Gaelic Song :The St Kildans Song (Oran na Hiortaich)

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/The-ballad-of-St-Kilda.4896756.jp

Minimalist approch this time round just to post this song. There is a video of some film taken some hundred years ago "A large rowing boat approaches the quay on the Island of St Kilda. Men on the quay watch the boat and throw down a line to tie up the boat. Dogs run around while the fishermen unload their fish. Landing on the Bird Rock, a man is seen swinging round a rocky crag on a rope, while below a small rowing boat bobs on the waves. Another man is seen climbing, with some difficulty, from the boat onto the rock face. Two men on rocky cliff path pose beside their snares and a small pile of birds. Fulmar Petrels are shown nesting on the cliff face and in flight wheeling round the rocks. A Fulmar is shown in its nest, a Fulmar chick on the ground. A title indicates that young fulmars are a staple diet of the St Kildans, and a bird 'snarer' is shown descending a cliff in search of the young birds. He is lowered down the cliff by rope and later holds a pole and snare with a bird attached by its wings; he shows it to the camera. A colony of guillemots and herring gulls are shown in the Bay of St. Kilda, both on the rocks and circling in the air." Greenpeace members would no doubt have an apoplectic fit, but that was how they lived! .

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[xotan]

Nlí dada cearr le do Ghaeilge-sa Uistman59 - Tá súil agam go dtuigeann tú Gaeilge na hÉireann

[UISTMAN59]

@xotan Go raibh maith agat. Tuigim cupla focal. :)

[ealaban]

it is more of a sin to stand back and allow a culture to die than to have a few cold eyes fall upon it. who knows, perhaps it will warm those cold eyes, God alone may judge. if you have the lyrics, please share them, otherwise you are aiding and abetting in the murder of a culture, and God has your number on that. Chan eil mi gu coma ma sinn a radh nam bheurla no nam ghaelig fein. Ghiaraidh mi as nam ceol. Cuir esan ann, ma s'e do thoil e. Tang. the Carmina is now online, look there

[UISTMAN59]

@ealaban De? Chan eil mi a tuigsinn de a tha thu feuchainn ri radh ann am Beurla neo ann an Gaidhlig. Tha mi caran dhe'n bheachd gu bheil thu ag iarradh orm na faclan a chuir suas dhut ach chan eil mi cinnteach. Is ann aig Dia fhein a tha fios caite an d'fhuair thu eolas air an Dia air a bheil thu a bruidhinn. Chan eil na faclan agam gu leir ach stocha gun dean mi oidhirp air an cuir suas uaireigin.

[DasHearach]

@UISTMAN59 Ach! Thor beagan uine do'n eala bhan. 'Se Gaidhlig Chanada a tha eichde! Tha i a feachainn! Chan eil e moran nas miosa ne mo Ghaidhlig fein.

[UISTMAN59]

@DasHearach Chan eil dad cearr air do Ghaidhligsa 'ille.

[RKHageman]

Any idea where to find the lyrics to this?

[drewcox010101]

catchy

[mungomunro1]

Great song!

I'd really appreciate the lyrics, if anyone's got the time.

[XAlphaKing7]

@MrJoshuaPadraig good ol' USA so idk

[XAlphaKing7]

@MarvellousMuffin awkward

[AnGillemor]

@UISTMAN59 That's typical of the National Trust for Scotland. They are a conservation mafia. As far as I know, persons over retirement age aren't allowed to visit St. Kilda either.

[MarvellousMuffin]

@XAlphaKing7

You do know that this is Scottish Gaelic though, right?

[MrJoshuaPadraig]

@XAlphaKing7

Dia duit mo chara.

If your from the UK or Éire then a company called Coláiste na nGael who work for the Irish government teach Gaeilge around the countries.

Slán

- Pádraig O'hÁinle

[XAlphaKing7]

i want to learn Irish Gaelic so bad