My Mother would have loved listening to the Singing and the Music. My GrandFather was a Grant from Tomitoul. Who spoke the Gael. He didn't live long enough to pass the language to his Grand Children living in Australia. Nor to my Mother. Mores the Pity as its part of my family Heritage now lost
@Sipatbana It's not lost necessarily. You can still study the language can't you? I wish you well in doing so and recovering that lost part of your heritage my brother.
@mattxr2i My Brother Celt I am happy enough to treasure my heritage as is. Even though I can not speak the language of my Fore Fathers. Their Blood Run Strong in me and always will
No, 'tis Karan Casey and Karen Matheson, the Queen of Gallic singing, who are tops by a narrow margin - but they're all great!!
Beannachtaí go léir ó na hAlban-na hAstráile ina gcónaí i Londain a bhfuil Gaeilge níos fearr ná a chuid Gaeilge na hAlban na hÉireann - agus ceachtar acu dea!
unicornswithaids Thanks,I thought as much. The Highland and Transatlantic Sessions are not shown on American television, and I find them a real treasure trove of great music. My friends mostly hate the trad stuff, preferring Celtic Thunder and Celtic Women, which is shown here, but it seems a little too flashy for me. Sliante!
Mary Ann Kennedy the sweetest of sweet voices- ach bail o dhia oraibh uilig! Scoth na h-Alban is fiorscoth na h-Eireann. What a marvellous minstrelsy...Is sibhse laochra Gael na linne seo.
I wonder if the Irish Gaelic speakers could answer a question. I am an American with 3 grandparents from the Republic of Ireland, all passed on now, some of whom who spoke this language. Can you guys understand Scottish Gaelic such as the language used by Scottish folk singer Julie Fowlis. Is it like the difference between American English and Irish English, which we have a hard time understanding sometimes? Thanks in advance for your input.
Simple answer is no. I have a friend from an island of Scotland who speaks scots-gaelige and we have tried it. A few words are similar (such as bainne for milk is more or less the same) but a conversation couldn't happen.
Yes, especially if you are from the North of the island! My granda' never spoke English too well, and he never spoke the artificial, "standard Irish"!
He spoke Donegal Gaelic, and he always said that Scots Gaidhlig was the easiest to understand for him, because, "it made sense to his ears"! It was far easier for him than, the Munster or Connaught dialects of Gaelige!
BTW, there is only 1 Gaelic language, with Scots & Irish dialects.
our songs are so sad and hauntingly beautiful .... warrior ports ... and we do not forget ... "when God made the Scots he made them made, for their wars are merry and music sad .... Creston, North Carolina at the mither tip of Bennachie
I know the lassies/Colleens here have by far the best voices, but Allan MacDonald's wee contribution, ( he's a Pibroch Piper, not a singer), is strangely touching nonetheless, for all that!
It's emotion over ability in a sense, and all the better for it...
I found this video about 6 months or longer ago while looking for Karen Matheson videos. I watched and listened to the Highland Sessions recordings here so often (and I liked them more every time) that I ordered the DVD from a Scotland-based shop, and this song is the one that forwarded my decision most. These Sessions are definitely among the best productions the BBC has ever come forth with.
I first heard this great song in Scannell's Pub in Baile Mhuirne (Ballyvourney) County Cork in August 1972. I think that it was composed in the 18th century in support of the Jacobite cause which died at Culloden. I am told that the the tune is actually from Scotland.
Iarla O Lionaird is from the Ballyvourney district.
Hauntingly beautiful anywhere but this version stands out - magnificent - thar foir ar fad.
Could someone get me the lyrics for this version please! It's the most complete one I've ever heard. No translation necessary. Not that I understand what's being said. I just don't want a translation right now. I want to hear the words themselves without worrying about meaning, at least for the moment. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Wow! What a cool night I am having right now. Listening to Celtic music sung in the original Gaelic language, drinking a Guinness with a big greenwing macaw on my shoulder... I so feel like a pirate right now lol! All I need is an eye patch :-)
I love this!!! Absolutely amazing! These vocalists are just wonderful! I am so glad that I became a fan of Celtic Woman because not only did I get to hear their inspiring music but I also found this wonderful performance!!
This weekend there is an anual tribute to three pioneers here who fought at Culloden Moor and are burried here. . A cairn to their memory is in their new home of Knoydart / Lismore Nova Scotia Canada
Ós rud é gur féidir leat léamh na Gaeilge ba chóir duit dul agus na foinsí bunaidh a léamh agus feicfidh tú nach raibh muintir na hÉireann ach Caitlicigh Seacaibíteach reibiliúnaithe poblachtacha agus go raibh sé an caillteanas na teanga Ghaelach a thoradh sin glacadh an Poblachtánach Tugadh isteach go dtí Éirinn ag Protastúnaigh Angla-Ghaeilge atá agat Wolfe Tone, Edward Fitzgerald agus Robert Emmet.
@DonegalRaymie201 oh, sorry for my lack of knowledge.. is Gaidhlig the correct spelling in Scotland, right? by the way, how these singers learn these regional languages? do they, do you learn and speak it at home or at school? and how do you think foreigners learning it? i'm so curious. these languages just simply attract me lots musically and linguistically. they seem so much different to English and those languags in the neighbouring countries..
It's Gaidhlig (say "gahlik" softly and you're there!) in Scotland (Alba), and Gaelige (say "gaylik") in Ireland (Eireann). They are not really seperate languages, but different dialects of the 1 shared language, with slight differences of pronounciation, but identical roots & grammar.
The Scots originally came from the North of Ireland and took their gaelic with them, (the land is only 15 Km apart at it's closest point & you would think you could swim it!)
@DonegalRaymie201 i love to learn much more about the lands and culture you're in. your stories reminded me of an English teacher from Ireland i met a decade ago. she was writing the diary in Gaelige, she said she was from Dublin so she wasn't native in it. but she studied it and using it not to forget while she was in the overseas. she also played the penny-whistle. she didn't go back to her land, but she moved to Barcelona for owning a Mexican tavern with her friend.. life as journey.
