Caoineadh cu Chulainn

[CassandraDidoMedea]

I just finished reading a novel about Cuchulain, and I love this song. Beautiful!!

[youngchampagne]

Your video is a favorite on Trinidad and Tobago

[jamseylad1]

It is The Crying of Chulainn... and is indeed ment to be about when he killed his son......and as regards to the silly little comments...ignore only a childs comments or someone with the IQ of a turd

[prog4evr]

BEST song off of the Riverdance soundtrack - such extreme raw emotion...

[gmac072]

Thank you voldemortsnipple7019! Where do they come from?

[voldemortsnipple7019]

marv126p thats 100 points over ur IQ rating..

[gmac072]

@/marv126p  Not hard to find someone with your intelligence these days, sad to say.

[marv126p]

it translates to i want to fuck you right up the clamfish

[SuperSquirrl01]

really beautiful, thanks!

[fleetwoodmacable]

Dear Youtube, why is there no "Love unconditionally" button on this video?

[gmac072]

Smart arse.

[marv126p]

i can sware i played this tune with my arse after that curry

[sk002]

Great

[llenbridges11a]

Your video is a favorite on Bhutan

[mikeysrose]

2:36 - Eilean Donan Castle in the Scottish Highlands!!! Lovely place. I got flashed there last May by a gent in a kilt.

[truefalse]

Why is all the pictures of Scotland, and trying to steal the credit as Ireland?

[gemvgem]

beautiful.... =)

[3Slim3Shady3]

i gotta ask my nanna for some books on Irish Folklore i really wanna know know more about my heritage, i do know that i am descendent from Brian Boru high king of Ireland, he fought the Vikings in a large battle just near Dublin he won the battle and went to the top of a hill where he prayed to god for his victory where a routing viking came across him and killed him.

[youmendemwebendem]

you wont find this on x factor

[djleesus09]

fuck i hate loyalists i got bate by 5 men with baseball bats because i say im irish? scumbags TAL

[djleesus09]

free the six counties in ulster ,ulster was the most gaelic part of ireland they brought the gaelic laguage to scotland and religion to scotland and england

[Awesomeman5870]

ceol álainn



[TheDanzigQueen]

hooo this song is so beautiful and the text is so touching. Makes me want to go back to the past

Thanks for share:)

[JAT763]

it's a beautiful lament for such a tragic story. to be honest I'm a grown man and it damn near brings tears to my eyes. It reminds me of when I was on leave before a deployment and hanging out with my dad on my last day of leave...

[Kermi74]

This is my Dream from Music Thank you 

[m0j084]

Thankyou.

[DairDubh]

Actually, this lament is FOR Cuchulainn after his death. Not by him for his son's death.

[SandraMarlowe]

Beautiful work . . . mournful in a meaningful way. Lament, a lost term . . .

[upfromunder]

Without question, "the long morning" is the most reassuring description of death I've ever heard. thank you

[kiwi5796]

The haunting heartbreaking  keening cries for one gone and brings tears to even the casual observer.

[stephennbwaldron]

Thanks for this Ian. I've been a Davy Spillane fan for 20+ years and seen him in concert in Greenwich once. I have this on CD.

[Kermi74]

wow thanks thanks thanks

[susan2227]

to my dear son who died of sudden heart failure at 38. we will meet again laddie. love mom

[Valhain]

The pipes can be one of the most haunting sound or joyous sounds one can ever hear. i can't remember a time when they havent given me chills or make me want to get up and dance

[ArdaeEdhellen]

Tears in my eyes. Aye, tears in my eyes.

[mrsfrodo9]

For everybody who love's this ,listen to Finbar Fury's The Lonesome Boatman ,I'm sure you gonna love it

[kenhughes]

this makes the hair on my neck stand on end,but i love it,part of my roots i suppose.

