An Coulin agus An Tsean Coulin/Irish Air

Two beautiful airs played by two Derry musicians who play like two people with one mind. There is no-one plays Irish slow airs like Eugene o'Donnell possibly because of his classical training but I believe it is in his heart and in his blood, and no-one better to accompany him than James McCafferty. These men knew each other for nearly 50 years and the CD from which this video was made was recorded in four hours without rehearsal....! I took all the pictures in Donegal within 20 miles of Derry - except the picture of Eugene.

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Music

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• Coulin
• Irish
• air
• Eugene
• O.Donnell
• Fiddle
• traditional
• James
• McCafferty
• Maureen
• Hegarty
• folk
• world
• music

[ormepipes]

Summed up in one word - STUNNING.

[maureenderry]

@ormepipes Stunning is the word....Thank you for commenting.

[OrlaLxX]

thank you so much for putting this up, my grandad absolutely adores this air and hasn't heard it for years, he was thrilled when I found it for him :)

[maureenderry]

@OrlaLxX Yes it is beautiful but no one plays it quite like Eugene O'Donnell

[bronteburns]

Thanks for posting this! So Beautiful :)

[maureenderry]

@bronteburns Thankyou for commenting.

[mactcampbell]

@flanncada: Thank you for the info.

[flanncada]

@mactcampbell I gave up soeaking Irish when I escaped from the Christian Brothers many years ago (before someone 'standardised' it.) In Irish my understanding is 'An Chuilfionn' would be a young man with long fair hair (as in the original 16th Century song. 'An Chuilfionn' would be a girl as in the later folk song. Cul (back) and fionn (failr haired). In my limited knowledge - 'coolin' and 'cuilin' are anglicised. No doubt someone will put me right on this

[mactcampbell]

PS: Are there two airs here? I've only seen this rendition by Eugene referred to as "An Coulin"

[mactcampbell]

These two sound great as usual. There's another air that they do an excellent job on, I think it's in C major, called "The Foggy Dew"

[DaveLister43]

@ormepipes I agree. ....thank you for commenting.