@Geordun o'thank you! i'll visit a library and sure i'll read it whole this time. i actually remember merely a part of it. i think it was the ending part the king Arthur won the wars and got rid of the Gaels from the lands.. i felt it was bloody boring story those days, but my teacher(from county Kent) seemed so excited to tell the stories to me. and it fucked me off some way since i was too young..
The singers here are all native, 1st language speakers of Gaelic. This in not a "dead" language by any means, but used daily by Gaels in the west of Ireland & the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. Everyone in Ireland learns some Gaelic at school, and in Scotland they have many Gaelic medium schools, even in Glasgow.
There is Gaelic in the names of almost every mountain, loch/lough and town, and in all our Mac or O' surnames: Next time you visit McDonalds (MacDomhnaill), think of us!
@DonegalRaymie201 oh, you've corrected my misunderstanding. Scots came from northern Ireland! it was totally out of my imagination. i wrongly thought the Protestants moved there from Scotland! how about the Welsh? they also came from Ireland, right? anyways, Britain seemed to me English-centred nation, but now things look pretty opposite. in fact, English is surrounded by the Gaels! well, my own pc is Mackintosh!!
They did, but much, much later. It wasn't Northern Ireland then of course, but the ancient Kingdom of Ulster which was NI and 3 more counties now in the Republic of Ireland, mine amongst them!
The name "Scotti" was what the Romans called the people from Ireland (Hibernia), back when they occupied southern Britain or "Brittania" to them. What is now called Scotland, they named "Caledonia", and its' Native people, they called the "Picts", because they painted their bodies for battle.
oustanding comment n thx... the Tribes in the Black North that populated Scotland have neither part nor lot with the main Tribe in the Terrible South... hence the Troubles n Terrorism and meddlin' from the UNholy church...
(cont) I believe there's a film out just now, "The Eagle of the 9th" or "The 9th Legion"? That is set back in the times of the Roman invasion and the Lost Legion of Romans in ancient Caledonia amongst the Picts.
The "Scotti" from Ulster started to occupy the west coast of Caledonia around the 4th & 5th centuries, and eventually the country was named after them. It's difficult to convey just how physically close Ulster and Scotland are, and for centuries, they were the 1 kingdom!
"how about the Welsh? they also came from Ireland, right?"
No, but they are fellow Celts. The Welsh ARE the ancient Britons, the people who the Romans found when they first came in 55BC. St. Patrick, Ireland's Patron Saint was a Welshman or a Romano-Briton, if you prefer.
The Welsh language, along with Breton (in Brittany, north west France) & Cornish are the other branch of the Celtic Language Family along with Irish & Scots gaelic.
This is one of the most powerfully emotional videos I have watched in a long time. The individual voices, the sound of the voices together, the emotion on their faces...wow. I've been a fan of the Transatlantic Sessions series but never knew this existed until now. I'm definitely getting this DVD now...thank you so much for posting this.
@jlmr417 I first heard Mo Ghille Mear from Celtic Woman. I really like both versions they do of it. But this... This rendition... is just fantastic! Like you said, the emotion and vocals are amazing! If I could have this stuck in my head 24/7 I would be blessed!
Mo Ghile Mear (Seán Clárach MacDomhnaill) Curfá: Sé mo laoch mo Ghile Mear ‘Sé mo Chaesar, Ghile Mear, Suan ná séan ní bhfuaireas féin Ó chuaigh i gcéin mo Ghile Mear. Seal da rabhas im’ mhaighdean shéimh, ‘S anois im’ bhaintreach chaite thréith, Mo chéile ag treabhadh na dtonn go tréan De bharr na gcnoc is imigéin.
Chorus The cuckoo doesn't sing cheerfully after noon, And the sound of hounds isn't heard in the nut-tree woods, Nor a summer morning in a misty glen Since my my lively boy went away from me. Chorus Gallant Darling for a while under sorrow, And Ireland completely under black cloaks; I have found neither rest nor fortune Since my Gallant Darling went far away.
My gentle Darling Chorus: He's my champion my Gallant Darling, he's my Caesar, a Gallant Darling, I've found neither rest nor fortune since my Gallant Darling went far away. Once i was gentle maiden, but now I'm a spent, worn-out widow, my consort strongly plowing the waves, over the hills and far away. Chorus Every day I'm constantly enduring grief, weeping nitterly and shedding tears, because my lively lad has left me and no news is told of him - alas.
MMy gentle Darling Chorus: He's my champion my Gallant Darling, he's my Caesar, a Gallant Darling, I've found neither rest nor fortune since my Gallant Darling went far away. Once i was gentle maiden, but now I'm a spent, worn-out widow, my consort strongly plowing the waves, over the hills and far away.
@nakama5o6 - Actually No. Clan Macdonald of Clanranald is a Scottish clan and a branch of Clan Donald one of the largest Scottish clans and prominent in Eilean Siar. The founder of the Macdonalds of Clanranald is Reginald, 4th great-grandson of Somerled. The Macdonalds of Clanranald descend from Reginald's elder son Allan and the MacDonells of Glengarry descend from his younger son Donald. Clan Donald fought in the left side at the battle of Culloden instead of the traditional right.
Yes it was a vain hope in a coward who wasn't even at the level of a rogue-- But the song itself, stands on its own. It well expresses Gaelic grief at the English boot.
Decades later, under the impact of the French Revolution more worthy fighters for Ireland would arise in the form of Wolfe Tone & the United Irishmen.
Wonderful, wonderful. Everyone does a great job here. But I have to say that Karen Mathieson is - as ever - simply marvellous. Although this song articulates the Irish view of Bonnie Prince Charlie, any song which addresses the '45 (especially one in Gaelic) has a particular power for people from Scotland. Culloden marked the beginning of the systematic dismantling of Gaelic civilisation in Scotland.
