Sean Nós Singing

Eleanór a Rún sung by Róisín El Safty at the Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay. The love song Eleanor a Run (Eleanor my secret love) is unusual in that it is in the form of a dialogue. It was composed in the sixteenth century but became attributed to the early seventeenth century harper Cearbhal Ua Dalaigh because of his love poems to Eleanor Cavanagh, daughter of Sir Morgen Cavanagh of Clonmullen Castle, Co. Carlow. The melody of the song was included in Charles Coffey's opera The Beggar's Wedding in 1728 and Edward Bunting published a variant of the air in his A General Collection of Ancient Irish Music (1796) which he collected from the harper Denis Hempson..

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Music

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• Sean
• Nos
• Ballad
• Gaelic
• Irish
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[pangur920]

Ar dóigh. Tá sí eisctithe agam níl fhios agam cé mhéid uaire agus bíonn i gcónaí meanghaire ar m'aghaidh agus mé ag éisteacht léithe.

[bruceleeC64]

Some people find it difficult to listen to sean nos, not this though...divine

[Taurus2190]

I love the atmosphere of celtic music!

[McWeasleyTwins]

The way she draws out Eleanor's name is unspeakably beautiful. I'd slit my own throat to sing like that.

[seekingoz]

Wow! What a knockout! Beautiful singer. Brava!

[celt1745]

Maith go leoir, a chara! Ta se an fior-bhlas!

[usarugbyfan88]

Chan sí go hiontach ar fad é! She sang it wonderfully!

[NadarCosainAmber]

Would anyone happen to know if there is a sean-nos lyric database or book somewhere? Tis hard to learn without seeing the words! Thanks!

[MrJohnFODonnell]

I could listen to this all night she has great feeling for the song . You can't buy that and it's very rare in modern music .

[MarthaH605]

She has a lovely voice. I wish I knew what she's singing.

[ruth2134]

amazing singing

[musictraditionswales]

Fabulous, fabulous singing