that we identify ourselves as Irish Scots. The difference is not merely semantic. It represents two different and, in the past, antipathetic communities.
jimk47 11 months ago
Beautiful :')
Bualadhcraicinn 11 months ago
Brilliant, just brilliant....oh and the dislikes... no style, no class and no respect!
osioda 11 months ago
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Purest of the pure! What a great representation of the island area(area in Connemara where he was born). This man was from Maimin and the locals should be so proud to have such an integral part of the tradition coming from their own village. What a star!!
MrILOVETRAD 11 months ago
Purest of the pure! What a great representation of the island area(area in Connemara where he was born). This man was from Maimin and the locals should be so proud to have such an integral part of the tradition coming from their own village. What a star!!!
MrILOVETRAD 11 months ago
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Yeats put it best "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone"
aerlingus18 11 months ago
Yeats put it best "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone"
aerlingus18 11 months ago
Danny Boy is correct? How do you mean? It's original name is 'The Londonderry Air'.
jamboliboli 1 year ago
This song clearly displays our Irish spirit; to carry on regardless, despite war, famine, recession and the tough times we endure every day. We should destroy the negative thoughts and allow the positive ones to prosper.
when you've music in you, you're hearing music always.
mcstudunne 1 year ago
Maith thu! One of my favorite versions of what is a very old song. It has always had a "political" aspect, long before Pearse adapted it for Sinn Fein. Grainne Mhaol ni Mhaille, the famed female pirate of Elizabethan times, was a folk hero to many of the native Irish, and in their minds, eventually came to be identified with the land, and this song. (The air also served for "Searlas Oig, a mhic Righ Sheamais" an Irish Jacobite air of 1745-6.)
celt1745 1 year ago 3
lovely song of ireland....
spartan6888 1 year ago
i love this, sounds awesome x
VittaniMoscardini 1 year ago
nuair a éisteacht leis an amhrán seo, go háirithe nuair atá sé á chanadh i sean nόs dhéanann sé dom chomh bródúil as a bheith Gaeilge, is féidir Dia na hÉireann agus tá sé daoine !
Lee27ish 1 year ago
Beautiful. Tabhair grá go deo Éireannach! Caith do shaol gan eagla.
I'm Irish, and Dannyboy is correct. We are the most resilient, toughest people. Our culture has been through much heart ache, sorrow... and yet we continue on with growth and pride!
Be proud of who you are and where you come from, no matter if it be German, Russian, black, white or purple. Stand up for yourself and show respect to history.
samohickey 1 year ago 53
@samohickey Shame that Danny Boy was written by an Englishman of Scots Gaelic descent. :-/
Wodanaz 1 year ago
@samohickey Purple?
EODMetal 11 months ago
@samohickey fuck that man i draw the line at purple people, to hell with purple people, Tiochfaidh ar la!
MARKNMS 9 months ago
@samohickey Londonderry Air is the only correct way to say it actually. Ulsterman.
folwert 8 months ago
@folwert freederry mate
ACEofExodus 7 months ago 5
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@ACEofExodus fuck your free derry!
folwert 7 months ago
@folwert free derry all the way u no u cant get enough of irish culture thats y ur on this vid
hoodiefied808 7 months ago
@samohickey Well start a war with the United States then.. An the Irish are white, an sorrow, well that's the beer talking, then you lose as many soldiers as the United States has then you can talk about sorrow.. From The Irish American...
BrooklynLyme 4 months ago 6
@samohickey those purpleoids really are motherfuckers, though.
BrendanIsCool 3 months ago
I´m Serbian born in Germany and I listen to all kind of Music since I can Remember.
The Irish Folk is one of my Favs. I´ve startet with about 11 years to listen a Irish Folksinger with Guitar and his Voice ...sadly I cant remember his Name ; (
It was the Time of Cassettes an Walkman ;) and all the Way to Serbia (about 12h driving) my Walkman was runnin ,and every evening when I was going to sleep :) It was a magical Time and i´ll never stop listening to this poetic Music. Irish FTW
MrRobbell 1 year ago 2
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finfraser 1 year ago
@MrRobbell
You might be thinking of Paul Brady
georgiethegreek 1 year ago
5 people must not respect the ancient ways of celtic music
I LOVE THE SONG BTW
311coliner 1 year ago
up the ra!