May I quote you a verse or two about Charlie? From Brian MacNiell?
"While he ran like a rabbit doon the glen, leivin' better men than him to be slaughtered!"
"Bonnie Prince Charlie" was the worst thing that ever happened to the Highland Scots! A genuine Coward, who led good good men to their death on his opportunism! I really hope there's a special place in hell for that c*nt!(I'm sorry I don't know the Gaidhlig for it!)
@DonegalRaymie201 Thanks for your post on Charlie - I'm always catching flack when I try to tell people how badly he did for Scotland. He should have stayed in France drinking with the ladies, as it appears that is what he did best. I feel the song really represents the hope that the Scots had for reclaiming their own Country and like it for that...
@DonegalRaymie201 True. Charlie undoubtedly was not prepared (and able) to defend the highlanders after the uprising. However, passing all the blame to him for the genocide which followed was a tactic of those who attempted to excuse the part the Government played in the whole thing. The tactic started not long after the uprising. Walter Scott (a whig to the core) in Waverley had one of the highlanders 'confess' that they were responsible for hat followed (the genocide).
@malcolmcean Charles Stuart was a disaster for Scotland. His attempt at claiming the throne was ill advised. At least he had the option of running away back to France then Italy, unlike the loyal men he left behind to face the consequences of a vicious Hanovarian backlash.
ok i am now and forever hopelessly homesick. this was sung at my daddy's funeral (so i was told. i was still in hospital) . it was his way to put me to sleep when i was a wee girl.
@baawuffwuff You'll find them on the internet. I wish people would'nt translate this as 'Gallant Darling' it means My Swift Warrior/hero. Ireland, the abandoned widow wants someone to fight for her.
yeah,i dont know lads and lass,the best music too date,thank you.i could sit here allnight writting shit but please everyone just have a hear for your self,s
@DonegalRaymie201 Karan casey is irish gael born county waterford in ireland but thanks for the second information. Do you know which gaelic is used and sung here ?
And Mary Black is I believe, from Rathlin Island, almost halfway between the two. Many people misunderstand, there is only one Gaelic language at heart, at the core. The differences between Munster, Connacht, Ulster & Scots Gaelic(of which there are also variants), are like different dialects of the same tongue. They differ a little in pronunciation is all! Just as dialects of English varied hugely before standardised English on TV & Radio took hold. Modern "Irish" is doing the same!
Sorry, forgot to answer your question. They sing this in modern standard Irish Gaelic, as that's how it is written. That the two Scots have no trouble singing it, tells you how close they are. Standard "Irish" is based on Munster pronunciation.
I don't like the recent habit of refering to the language as "Irish"; it doesn't refer to itself as "Eireannach", but "Gaelige", and Gaelic is a closer translation in English. It also preserves the link to Alba, our sister across the sea.
Tír gan teanga tír gan anam! Deir a lán daoine nach bhfuil aon áit don ghaeilge in Eirinn anois ach diúltaím é sin a chreidiúint! tá orainn glacadh leis nach bhfuil gaeilge mar phríomhtheanga an tír seo agus nach mbeidh sí ina príomhtheanga go deo! Tagann Ghaeilge aníos chugann ón ár sinsir-na ceiltigh-in ainneoinn iarrachtaí na Sasanach í a mharú agus in aineoinn an Ghorta Mór! Cuid dár n-oidhreacht is ea ár dteanga! Tugann sí féiniúlacht dúínn agus is seoid í!
@xrebel4evrx Táim ar aon fhocal leat, a chara. Músclaíonn an cur i láthair seo fíor-mhéid bróid ionam mar fhear Éireannach, is, go háirithe, mar Ghaeilgeoir. Bíonn foclaíocht shéimh na Gaeilge ar bharr mo theanga i gcónaí agus beidh amhlaidh an cás go lá mo bháis ...
@lsdvine No its an irish lament about the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie by Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill. The irish hoped that bonnie prince charlie would win and give Ireland its freedom
@culabula92 Thankyou for the info... But i must add that this style does not really sound irish apart from the language of course. I am not saying it sounds bad it just sounds 'americanised' somehow.
I'm not Irish but I felt like crying when I first heard this version of the song. It is moving, as European and human being, to hear Celtic language after all that Celtic culture has gone through!
See the look the singers have in their eyes when they sing this song... touching!
Long live Gaelic language and Celtic cultures in Wales, in Scotland, in Cornwall and Britain.
@culabula92 : you're perfectly right of course. What I meant to say was: Long live etc. etc. ALSO in Wales, in Cornwall, in Scotland and in Brittany. Since it is Irish Ireland was implicit. Sorry :-)
35 Million Irish immigrants 3rd Generation or less (out of the 70 million ethnic irish abroad) 5 Million "scots irish" or ulster protestants, and another few million Scottish-Americans ... not Even getting into the millions of Welsh or British Americans. And that's just counting recent extraction, not those who assimilated and helped forge this new culture on a new continent.
@DonegalRaymie201 My forebearers were among those who settled in Nova Scotia. A number of years ago the international gathering of the clans was held in NS for ther first time outside Scotland. A local writer noted "I wish the chief of my clan would come to my home so I could throw him out!" LOL!
"Chan eil inneal ciùil a ghleusar, dhùisgeadh smuain mo chridhe le aoibh, mar nì duan o bheòil nan cailean ..." Mìle beannachd leibhse uile.
marconatrix 15 hours ago
Very proud to be Irish listening to this. It was played at a funeral I was at today for a great gaelgoir. Go hÁlainn.
roytheboy68 4 days ago
This is beautiful - a wonderful example of Celtic singing (Irish in this case, I think?).
tachuman 3 weeks ago
Such beautiful people. Such astonishing voices. Such mesmerizing language.