[saoirse2011]

BTW, people should treat with extreme caution any material about Irish related matters (pertaining to political,social and religious matters) taken from WIKI,there is an insidious campaign been conducted by unionist revisionists to infect Wiki with spurious articles and biased narratives with questionable sources.

[saoirse2011]

The uilleann pipes derive from the great Irish warpipes which were the forerunner of todays highland bagpipe, the uilleann pipes were first developed approx 1780,but the origins of the name are disputed.The first reputable illustration of bagpipes in Britain and Ireland date to the 1580's when Irish warriors are depicted playing bagpipes in contemporaneous illustrations by the english illustrator John Derrick.

[celticbattleaxe]

Oh, flower of Scotland,

When will we see your like again ...

[celticbattleaxe]

@AlanJDukes The uilleann pipes

[ferontime]

@mtthwpowers that's a realy das story, but a realy good song, Thank you for the info!!!

[gmac072]

Uilleann Pipes. Irish instrument.

[Calengela]

@gmac072 Erm no, the Uilleann pipes are a remake of Scottish Pipes, they were made by an Englishman in the 1880's, he took Scottish bagpipes and made a softer variation of them from it's original fierce Scottish sounding one, they were called 'Union pipes', it was later adopted by Irish republicans in the early 1900's to aid the Irish independence movement and try to promote Ireland as distinct, so they adopted Scottish identities like the Pipes and Tartans and dropped the original Irish flutes.

[MegaFighter32]

@gmac072 bit late,but what do you think!

[704macleod]

O, revrbjs, how well you articulated my dumb ache that this lament brings me

[ferontime]

sorry but, someone knows whats mean "Caoineadh cu Chulainn"

its gaelic right??

[SauceBau5]

@ferontime Cu Chulainns lament or lament of cu chulainn. somewhere along those lines

[gmac072]

@ferontime It translates as Cu Chulainn's Lament.

Cu Chulainn was the mighty warrior of ancient Ireland, and through mistaken identity killed his own son with his fiercest weapon, the dreadful Gae Bolg. These words, this lament, seem to me like the ancient mourning call of CuChulainn come to the modern day.

mtthwpowers 1 month ago

@mtthwpowers

[feonawillow]

Caoineadh cu Chulainn=Cu Chulainn crying in Irish

[LiamOMoloney]

it means the cry of cu chulainn

could be a battle cry or his tears



[fibbling]

@ferontime it is pronounced like "koo hullin"

[AyeYirMa]

@ferontime It's Cú Chulainn, it can mean tears or crying but in this interpretation it means Cú Chulainn's Lament

[ScottishFiddleLesson]

this is amazing playing!

[magisterludi92103a]

Ain't much more written in word or music that takes us to Death's doorstep, now is there??????

[devastater98]

TYPE IN BRAVE HEART FIRST BATTLE AND PLAY WITH THIS ON I NO THERE SCOTTISH PEOPLE BUT IMAG

INE THER IRISH

[Calengela]

@devastater98 Well you shouldn't because Irish people are not Scottish at all, nor vice versa.

Braveheart is about Scotland, not Ireland.

[Camfish0]

@It's true, this tune turns longing and loss, passion and pain, love and grief into purest sound. 'Tis love and poetry expressed by one soul and an amazing, ancient, mysterious instrument. Your words do this sound justice. Thanks for all of it.

[gmac072]

@Camfish0 Thank you Camfish. Your comments are kind beyond measure. Your sentence, " Tis love and poetry....." strikes me as being utterly true. This instrument, these words, and the incredible music could only have come from one ancient soul. And you and I have the privilege of hearing it come all together. Who could ask for more?

[Caomhanach1]

I am left speechless everytime I hear this.

[MrCelt42]

This really is one soulfull piece of music, I think one of his best pieces on youtube is "May morning Dew" played with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. It's a beautiful piece. I think davy is an ancient celtic alien.