MICKYMAVYT 1 year ago
@MICKYMAVYT..Nothing got to do with the RA son
Irishd180 1 year ago
@Irishd180 actually bhoy this is a political song,and does indeed have much to do with the struggle for national liberation; united and free, the way our ancestors and god intended.
Beir Boa
xXTotalDIsCordXx 10 months ago
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@MICKYMAVYT..Nothing got to do with the RA son!
Irishd180 1 year ago
Up the RIRA/CIRA/ONH
Paddy234 1 year ago
I like how in the final Curfa he uses the old Jacobite lyrics: "B'fhearr liom tú ná céad bó bhainne."
BodhranDan 1 year ago
@BodhranDan yeah must be old version cause many verses are irrelevant to padraig pearse's version
girayhankaya 1 year ago
happy halloween at its homeland ireland
FIntyMAcC10 1 year ago
Great song, the tune was from an old Scottish Jacobite song with new lyrics from Padraig Pearse .
saorsa74 1 year ago
Just think....this man probably has memories of his father singing this song around the home when he was just a boy, and maybe sometimes he would join in the chorus himself....history lives...
deathbybagpipes 1 year ago
@deathbybagpipes Now he has grandchildren of his own who are in front of the tv singing along to Lady Gaga.
jaysteinbourg 1 year ago
@jaysteinbourg Aye, more than likely, a shame that it is.....
deathbybagpipes 1 year ago
The Irish are fighters. They don't get submissive
boomerlady 1 year ago 4
Truely Beaitiful !
breffnipark 1 year ago
It's the tune to Drunken Sailor !!
FolkMusicWins 1 year ago
You can tell that he feels the song because he closes his eyes when singing.
TheMetal4evr 1 year ago
The Irish sing like angels, you can just hear the fiddles and flutes in his voice! Its just amazing! THANK GOD I'M PART IRISH!!! IF YOUR LUCKY ENUF TO BE IRISH, YOUR LUCKY ENUF!!!-(Irish proverb)
tyler2home 1 year ago 4
Amazing. Makes me think of a small rural house away in the west, waking up to the sweet, sweet scent of a fresh turf fire and the smell of cooking scones.
Man, I'm so prod to be Irish listening to this.
Conero08 1 year ago 3
I'm sure that when the English armies first entered Ireland they didnt know what to make of the Lingo the Paddys were speaking. They must have thought they had sailed the wrong way and ended up in Norway, ha ha.
Sixalienasa 1 year ago
@Sixalienasa In the Middle Ages the early English settlers of the Dublin Pale actually started marrying Gaelic women and speaking Gaelic to trade with the locals, but then a law was passed that prohibited this cultural blending and so the decline of Gaelic. A shame though as Gaelic is a splendid language and the Irish should carry on its legacy no matter what.
Zeebrugge1918 1 year ago
@Zeebrugge1918 Thanks for the info, I do believe that the Paddys have a very convincing influence on anyone they come into contact with. They are great persuaders. So in order for the English not to be overtaken by the Paddys they have to make sure that they are otherwise engaged. I guess its up to the individual to learn and speak his or her language and keep it current.
Sixalienasa 1 year ago
I'm glad to be part Scots-Irish, music like this really sends a tingle down your spine.
Thrawn6211 1 year ago 16
@Thrawn6211 Normally if you're "part Scots-Irish", whatever that's supposed to mean, you wouldn't be too fond of this song.
broigheall 11 months ago
@broigheall That means my family comes from both Scotland and Ireland. I'm fond of this song because I'm part Irish. I live in America, so the whole thing between Scottish people and Irish people doesn't matter to me.
Thrawn6211 11 months ago
@Thrawn6211 That isn't what Scots-Irish means. Scots-Irish has a specific meaning: the descendants of the Scotsmen, mostly Presbyterians from the lowlands, who were settled in Ulster in an effort to pacify Ireland. What broigheall means is that this is a Jacobite song that was later turned into a Republican song. Most Scots-Irish were Williamites then later Unionists. Not all, but a large majority.
msugrappler 11 months ago
@msugrappler Well, I have been told my ancestors are Scots-Irish, thanks for the info
Thrawn6211 11 months ago
@Thrawn6211 are you Scot-Irish planted in Ulster after Cromwell had his bit or a Scottish man whom family comes from working the Irish fields?