MoireeMia 3 weeks ago
Éirinn go Brách
mattxr2i 1 month ago
I just love this!
mattxr2i 1 month ago
I've played this song on the funeral of my boyfriend .... thank you sooooooo much for the upload !!!!!!
Digthatcat1960 1 month ago
Listening to this... I don't understand a word, but I understand EVERY word.
I can feel my great grandparents poking me in my DNA.
Thank you so much for posting this. <3 from Australia.
AlternateTunerDotCom 1 month ago 2
Karen Casey is cute and has a freaky cute little voice.
allisonforfornsed 1 month ago 3
My Mother would have loved listening to the Singing and the Music. My GrandFather was a Grant from Tomitoul. Who spoke the Gael. He didn't live long enough to pass the language to his Grand Children living in Australia. Nor to my Mother. Mores the Pity as its part of my family Heritage now lost
Sipatbana 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@Sipatbana It's not lost necessarily. You can still study the language can't you? I wish you well in doing so and recovering that lost part of your heritage my brother.
mattxr2i 1 month ago
@mattxr2i My Brother Celt I am happy enough to treasure my heritage as is. Even though I can not speak the language of my Fore Fathers. Their Blood Run Strong in me and always will
Sipatbana 2 weeks ago
@mattxr2i ........Irish Language classes are available here in Boston
Irish61248 2 weeks ago
@Irish61248 Too bad I live in Ohio lol.
mattxr2i 2 weeks ago
When people say the Jacobite cause is dead, I simply reply "Charlie yet!". An Rí bás riamh. Beo agus a successos. Is é an Rí marbh, beo fada an Rí!
Jacobitejim 2 months ago
An gcreidfeá go bhfuil an t-amhrán seo á úsáid i bhfógra Specsavers faoi láthair?!
RoghaAnLae 2 months ago
Tá an fonn Albanach agus do b'Éireannach (Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill) a chum na focail.
Má tá saghas "amhráin náisiúnta" ag teastáil ó na Gaedhil choidhche dhéanfadh an ceann so an gnó go deas!
MacRiocaird 2 months ago
No, 'tis Karan Casey and Karen Matheson, the Queen of Gallic singing, who are tops by a narrow margin - but they're all great!!
Beannachtaí go léir ó na hAlban-na hAstráile ina gcónaí i Londain a bhfuil Gaeilge níos fearr ná a chuid Gaeilge na hAlban na hÉireann - agus ceachtar acu dea!
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Jacobitejim 2 months ago
unicornswithaids Thanks,I thought as much. The Highland and Transatlantic Sessions are not shown on American television, and I find them a real treasure trove of great music. My friends mostly hate the trad stuff, preferring Celtic Thunder and Celtic Women, which is shown here, but it seems a little too flashy for me. Sliante!
guyfihi 2 months ago
Mary Ann Kennedy the sweetest of sweet voices- ach bail o dhia oraibh uilig! Scoth na h-Alban is fiorscoth na h-Eireann. What a marvellous minstrelsy...Is sibhse laochra Gael na linne seo.
HarryHotspur100 2 months ago
I wonder if the Irish Gaelic speakers could answer a question. I am an American with 3 grandparents from the Republic of Ireland, all passed on now, some of whom who spoke this language. Can you guys understand Scottish Gaelic such as the language used by Scottish folk singer Julie Fowlis. Is it like the difference between American English and Irish English, which we have a hard time understanding sometimes? Thanks in advance for your input.
guyfihi 2 months ago
@guyfihi
Simple answer is no. I have a friend from an island of Scotland who speaks scots-gaelige and we have tried it. A few words are similar (such as bainne for milk is more or less the same) but a conversation couldn't happen.
unicornswithaids 2 months ago
@unicornswithaids
It's Scots Gaidhlig for a start, and it's closer to Ulster Gaelige than the Munster or Connacht dialects!
If you care to examine the grammar & vocabulary, they're near identical to the Gaelic of Ulster.
DonegalRaymie201 2 months ago
@guyfihi
Yes, especially if you are from the North of the island! My granda' never spoke English too well, and he never spoke the artificial, "standard Irish"!
He spoke Donegal Gaelic, and he always said that Scots Gaidhlig was the easiest to understand for him, because, "it made sense to his ears"! It was far easier for him than, the Munster or Connaught dialects of Gaelige!
BTW, there is only 1 Gaelic language, with Scots & Irish dialects.
DonegalRaymie201 2 months ago
Ach well its St Andrews Day
Bruchag 3 months ago
guthanna go léir álainn, dea-a fheiceáil ar an teanga gaelach athbheochainte féin arís
jcolleran97 3 months ago
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greasemonkey1228 3 months ago
Ceol álainn x
hEireannSeanan 4 months ago
our songs are so sad and hauntingly beautiful .... warrior ports ... and we do not forget ... "when God made the Scots he made them made, for their wars are merry and music sad .... Creston, North Carolina at the mither tip of Bennachie
Caledonianreb 4 months ago
Gaelic has to be the most beautiful singing language of all time. Just astounding! This music awaken in me things I haven't felt in years!
mattxr2i 4 months ago
I know I'm late to the party, but I can't get enough of this!
Absolutely breathtaking and Beautiful!
Esqpainting 4 months ago in playlist Esqpainting's Favorited Videos
I know the lassies/Colleens here have by far the best voices, but Allan MacDonald's wee contribution, ( he's a Pibroch Piper, not a singer), is strangely touching nonetheless, for all that!
It's emotion over ability in a sense, and all the better for it...
Soar Alba agus Eireann!
DonegalRaymie201 5 months ago
I found this video about 6 months or longer ago while looking for Karen Matheson videos. I watched and listened to the Highland Sessions recordings here so often (and I liked them more every time) that I ordered the DVD from a Scotland-based shop, and this song is the one that forwarded my decision most. These Sessions are definitely among the best productions the BBC has ever come forth with.