[devastater98]

this song makes me proud to be irish

[Jazzy459]

@devastater98 Agreed :D

[djleesus09]

@devastater98 pitty more didn't feel like u most free staters hate the north ulster was the most gaelic part of ireland loyalists make me sick i got bate with baseball bats 2 weeks ago because i say im irish , makes me wanna kill kill kill, but this music just makes me wanna chill brought a tear to my eye..

[revrbsj]

I do not believe in past lives. But if I did, I would swear that I was Irish and heartbroken and sentimental and proud, for this music and these pipes enchant my soul to wonder. An aching longing for home overtakes me-not the place of my birth, but something eternal, that which remains veiled and ethereal, like the chasing of a dream that fades in morning's bright day. These pipes reamins me that God is, and that at the end of this sojourn, aching will turn to resting and longing to peace.

[gmac072]

@revrbsj Oh, you are so right my friend. This stuff is made of the eternal.

[Crazy8sNYK]

@revrbsj The Celts were apart from any modern day god. Theirs/ours were contrived of an anthropamorphic take upon nature's wonders. And though you put the sentient air to it so eloquently, those forces, the life givers, are all that we have and will know, or will ever be a part of.

Truly, 1 life, 1 love.

[shewolf51]

@revrbsj I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to save your comment in a word document because it has to be one of the most beautiful that I have ever read. It helps that I absolutely agree that it gives a sense of wanting to return home, even if one has never set eyes on the place that their heart longs to go to.

[CUERVOLUMINOSO]

@shewolf51 That place, that heaven, is called Sach Khand; the fifth inner world from where every single soul descended, into the dross of the Mind, as an angel, aeons ago. - Yet whose beauty can never ever be forgotten. and is reflected into everything beautiful in our ephemeral existence here on Earth.

[shewolf51]

@CUERVOLUMINOSO Wow, that sounds beautiful. Is Sach Khand from the Sikhism religion?

[Akaebr]

@revrbsj amazing how i feel the same way. theres no irish/scottish and bagpipe tradition where i was born, but this kind of music/instrument "dazes" me like none.

[LocustaVampa]

@revrbsj i love u

[SpawtAwnProductions]

Cu Chulainn - The Hound of Ulster!

[Stifler189]

That will do pig that will do.

[mtthwpowers]

It translates as Cu Chulainn's Lament.

Cu Chulainn was the mighty warrior of ancient Ireland, and through mistaken identity killed his own son with his fiercest weapon, the dreadful Gae Bolg. These words, this lament, seem to me like the ancient mourning call of CuChulainn come to the modern day.

[DruidoftheBlackSun]

@mtthwpowers

I can only imagine the depths of his grief :( To lose your own flesh and blood is one thing, but to take their life yourself would be...horrible. Just too horrible to think of. Poor CúChulainn...and poor Conlaoch :(

[mtthwpowers]

@DruidoftheBlackSun

Aye, a lot of people think CuChulainn is a story of Irish independance. But it seems to me more a story of love lost, and found. To think he would also go on to have to slay his foster-brother and foster-father in war. It is just too horrible to think of. Yet, it remains one of the most enduring legends of our time.

[DruidoftheBlackSun]

@mtthwpowers

I know. I read the story, and I swear I cried when he had to kill Ferdiad. CúChulainn was a great hero, yet his life was marred by tragedy at every turn. If I could have one wish, it would be to have Ireland always united. From the time of the kingdoms of Ulster and Connacht to now.

[chichibooty1]

Beautiful thoughts! Thanks for the setiments!!!

[Thebluebridgetroll]

What does the title translate to?

[DruidoftheBlackSun]

@Thebluebridgetroll

Roughly it's "CúChulainn's Lament"

[TheRecommended]

Such a shame that he has had most versions of this taken down, I really can't see how the international exposure of Youtube can be a bad thing, especially for such a great tune.

[brunoscumbag]

this tune is going to be played at my funeral what a tune very emotional,stevo

[iluvGAA]

I'm listening to this over and over again...