Drunkgrenadier 8 months ago
@Drunkgrenadier Before Cromwell
Thrawn6211 8 months ago
@Thrawn6211 dont mean to be a dick but scots-irish aka the protestant, royalist are historically the enemys of this music.
hoodiefied808 7 months ago 19
@hoodiefied808 I'm not taking sides, I'm part Scottish and part Irish, my grandmother always said my family was scots-irish, whether or not my blood actually comes from Ulster, or I just happen to be a big Gaelic mutt, only history can tell.
Thrawn6211 7 months ago
@hoodiefied808
You ignorant scumbag, if you knew anything about Scottish history you would know the most of us hate royalist/loyalist, those traitors have no right to call themselfs Scottish. I'm Scottish and 2nd generation Irish and my family faught the English all their lives and rotted in English jails. Mabye you know of my Grandfather Dominic Behan or his brother Brendan Behan who was jailed for trying to carry out a bombing at liverpool. Would you say that to James Connolly?
misfitstattoo 5 months ago
@misfitstattoo lol rotted in english jails,quite rightly by the sound of it ,trying to carry out bombing in liverpool,your slagging off the hundreds of thousands of scots who fought against napoleon, the kaiser and adolf hitler most scots are british,and fought side by side with the english,welsh and irish,as equals scotland did well out of the empire ,with its industry and shipbuilding and engineering etc,irish republicans sided with germany,and hitler,something most scots would be against
TheMightOfTheEnglish 5 months ago
@TheMightOfTheEnglish Scots where used as cannon fodor throughout all the wars Britain where involved in and have allways had a shit deal when it came to the English up until Maggie Thatcher. Scotland subsidises England so you can fuck off with that shite about Scotland doing well out of the empire.The IRA was full of great heroes who told England to fuck off and get the fuck out of their country, and I don't give one thought about all the English killed at the hands of the IRA.
misfitstattoo 5 months ago
ps my granfather was a scot and his father sought work in english shipyards ,as did tens of thousands of other scots ,and irish come to that, millions of english have got mixed blood of scots and welsh, and irish,
TheMightOfTheEnglish 5 months ago
@TheMightOfTheEnglish It's not the English people that are the problem its the government that is stifiling our independance, which I have a problem with.
misfitstattoo 5 months ago
@misfitstattoo ,, , how many scots sit in parliament and vote on english things , how many english sit in the scots parliament , having the SNP in charge in scotland is one thing ,voting for full independence is another. theSNP would be the biggest party , unlikely to be outvoted, do you want to live in a one party state were others would never win, what makes you thing independence would be so great anyway , who was it that bailed the bank of scotland out
TheMightOfTheEnglish 5 months ago
@TheMightOfTheEnglish the british empire like all empires are just a spec on the vast history of time........its how we approach the future that is important imo
3tangle3 3 months ago
@TheMightOfTheEnglish
load of rubbish...power play of politics dictates a party split as soon as is possible.
robin22391 3 months ago
@robin22391 narrow minded nationalists , even if scotland got the oil, it,ll run out in 15 to 20 years time, then what are the scots going to do, the only way portugal,ireland,greece,belguim,luxumborg survive,etc, is by cap in hand to europe , scotland will transfer from having a big say in the UK parliament , to having little say in brussels ,most nationalists have been blinded by salmond and his anti english agenda
TheMightOfTheEnglish 3 months ago
@TheMightOfTheEnglish
load of crap, that oil will last 100 years and thats not counting the oil that hasnt even been looked for on that shelf....oil prices stay high when you dont find new fields...so they dont look until they need to....even still ireland has just found huge fossil reserves as had england and scotland etc etc etc ....you talk pish
robin22391 3 months ago
@robin22391 the oil will last 20 years or less the existing fields , why do they keep saying dwindling supplies , and britain looking towards russia for future energy supplies , why build nuclear power stations ,if were drenched in oil , that oil piped to scotland ,isnt scottish oil , last time i looked 12 miles was territorial waters , the oil comes way out in the north sea, it was british money that was spent on the exploration etc ,not scottish ,
TheMightOfTheEnglish 3 months ago
@hoodiefied808
There are very few loyalists in Scotland and they are hated by all real Scots. Read up on Scottish history before you make ignorant assumptions. Scotland has been fighting the English longer than the Irish. Just as Cromwell pushed the Irish westwards there were the Highland clearances. Robert the Bruce Invaded Ireland in 1315 to free the Irish from the English and the Irish crowned Robert Bruce as High King of Ireland in 1316. So you should some respect for the Scottish.
