Gaelic show about Cape from 70's

this is a very old show called Se' Ceap Breatainn Tir Mo Graidh which was prodiced by scottish television about Gaelic in Cape Breton. It is the only footage I've ever seen of Joe Neil MacNeil and other old timers. This segment features Maxie MacNeil and his daughters as well as a Gaelic mass in Glendale. Its a rough copy.

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Music

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• cape
• breton
• Gaelic

[AindriasHiort]

The children are singing Òran do Cheap Breatuinn ('S e Cheap Breatuinn...). The men (men do it in CB, but not in Scotland) are beating wool, not nets, to shrink it (trad. soaked in stale urine) and are singing a milling song "Ho Ro 'S Toigh Leam-Fhìn Thu" as bb3ca201 mentions. It's actually not a milling song, but a love song. They're just cramming it into a regular metre to go with their work. It's quite beautiful when sung as a song.

[wqpeb]

What is the meaning of the song that accompanies the to and fro motion on the table?

Was this the way that fishing nets were worked to clean/ soften them up back in the days of the brave fishermen?

Thanks.

[GillyWhitfootHaysend]

I would be able to look for the lyrics if I knew the title of the song...

[bb3ca201]

The lyrics are available. I'm sure that, if you Google the titles, you'll come up with the lyrics. Good luck, mo charaid

[bb3ca201]

Very well said, mo chara

[bb3ca201]

Uabhasach éibhinn a dh'éisdeachd nam fear a' seinn an òrain "Ho Ro 'S Toigh Leam-Fhìn Thu"; b'àbhaist dha na cailleagan a dhéanamh...

[alejandromatheson]

the children's choir:

'S e Cheap Breatainn tìr mo ghràidh, Tìr nan craobh, 's nam beanntan àrd';  'S e Ceap Breatainn tìr mo gràidh, Tìr is àillidh leinn air thalamh.

Chan urrainn dhomh-sa leth dhuibh ìnns', Na tha mhaisealachd 's an tìr; Stadaidh mi bho'n tha mi sgith, Beannachd leibh, is oidhche mhath leibh

[odaimhin]

Labhair i agus mairfidh i.

[GillyWhitfootHaysend]

I badly want to know the lyrics to the song that the family sings...I know the two milling songs are Ho Ro 'S Toigh Leam Fhin Thu and Dh'olainn Deoch A Laimh Mo Run.

[bigmonsterlove]

an-suimiúil ar fad! An bhfuil físean le fáil le gaeilge as Talamh an Éisc (Newfoundland)?