Jokaire 5 months ago in playlist Karen Matheson
Where do miracles like this come from?
Esqpainting 5 months ago
I first heard this great song in Scannell's Pub in Baile Mhuirne (Ballyvourney) County Cork in August 1972. I think that it was composed in the 18th century in support of the Jacobite cause which died at Culloden. I am told that the the tune is actually from Scotland.
Iarla O Lionaird is from the Ballyvourney district.
Hauntingly beautiful anywhere but this version stands out - magnificent - thar foir ar fad.
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bweber2k 7 months ago
AMAZING!!
orlastar 7 months ago
Could someone get me the lyrics for this version please! It's the most complete one I've ever heard. No translation necessary. Not that I understand what's being said. I just don't want a translation right now. I want to hear the words themselves without worrying about meaning, at least for the moment. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thank you.
Lara
bip1060 7 months ago
@bip1060 check lyricsfreak for mary black version. Some order and pronunciation variations (last verse for first) I have transtations too, Be well.
spikeBrown12 4 months ago
Wow! What a cool night I am having right now. Listening to Celtic music sung in the original Gaelic language, drinking a Guinness with a big greenwing macaw on my shoulder... I so feel like a pirate right now lol! All I need is an eye patch :-)
mattxr2i 8 months ago
Is this part of a larger production, or longer video? Or is it part of a series of videos? It seems like the ending of something really good.
241hnd 8 months ago
To keep heart and feeling even in grief and loss, is what I'm hearing. The unvanquished.
mookins45 9 months ago
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curach69 9 months ago
I love this!!! Absolutely amazing! These vocalists are just wonderful! I am so glad that I became a fan of Celtic Woman because not only did I get to hear their inspiring music but I also found this wonderful performance!!
PaRrOtReScUeWoTr 9 months ago
FROM ROMANIAN I THANK TOU FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL MUSIC
theruben65 9 months ago
I love the first man's voice! it is soooo powerful
Caitlynsirisheyes 10 months ago
This weekend there is an anual tribute to three pioneers here who fought at Culloden Moor and are burried here. . A cairn to their memory is in their new home of Knoydart / Lismore Nova Scotia Canada
sgtcrab1 10 months ago 8
@sgtcrab1 I'm a proud Nova Scotian and Maritimer!
penna171980 5 months ago
Ós rud é gur féidir leat léamh na Gaeilge ba chóir duit dul agus na foinsí bunaidh a léamh agus feicfidh tú nach raibh muintir na hÉireann ach Caitlicigh Seacaibíteach reibiliúnaithe poblachtacha agus go raibh sé an caillteanas na teanga Ghaelach a thoradh sin glacadh an Poblachtánach Tugadh isteach go dtí Éirinn ag Protastúnaigh Angla-Ghaeilge atá agat Wolfe Tone, Edward Fitzgerald agus Robert Emmet.
Jacobitejim 10 months ago
this's literally amazing.! gorgeous session! i love to learn gaelic and gaeilge, too.
ayanuhito 11 months ago
@ayanuhito
sorry, but Gaeilge and Gaidhlig, bit who cares? These are ...
DonegalRaymie201 11 months ago
@DonegalRaymie201 oh, sorry for my lack of knowledge.. is Gaidhlig the correct spelling in Scotland, right? by the way, how these singers learn these regional languages? do they, do you learn and speak it at home or at school? and how do you think foreigners learning it? i'm so curious. these languages just simply attract me lots musically and linguistically. they seem so much different to English and those languags in the neighbouring countries..
ayanuhito 11 months ago
@ayanuhito
It's Gaidhlig (say "gahlik" softly and you're there!) in Scotland (Alba), and Gaelige (say "gaylik") in Ireland (Eireann). They are not really seperate languages, but different dialects of the 1 shared language, with slight differences of pronounciation, but identical roots & grammar.
The Scots originally came from the North of Ireland and took their gaelic with them, (the land is only 15 Km apart at it's closest point & you would think you could swim it!)
DonegalRaymie201 11 months ago 3
@DonegalRaymie201 i love to learn much more about the lands and culture you're in. your stories reminded me of an English teacher from Ireland i met a decade ago. she was writing the diary in Gaelige, she said she was from Dublin so she wasn't native in it. but she studied it and using it not to forget while she was in the overseas. she also played the penny-whistle. she didn't go back to her land, but she moved to Barcelona for owning a Mexican tavern with her friend.. life as journey.
ayanuhito 11 months ago
@ayanuhito
A good book to read would be "The age of Arthur".(A history of the British isles from 350 to 650) by John Morris.
Be warned, it is a bit of a heavy read and it does not pull its punches, Some of it I Knew (even if its not taught in school)
Geordun 11 months ago
@Geordun o'thank you! i'll visit a library and sure i'll read it whole this time. i actually remember merely a part of it. i think it was the ending part the king Arthur won the wars and got rid of the Gaels from the lands.. i felt it was bloody boring story those days, but my teacher(from county Kent) seemed so excited to tell the stories to me. and it fucked me off some way since i was too young..
ayanuhito 11 months ago
@ayanuhito
The singers here are all native, 1st language speakers of Gaelic. This in not a "dead" language by any means, but used daily by Gaels in the west of Ireland & the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. Everyone in Ireland learns some Gaelic at school, and in Scotland they have many Gaelic medium schools, even in Glasgow.
There is Gaelic in the names of almost every mountain, loch/lough and town, and in all our Mac or O' surnames: Next time you visit McDonalds (MacDomhnaill), think of us!
DonegalRaymie201 11 months ago 3
@DonegalRaymie201 oh, you've corrected my misunderstanding. Scots came from northern Ireland! it was totally out of my imagination. i wrongly thought the Protestants moved there from Scotland! how about the Welsh? they also came from Ireland, right? anyways, Britain seemed to me English-centred nation, but now things look pretty opposite. in fact, English is surrounded by the Gaels! well, my own pc is Mackintosh!!
ayanuhito 11 months ago
@ayanuhito
They did, but much, much later. It wasn't Northern Ireland then of course, but the ancient Kingdom of Ulster which was NI and 3 more counties now in the Republic of Ireland, mine amongst them!