misfitstattoo 5 months ago
@misfitstattoo one of your scottish nationalists aka sean connery ,snapped up his knighthood like it was the greatest award ever , hippocrite or what ,scots have fought the english for centuries yes , and england never had it all their own way at all,and suffered many defeats,scots have raided across the border for centuries and invaded, highland scots were mainly defeated by fellow scots more so than english ,and the scottish clearences in the 19th century were done by scottish landowners
TheMightOfTheEnglish 5 months ago
@TheMightOfTheEnglish Fuck Sean Connery. Bollocks the clearences where done by English landowners read up on you're history. The act of proscription 1746 was an act of the parliment of Britain.
misfitstattoo 5 months ago
@misfitstattoo i said scots irish. as in the ones who colonised the ulster plantation.
the scots have not been fighting the english longer than the irish i dont no where thats come from.
the scottish royalty is intermarried with british hence it being part of the united kingdom. sadly the history of scotland helping ireland is a shorter list than the amount of wrong deeds done. infact if it wernt for the orange order (scottish loyalist decendents) ireland would have been whole a long time ago.
hoodiefied808 5 months ago
@hoodiefied808 Fair enough I thought you ment people of half Scottish and half Irish decent; albeit, the scots have been fighting the English for longer it was Robert and Edward the Bruce who inspired the irish celts to fight when the Bruce brought his army over to Ireland, you can look into it and if you find something that contradicts that then let us know.
misfitstattoo 5 months ago
@hoodiefied808 Unfortunate for those that feel that way.
MazingerZoo 2 months ago
@hoodiefied808 Well, fuck you.
flahertysb22 1 month ago
@hoodiefied808 yep correct thast why the pipes were banned in Scotland after the 1745, along with wearing a kilt etc (look it up and prove me wrong). and Orangemen have the cheek to play bagpipes cheeky fuckers.
Grifflaw 1 month ago 3
This is the most definitive version on the net
satyrix1 1 year ago
hearing him sing this song remids me of when my uncle sang it to the first time in belfast
MrSkoll88 1 year ago
Tiocfaidh Ár Lá
1916Liam 1 year ago
There are versions of this song-one of Grainnes castle near my family home at the top of Lough Mask is named Caislean na Coileach. ( I think its Coileach) or Castle of the rooster. Local legend has it that Grace was turned into a rooster, and can still be heard roosting on the island within the csatle precincts. , so they say...
magiclard 1 year ago
For one of the truths about the many lies told about Germany.
Google:
The Liberation of the Camps: Facts vs. Lies by Theodore J. O' Keefe.
If you want facts that go against all the other lies go to Institute for Historical Review (ihr.org) and click on their archives. Start reading and researching.
Germany has been lied to and lied about. The proof is all there and documented.
LogNaSionna 1 year ago
love how all americans think they are irish
privatejizzmiester94 1 year ago
@privatejizzmiester94 I might have Irish(Cork/Limerick) roots but I know my place in the world. I am an American national that will never change. I keep from being a true plastic paddy by reading history and the news but I know no matter what I will always be called a plastic paddy.
Drunkgrenadier 1 year ago
@Drunkgrenadier - I'm right there with you. My grandmother was a Northern Irish Catholic and moved to the US to start a new life with her husband. I am very proud of my Irish heritage, I read the history, the mythology (Cattle Raid of Cooley, Fenian Cycle, all that jazz), play Irish folk music, and I am even in the process of learning to speak Gaelige. But, no matter how hard we try, we will always be labeled as plastic paddys. All we can do is keep on singing. Éireann go Brách
4DFilmz 1 year ago
@4DFilmz
Heh, we could make some more Irish speaking townships(which we have a few in the US to date). Have them come over and say "look at those plastic paddys". lol
Drunkgrenadier 1 year ago
@privatejizzmiester94 probbaly because alot of them are
paddyjoeridge 1 year ago
this really is amazing...young poeple need to see this. Its almost like looking back in time...if your Irish (speaking for americans) this is what your great grandparents used to hear at the pub
...wish i was there...great stuff!
usulkane 1 year ago 2
@usulkane young people don't need to see this! older people need to get out more and see the young people outside the Gweedore getting a smoke absolutely plastered roaring at the top of thier voice "Níl sé ina lá, níl a ghrá,
níl sé ina lá is ní bheidh go maidin,
níl sé ina lá is ní bheidh go fóill,
solas ard atá sa ghealaigh."