[pipergirl12]

Very nice video, but I'd like to piont out that this is a purely Irish song not scottish. I know it dosent matter, I love Scotland, this piece played by Irish Uileann pipes as opposed to Scottish bag pipes.

[semanray]

Nazareth has been using this beautiful song in the begginning of their concerts for some time now!!brilliant

[Furui2009]

The music sounds as if it came from heaven, and Ireland seems to me a place blessed by God and the faeries.

[chickflickaddict91]

@Furui2009 i understand the blessed by God bit (being Irish i may be a bit biased tho!)... but by the Faeries???

[OrAnOxBaRaToNeZ]

Theres only one thing worse than being Irish,and thats not being Irish...

[Sedalb]

@OrAnOxBaRaToNeZ There's only one thing worse then not being Irish... and that's being English

[IRAprovos]

This is an Irish lament

[PaganCount]

I am watching this in 2.15 in the morning while drinking greenmore single malt 8 years old and smoking... thank you Ireland.... Greetings from Greece

[trini4eva09]

god this song gives me goosebumps, so awesome, full of heart and soul!

[neilpendo]

Aaahh, Mr Mackenzie, you made me sob...

[colmkila]

check out the Cú Chualainn? vid also - very funky & cute!!

[Scar1934]

Haunting spiritual music from the Celtic ancestral soul that speaks across time directly to our soul and spirit. Our soul cry tears and our spirit spreads wings to soar to new divine heights of enlightenment and understanding all at the same time.

The language of the soul which breaches the great mystery to speak the unspeakable and understand the incomprehensible that which words can not express.

From the Celts this is truly a great gift of spiritual story telling to us all. Blissful.

[Cathye3]

This song is always so beautiful ,,, it gives me goose bumps all over.

[SoulTitan2012]

this brings a tears to my eyes due to how Ireland suffered through the years i hope there will be peace in Ireland i thank u

[sherrillwallace]

Hauntingly beautiful.

[Arjakszatrija]

A masterpiece, this is all to say about this

[TheChaz1745]

This tune has always brought a tear tae ma eye.

But watching this, with the addition of those fine words.....even more so.

Thank you for posting this.

[gmac072]

@TheChaz1745 And thank you Chaz for your fine words!

[snoozezilla]

Tere are only two things that makes me cry...

This song and the movie Black hawk down...

This song is so full of emotion

Its epic!

[peterreina01]

Words Don't Describe My Feelings When I hear this music.

[libralady24]

I am tearing up while listening to this song... my goodness, it is beautiful :) I especially like that Eilean Donan castle is in the video

[southernpiper1]

I am asking about the words. I have seen Eilean Donan and if the park in your video is Princess St, I ate a breakfast sandwich there my last day in Scotland in 07. As I play at funerals of friends and for the families of strangers I think of my days and of those dear to me that have passed and of the times I could have spent with them.

Your words struck a chord with me. Thank you.. Do you have other writings?

[gmac072]

@southernpiper1 Yes, it is Princess St.. The words struck a chord with me also. I take no credit for them because they seemed to come out of nowhere. The effect they have on me is exactly as you expressed above; "I think of my days and of those dear to me ...." They suggest the following; I think of my days of those who are dear, of those I should see of those who are here And for those who've gone over whose time I misspent In the heart of this lover rings sorrows lament. Thank you

[crudometal]

@southernpiper1

i think it is Bill Whelan for riverdance but i'm not sure.

[ramonster163]

Good, thanks for uploading this. The previous version of this song (HQ) was removed from Youtube. Good thing I finally found another HQ version.

Thanks again.

[southernpiper1]

Who is the author of the lament?

[gmac072]

@southernpiper1If by "author" you mean who composed the music, I don't know. I've assumed it was traditional and has come down through the ages. If you are asking who wrote the words that accompany the video, I would be the guilty party.