The name "Scotti" was what the Romans called the people from Ireland (Hibernia), back when they occupied southern Britain or "Brittania" to them. What is now called Scotland, they named "Caledonia", and its' Native people, they called the "Picts", because they painted their bodies for battle.
DonegalRaymie201 11 months ago
@DonegalRaymie201
oustanding comment n thx... the Tribes in the Black North that populated Scotland have neither part nor lot with the main Tribe in the Terrible South... hence the Troubles n Terrorism and meddlin' from the UNholy church...
utcaveman 10 months ago
@ayanuhito
(cont) I believe there's a film out just now, "The Eagle of the 9th" or "The 9th Legion"? That is set back in the times of the Roman invasion and the Lost Legion of Romans in ancient Caledonia amongst the Picts.
The "Scotti" from Ulster started to occupy the west coast of Caledonia around the 4th & 5th centuries, and eventually the country was named after them. It's difficult to convey just how physically close Ulster and Scotland are, and for centuries, they were the 1 kingdom!
DonegalRaymie201 11 months ago
@ayanuhito
"how about the Welsh? they also came from Ireland, right?"
No, but they are fellow Celts. The Welsh ARE the ancient Britons, the people who the Romans found when they first came in 55BC. St. Patrick, Ireland's Patron Saint was a Welshman or a Romano-Briton, if you prefer.
The Welsh language, along with Breton (in Brittany, north west France) & Cornish are the other branch of the Celtic Language Family along with Irish & Scots gaelic.
DonegalRaymie201 11 months ago
@ayanuhito and macintosh is an anglisized scottish name Mac an Tòisich the son of the prince
seonidh 9 months ago
This... is... BEAUTIFUL! I absolutely love the Gaelic language, especially as a singing language! This is wonderful!
PaRrOtReScUeWoTr 11 months ago 2
This is one of the most powerfully emotional videos I have watched in a long time. The individual voices, the sound of the voices together, the emotion on their faces...wow. I've been a fan of the Transatlantic Sessions series but never knew this existed until now. I'm definitely getting this DVD now...thank you so much for posting this.
jlmr417 1 year ago 17
@jlmr417 I first heard Mo Ghille Mear from Celtic Woman. I really like both versions they do of it. But this... This rendition... is just fantastic! Like you said, the emotion and vocals are amazing! If I could have this stuck in my head 24/7 I would be blessed!
mattxr2i 8 months ago
OMG I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO SPEAK THE CELTIC LANGUAGE, I LOVE IT
THE CELTIC WOMAN SINGS BETTER THESE SONG
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love this!!! I could listen to it over and over!
intofineart 1 year ago 2
Beautiful performance. I must say I love the Gaelic language! It is such a beautiful language to sing in :-)
mattxr2i 1 year ago
they all look like sisters, the celtic blood is strong....
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cosinbrother 1 year ago
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cosinbrother 1 year ago
MacDonald of Clanranald should have sent Charles Edward Stewart packing when his ship landed in that fateful day in Eriskay ,1744.
AlbaSiar 1 year ago 2
@AlbaSiar TOTTALY AGREE
JAKWIK 1 year ago
@AlbaSiar
Yes Sir! Charlie was the worst thing to happen to the Highlanders ever!
The line that best describes him is this:
"While he ran like a rabbit doon the Glen, leavin better men than him to be butchered!"
I really detest Charlie & all the crap he pretended to be, he was a coward!
DonegalRaymie201 1 year ago
@AlbaSiar MacDonald from the Clan Ranald?
nakama5o6 1 year ago
@nakama5o6 - Actually No. Clan Macdonald of Clanranald is a Scottish clan and a branch of Clan Donald one of the largest Scottish clans and prominent in Eilean Siar. The founder of the Macdonalds of Clanranald is Reginald, 4th great-grandson of Somerled. The Macdonalds of Clanranald descend from Reginald's elder son Allan and the MacDonells of Glengarry descend from his younger son Donald. Clan Donald fought in the left side at the battle of Culloden instead of the traditional right.
AlbaSiar 1 year ago
Stunning!
rmtsmom 1 year ago
love this song
exttremegolers 1 year ago
hello, could anyone please tell me if this is an earlier series to the one on bbc4 on friday nights now, saw the last two and its just wonderful.
russianpostman 1 year ago
@russianpostman
Yes I've watched that too and it looks like the same series, rather than a new one. But I could be wrong. Anyhow it's quite wonderful.
richardwilson1234 1 year ago
@richardwilson1234 Thanks Mr Wilson, i think youre right - it is wonderful. BBC4 is making some nice folk based programmes at the moment i think.
russianpostman 1 year ago
Alba go Bragh!! Suas e!
Otaku155 1 year ago 3
Yes it was a vain hope in a coward who wasn't even at the level of a rogue-- But the song itself, stands on its own. It well expresses Gaelic grief at the English boot.
Decades later, under the impact of the French Revolution more worthy fighters for Ireland would arise in the form of Wolfe Tone & the United Irishmen.
ilyenkova 1 year ago 2
magic
alexou33 1 year ago
Wonderful, wonderful. Everyone does a great job here. But I have to say that Karen Mathieson is - as ever - simply marvellous. Although this song articulates the Irish view of Bonnie Prince Charlie, any song which addresses the '45 (especially one in Gaelic) has a particular power for people from Scotland. Culloden marked the beginning of the systematic dismantling of Gaelic civilisation in Scotland.
malcolmcean 1 year ago 2
@malcolmcean
May I quote you a verse or two about Charlie? From Brian MacNiell?
"While he ran like a rabbit doon the glen, leivin' better men than him to be slaughtered!"