Irish is still alive and to those who say it's dying, I say; there's too many people making sure it's not!
whatdeyecallher 1 year ago 2
Such a beautiful song, and Gaelic is a wonder language and it is a shame that the Irish were forced to rid themselves of it due to us bloody Brits...i should love to learn it :)
VJVE1945 1 year ago 3
@VJVE1945 :we werent all forced to speak english... Im 15 and fluent in irish
keon850 1 year ago
@keon850 r u in an all irish skool ?? im irish nd im nt lyyk
Jedwardfan2k9 1 year ago
Ich bin stolz drauf halb deutsch, halb irisch zu sein. Erin go Bragh!
EarlyGoesHollywood 1 year ago
tiocfaidh ar la
craddy96 1 year ago
From across the sea! I love nothing more then the sound of the Irish language. I'm soon to try to learn it through and through.
TheAmericanNative 1 year ago 2
What dialect of Irish is this? I noticed a few lyrics were different than the standard lyrics you find on the internet, the last chorus for example. Any help appreciated.
AngloSaxonLoyalist 1 year ago 2
@AngloSaxonLoyalist Darach Ó Catháin (1922-1987) was born in Maimin, Lettermore, Connemara, but his family moved to Rath Cairn in County Meath when he was 13. Keep in mind that this video is from 1980, so his teeth probably weren't what they were, and this could have affected his articulation. As far as the difference in lyrics, there are infinite versions of this song, only a sliver which can be found on the web.
j0llygr33ng1ant 1 year ago
sin corcaigh
johnmcork 1 year ago
right nothin against the english but come on you made us proud irish lose our national language most people dont talk it anymore and i dont either i feel sick now becouse i will never get to learn it as much as i could have
ADAMlwr1 1 year ago
how do you pronouce the last part of the chorus? the "anois......" part?
0NEVERHIDE0 1 year ago
@0NEVERHIDE0 The last line of the chorus is 'anois ar theacht and tsamhraidh' - now that the summer is coming. Roughly phonetically 'anish air hyacht an tawrig'. Thats the best I can do... varies of course depending where in the country your from.
staffattack 1 year ago
Wow. This language should be spoken more.
ztad 1 year ago
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sallowjoohn 1 year ago
my grandparents spoke gaelic!! god rest their souls!!
TheLadyjazzy1 1 year ago
Shame on you Ireland! English language must not be official language in Ireland. Irishmen should to speak their own language. I understand that English killed people in Ireland because they spoke Gaelige, but we (Serbs) have lived under Turkish occupation for 500 years, but we still speak our BEAUTIFUL Serbian language. I am sorry because of mistakes, but English is my S E C O N D language. A country without language is country without soul! Greetings from Boris B. and Teodora M.-CELTIC Girl
zex654 1 year ago
hvala - go raibh maith agat
as an irishman ive long admired the serbs and their culture . Ive visited serbia too , Belgrade , and Irish music is very popular there . Orthodox celts .
thanks for your comment
kbcmighty 1 year ago
@zex654 you mentioned Ottoman Turks Occupation on your comment. Why dont you mention about Ottoman Turks treatments towards minorities in the Empire? Do Ottoman Turks forbid language of local people or practing religious or destroy monasties!
to open cells in your brain search this Mehmed II's Firman on the freedom of the Bosnian Franciscans!!!!
budesliga22 1 year ago
@zex654 The English occupied Ireland for nearly a thousand years, so you can't blame people for losing grasp of Gaelic. Also the northern half of Ireland still is part of Britain and so prefer to speak English
DominionOfTheSword 1 year ago
yes as we say Tír gan teanga tír gan anam. we are stil growing and promoting our language, good for you that after occupation you still speak Turkish, but we are not all that lucky. this comment made me mad, because you have no idea the torture and brutality that irish people went through. out language was suppressed along with our rights but it is stil alive today. so not shame on us!!!