Guy MacKenzie

[thethinking1]

found it again....

this music goes directly to my very soul

cant fully explain, but it absolutely overwhelms me each time i hear it...tears and emotion, sadness yet hope...

wore out the riverdance tape someone borrowed me once i got to this...wept mate, like i'd lost someone...welling up now, wtf!

[gmac072]

@thethinking1 It's probably true that when you can't 'fully explain' something you are getting close to truth. ("The Tao that can be told is not the Tao --Lao Tzu). So what is the truth, mate? Who do you think you have lost?

[seanagh92]

Me too!!! I went to riverdance with my mam and started crying when this was played! It's sooo sad!!!!

[deeteenh]

When those of us have experienced our hearts torn in half we try to find something good out of it rather than it all being sad. The good in this is being able to share such a sweet sound for others to enjoy and touch their hearts.

[gmac072]

Amen!

[zadok23]

I've not heard much Irish Music before but I must say this is one of the most incredible that I've heard thus far

[Chess79]

Well I just love Irish/scottish music, so I was just searching on youtube:) This song gives me so much feelings..sad & good:)

[Chess79]

I LOVE this song :)

[gmac072]

@Chess79

Me too!

[gmac072]

@gmac072

How did you come across this song, Chess 79?

[bronxbebe]

My mother and I went to see Riverdance about 4 to 5 years ago, and when this song played, I burst into tears. One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Ever.

[NiallatUTube]

@bronxbebe it makes grown hairy bearded men cry too!

[NiallatUTube]

@bronxbebe crying here...

[SilentNight700]

"I will not just sing for myself but for all who have and will ever come to the trial of having their hearts broken in half and torn apart ...For there are no accepted words in any language that can express the living pain therefore I will sing new words ...Words from the language of a broken heart that only a broken heart itself can bring forth and speak ...Which is I"

W.

[gmac072]

Well said, W. (or should i say, "Well not said"?)

[SilentNight700]

" ...Well put : ) "

[bobanddavid90]

This is so gorgeous. I can't stop listening to it.

[trancebynature2]

this is very beutifull...

[SilentNight700]

" ...As the sad story goes...Love will once again deceive me..."

[gmac072]

I may be deceived once again,

yet still I go to that stone on the point by the lake waiting to hear the whisper of footsteps. "Nay, laddie, it's not love that deceives but the wicked empty heart that loses it's truth and shatters its icy shell again and again and again, to awaken no more in the place we had come to know."

It's the voice repeating, "It is gone, it is gone", that deceives.

[SilentNight700]

"Aye ...But it is Love who is crafty ...sneaking up on you with the feeling of truth and warmth ...making you expect to be met with high hopes only to find that the bridge doesn't lead to the other side ...but leaves you stranded in mid-air ...with no warning that it was going to be so... Love has the power to be evil ...because it shows no remorse..."

[gmac072]

Not so, dear friend, it is us who are crafty. And love has no power at all prefering to yield in all matters. Thereby does it remain pure, invincible.

[SilentNight700]

"Pure and invincible it is ...But this about Love having no power? ...Then how do you explain the unwanted feeling of longing for someone who has no desire to long for you? And how do you explain the constant fight to not make the same mistake as if it is not in your control? The explanation is Love itself... Do not be fooled ...Love is well alive and exists on its own ...But I don't blame your confusion mate ...Even I once trusted the most righteous reputation that is known ...Who is Love"

[gmac072]

Perhaps it is so. Thank you for your valuable insights and precious time shared.

G.

[SilentNight700]

"It was my sincere pleasure my good-man ...Take care."

W.

[usfenderfsdlx]

the castle shown from 2:34 to about 2:50 -- where exactly is that?! it's beautiful! and the castle right after it?

[gmac072]

The name of the castle is Eilean Donan. It is located on the western coast of Scotland near the isle of Skye

[bill416718]

Nice job on the Video

[gmac072]

Thank you, Bill

[PubliusQuinctilius]

great !