"Bonnie Prince Charlie" was the worst thing that ever happened to the Highland Scots! A genuine Coward, who led good good men to their death on his opportunism! I really hope there's a special place in hell for that c*nt!(I'm sorry I don't know the Gaidhlig for it!)
"Leavin better men than him to be butchered!"
DonegalRaymie201 1 year ago
@DonegalRaymie201 Thanks for your post on Charlie - I'm always catching flack when I try to tell people how badly he did for Scotland. He should have stayed in France drinking with the ladies, as it appears that is what he did best. I feel the song really represents the hope that the Scots had for reclaiming their own Country and like it for that...
Kelt4ever 1 year ago
@DonegalRaymie201 True. Charlie undoubtedly was not prepared (and able) to defend the highlanders after the uprising. However, passing all the blame to him for the genocide which followed was a tactic of those who attempted to excuse the part the Government played in the whole thing. The tactic started not long after the uprising. Walter Scott (a whig to the core) in Waverley had one of the highlanders 'confess' that they were responsible for hat followed (the genocide).
malcolmcean 1 year ago 2
@malcolmcean Charles Stuart was a disaster for Scotland. His attempt at claiming the throne was ill advised. At least he had the option of running away back to France then Italy, unlike the loyal men he left behind to face the consequences of a vicious Hanovarian backlash.
Damn the Italian coward.
BillDFC 1 year ago 2
One of my favourite versions of the song, fantastic! Does anyone have the lyrics? I can't find a version that contains the verse sung by Karan Casey.
Athleticsfan958 1 year ago
Nom de Dieu, que c'est beau !
zardozfrance 1 year ago
ok i am now and forever hopelessly homesick. this was sung at my daddy's funeral (so i was told. i was still in hospital) . it was his way to put me to sleep when i was a wee girl.
TheSandsie13 1 year ago
Lovely !
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cosinbrother 1 year ago
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MpManiac6 1 year ago
I meant to comment on the instruments, too. What a beautiful rendition.
lokotasioux 1 year ago
Beautiful voices, I love this song, although I don't speak Irish Gaelic.
lokotasioux 1 year ago
what a beautiful version of this song =)
NC199TP 1 year ago
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Would appreciate the words to this lament if anyone has them, in Irish and English.
baawuffwuff 1 year ago
Would appreciate the words to this lament if anyone has them, in Irish and English.
baawuffwuff 1 year ago
@baawuffwuff You'll find them on the internet. I wish people would'nt translate this as 'Gallant Darling' it means My Swift Warrior/hero. Ireland, the abandoned widow wants someone to fight for her.
flanncada 1 year ago
Such aheart warmer from the Gealtach
bsmacd 1 year ago
yeah,i dont know lads and lass,the best music too date,thank you.i could sit here allnight writting shit but please everyone just have a hear for your self,s
smallyoke93 1 year ago
yeah,i dont know lads and lass,the best music too date,thank you.
smallyoke93 1 year ago
dán agus amhrán iontach! ar fheabhas ar fad!
themerman2000 1 year ago
one of my favorite celtic video and song!
Procer86 1 year ago
Its just wunderfull....beautifull culture
lindoriel70 1 year ago
You couldn't have six different voices, but they mesh, even a cappella.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
I hope Yann, "the little irish coffee" will see this!
flieflodderke 1 year ago
Ican't stop listening to this jewel ! so touching indeed ! it shows the power of irish language and the magic of each legendary voices.
Procer86 1 year ago
@Procer86
Karen & Mary-Ann are Scots Gaels, BYW, but both are native Gaelic speakers.
DonegalRaymie201 1 year ago
@DonegalRaymie201 Karan casey is irish gael born county waterford in ireland but thanks for the second information. Do you know which gaelic is used and sung here ?
Procer86 1 year ago
@Procer86
And Mary Black is I believe, from Rathlin Island, almost halfway between the two. Many people misunderstand, there is only one Gaelic language at heart, at the core. The differences between Munster, Connacht, Ulster & Scots Gaelic(of which there are also variants), are like different dialects of the same tongue. They differ a little in pronunciation is all! Just as dialects of English varied hugely before standardised English on TV & Radio took hold. Modern "Irish" is doing the same!
DonegalRaymie201 1 year ago
@DonegalRaymie201 Thanks for information. Their voices are so delightful.
Which gaelic is used here ? the scottish one?
Procer86 1 year ago
@Procer86
Sorry, forgot to answer your question. They sing this in modern standard Irish Gaelic, as that's how it is written. That the two Scots have no trouble singing it, tells you how close they are. Standard "Irish" is based on Munster pronunciation.
I don't like the recent habit of refering to the language as "Irish"; it doesn't refer to itself as "Eireannach", but "Gaelige", and Gaelic is a closer translation in English. It also preserves the link to Alba, our sister across the sea.
DonegalRaymie201 1 year ago
Ba chóir dúinn iarracht níos fearr a dheanamh chun ár dteaga a chur chun cinn!!
xrebel4evrx 1 year ago
@xrebel4evrx Aointaím go huile is go hiomlán leat!
Tá sé uafasach nach bhfuil níos mó daoinaí in ann í a leabhairt.
SteOBrien43 1 year ago
Tír gan teanga tír gan anam! Deir a lán daoine nach bhfuil aon áit don ghaeilge in Eirinn anois ach diúltaím é sin a chreidiúint! tá orainn glacadh leis nach bhfuil gaeilge mar phríomhtheanga an tír seo agus nach mbeidh sí ina príomhtheanga go deo! Tagann Ghaeilge aníos chugann ón ár sinsir-na ceiltigh-in ainneoinn iarrachtaí na Sasanach í a mharú agus in aineoinn an Ghorta Mór! Cuid dár n-oidhreacht is ea ár dteanga! Tugann sí féiniúlacht dúínn agus is seoid í!
xrebel4evrx 1 year ago 10
@xrebel4evrx I couldn't read this, but I saw this word: Sasanach.