cupcakeofjesus 1 year ago 2
Is cuimhin liom foghlaim an amhrán seo ar an scoil le fada fada ó shin. Go hálainn ar fad ♥
clarebannerman 1 year ago
bi ag cain gaeilge
an amhranai
STPATSCM92 1 year ago
Why Irish people dont speak this wonderful language? they speak English?
budesliga22 1 year ago 3
@budesliga22
you see,the seemless tradition of parents passing irish to their spawn was intrruptd,and in places,practically severed. you cant pass it on if you aint got it! consciously deciding to learn irish,in this country as it is now, would only be marginally less difficult than learning french or german,and of far less use in securing employment. Has a magical sound to it tho, gorgeous way of organising the words too
BIGyinlittleYANG 1 year ago
I understand now! i am sorry about unfortunate events of past and caused such consequences in Irish people history!
budesliga22 1 year ago
He has a native-speaker sound to his voice, much like American Indians do to theirs, somthing that can't be replicated, and the perfect way to tell that this guy is a native speaker.
Thrawn6211 1 year ago
That's for sure, this guy's voice is Irish through and through. The way his Irish sounds you know he's been speaking it since forever.
Valicore 1 year ago 3
Animated version on my page with sing-along irish subtitles for anyone interested in learning the song!!!
Glgebhrste 2 years ago
Thosaigh mé ag cuineadh nuair a chuala mé an amhrán iontach seo... tá mé cobh ceardeanna go bhfuil mé ó Éire agus go bhfuil mé abailte an Gaeilge a labhairt !
Amhrán iontach ar fad Darach !
joycer96 2 years ago
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For long time I hear different version this song.
At one I have seen "If thi song doesn't stir the Irish soul -- nothing else will. "
AM I IRISH ?
szczurekprzepyszny 2 years ago
iontach maith ar fad, gaelige abu,!!!!!!
Inferno283 2 years ago
sinead o'connor sing;s good to this great song .....with words in more info.'\\\\
kilfinan1 2 years ago
This nowhere near his best work....written by Padraig Pearse, it talks about Grainne Mhaol coming to free Ireland with a huge army. Grainne Mhaol was actually on the English side at the end of the 9 year war!
Darach O Cathain was our greatest sean nos singer. Listen to his version of Sal Og Rua.
bramstokerful 2 years ago 3
@bramstokerful : Grainne Mhaol is actually Grainne O' Malley otherwise known as the pirate queen! do you eve n speak Gaelige?
keon850 2 years ago
No - the original version was Jacobite. Pearse bastardised the original Catholic Irish Jacobite version and produced a racist, nationalist version. However, he cocked up. Grainne Mhaol was, as keon850 points out, allied with the Protestant English and Pearse turns the Spanish into an enemy (de Valera notwithstanding) whereas the Jacobite version looked to the French and Spanish for help against the oppressors. This version is not as good as the Jacobite version altho' Darach is great!
Jacobitejim 2 years ago
@Jacobitejim Pearse doesn't turn the Spanish into an enemy; rather he says that the earlier Irish attempts to coordinate their risings with the invasions of foreign powers (Felipe, Napoleon) came to naught, and that this time the Irish will rely on their own resources- with help from their brethren living in the diaspora (i.e. Boston!) Sinn Fein- We Ourselves Alone
maharal9 1 year ago
you can really hear the difference in how a native speaker and someone who learned the language sings this one...
Frankieireland 2 years ago
Yeah, you're so right. I can't speak Irish but I love listening to it and this singer just sounds so much 'richer' in his pronounciation than others.
shibec69 2 years ago
Thats how it sung properly. He has oro se do bheath abhaile released on his album too, the way he sings it in the album is something else aswell, different to this.
parade0000 2 years ago
is grá liom an ceol Ghaeilge!
ainebabesxo 2 years ago
go hálainn, cathain a bhí an clip sin tógtha?
irishfella1987 2 years ago
Beautiful. Makes this mutt yank (Murphy) want to learn Irish.
mpm505 2 years ago