LOL.
Texas Chuck - Rebel Forever, myself.
SilverSumo 1 year ago
@xrebel4evrx Táim ar aon fhocal leat, a chara. Músclaíonn an cur i láthair seo fíor-mhéid bróid ionam mar fhear Éireannach, is, go háirithe, mar Ghaeilgeoir. Bíonn foclaíocht shéimh na Gaeilge ar bharr mo theanga i gcónaí agus beidh amhlaidh an cás go lá mo bháis ...
frenchlearner7 10 months ago
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@xrebel4evrx I wish I could learn this beautiful language. Be very proud!
Níl mé Gaeilge, ach is breá liom na hÉireann! Language and culture!
Curach
curach69 9 months ago
fabulous...so very moving...and I don't even know what they're singing
nextlifearotti 1 year ago
Fantastic
CredoCatholicJournal 1 year ago
The language is not Celtic, it is Gaelic
Norfolkscot 1 year ago
@Norfolkscot Gaeilge to be precise, still one of the Celtic languages. But you're right there's no such language as Celtic
culabula92 1 year ago
Is it ok to say that karan casey looks exceptionally cute in this video?
God... I hope one day I'll have the pleasure of tripping and landing on top of her. And then of course do the whole irish catholic family thing....
DancesWithLlamas 1 year ago
@DancesWithLlamas
I myself was just about to ask if anyone knew if Karan Casey was single
JEdz1000 1 year ago
@JEdz1000
I have to agree with both of you, Karen Casey looked lovely in this video.
ArchangelUriel2 1 year ago
scots gospel?
lsdvine 1 year ago
@lsdvine No its an irish lament about the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie by Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill. The irish hoped that bonnie prince charlie would win and give Ireland its freedom
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lsdvine 1 year ago
@culabula92 Thankyou for the info... But i must add that this style does not really sound irish apart from the language of course. I am not saying it sounds bad it just sounds 'americanised' somehow.
lsdvine 1 year ago
This is one superb version! I was crying like little baby when hearing this jewel of Irish music :-)
Bohous26 1 year ago
@Bohous26 oh yeah man, me too!!! and i'm not an irish...
lutto7 1 year ago
Wonderful.
Caledonia62 1 year ago
beautiful. greetings from Polish.
drobna32 1 year ago
Wonderful....great from poland.
drobna32 1 year ago
50/50 Irish & Scottish. Black, O'Lionaird and Casey are Irish; Kennedy, Matheson and MacDonald are Scottish. Alan MacD
could not sound more Scottish than he does here.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
iarla o lionaird what a voice..
ninodelbayble 1 year ago
Takes my breath away...
cgms310 2 years ago
Extraordinary & exhilarating. Many thanks for this posting.
Hark815 2 years ago 6
wow fabulous
Mary Black, Karen Matheson, Karan Casey...incredible
I did not know Mary Ann Kennedy before but I will be on the lookout
btex99 2 years ago
Does anyone know where I can find any other stuff performed by Allan MacDonald?
CluainSharoise 2 years ago
Type in Allan MacDonald on Youtube. You'll hear him piping
unclephil440 2 years ago
Ailean Dòmnallach has a few albums out if you feel like checking up on those - he sells them via his work at the National Piping Centre
liamcrouse 2 years ago
BRAW
JAKWIK 2 years ago
Very nice!
trainsmaniac2009 2 years ago
*and Brittany
[sorry]
ivannoveottouno 2 years ago 4
I'm not Irish but I felt like crying when I first heard this version of the song. It is moving, as European and human being, to hear Celtic language after all that Celtic culture has gone through!
See the look the singers have in their eyes when they sing this song... touching!
Long live Gaelic language and Celtic cultures in Wales, in Scotland, in Cornwall and Britain.
ivannoveottouno 2 years ago 48
@ivannoveottouno agus Éireann chomh maith a chara! :)
Bearnaidin 1 year ago
@ivannoveottouno What about Ireland, this is Irish after all!
culabula92 1 year ago
@culabula92 : you're perfectly right of course. What I meant to say was: Long live etc. etc. ALSO in Wales, in Cornwall, in Scotland and in Brittany. Since it is Irish Ireland was implicit. Sorry :-)
ivannoveottouno 1 year ago
@ivannoveottouno Don't forget the Isle of Man and Brittany.
owainmeurig 1 year ago
@ivannoveottouno
You are very enlightened. This music also makes me a bit misty.. and I now must learn the language of my ancestors.
freedumb2003 1 year ago
@ivannoveottouno
You mention the look in their eyes, but... it looks very much like they're all looking at the words somewhere behind the camera!
gaidheal1 1 year ago
@ivannoveottouno And northern France too!
culabula92 1 year ago
@ivannoveottouno
You forgot America.
35 Million Irish immigrants 3rd Generation or less (out of the 70 million ethnic irish abroad) 5 Million "scots irish" or ulster protestants, and another few million Scottish-Americans ... not Even getting into the millions of Welsh or British Americans. And that's just counting recent extraction, not those who assimilated and helped forge this new culture on a new continent.
vegsdraugr 1 year ago
@vegsdraugr
You forget Canada! The Scots/ Albannach Gaels settled in Canada, Nova Scotia in particular because USA was just too warm!
The Scots Gaels have a bizarre love of the cold!
DonegalRaymie201 1 year ago
@DonegalRaymie201 My forebearers were among those who settled in Nova Scotia. A number of years ago the international gathering of the clans was held in NS for ther first time outside Scotland. A local writer noted "I wish the chief of my clan would come to my home so I could throw him out!" LOL!
sgtcrab1 10 months ago
I really love this version of the song.
I think all of this great vocalists sound very better separatelly than all together...
mroc3911 2 years ago 3
aww youre a Mary Black fan as well as I am ;-)
joeygsmom 2 years ago