Clannad - Caisleáin Óir

Clannad are a Grammy Award-winning Irish musical group, from Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair), County Donegal. Their music has been variously described as bordering on folk and folk rock, Irish, and New Age. They are known for performing in various languages, including English, Latin, Gàidhlig, Mohican and most of all in their native tongue, Irish.

Clannad are Moya Brennan (born Máire Ní Bhraonáin), Ciarán Brennan (born Ciarán Ó Braonáin), Pól Brennan (born Pól Ó Braonáin), Noel Duggan (born Noel Ó Dúgáin) and Pádraig Duggan (born Pádraig Ó Dúgáin).

Clannad first made their mark in the folk and traditional scene in the 1970s in Ireland and Europe, they subsequently went on to bridge the gap between traditional celtic music and pop music in the 1980s and 1990s with albums such as Macalla and Anam. During their successful career they toured the world extensively and gained fans in every major territory. Lead singer Moya Brennan and her sister Enya have also enjoyed huge success as solo artists. The band won a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best New Age Album, and their record sales exceed the 15 million mark. They are also regarded as the band which, for the first time, put Irish traditional music and the Irish language on the world stage and paved the way for many other Irish artists.

After ten years disbanded, the five original members of Clannad reunited on stage at the Celtic Connections Festival in February 2007 in Glasgow. They expressed their wishes to release a new studio album, but no official announcements have been made as yet. Moya, Ciarán, Noel and Pádraig embarked on their first UK tour in over 10 years in the Spring of 2008, starting in Gateshead.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• irish
• music
• celtic
• new
• age
• gaelic
• gaeilge
• language
• gweedore

[Simes158]

Back in 1986 I was training to get into the Royal Marines and I spent a bit of time in the Brecon Beacons trying to get fit. I remember standing on a pitch dark track at midnight, looking at the black outline of Pen-y-Fan mountain against the night sky, whilst listening to this song on my mates car stereo.

I'll never shake that image from my mind. It was one of those moments when you realise just how special being alive can be...

[fosenda]

wow, welcome to my childhood :) It was a program on TV in USSR in 89 or 90... And in the beginning of that program always played this music :))))) I was fond of it really :)))

[10Serpent]

irish is alot older than hebrew, jews were never slaves, origin of egypt is ireland, the dynasties of egypt called ireland their home, scottland got its name from scotia, egyptian princess or queen,a pharaos daughter is buried in ireland, pharaoh first dynasty is buried in ireland, most of civilisation came from west,not east

migration from east happend later, agressive bloodthirsty empires came from desertmiddleeast.

jews were never slaves,stole the kaballah and the hebrew writing from egypt

[TheSadieCrush]

This has to be the most mystifying group ever but there music is so relaxing!

[IsCumaFut2]

@yosti2007 any song can be translated. this isi a style known as sean nos and yes it probably be sang in hebrew too... this is a a dialect of northern part of ireland which is differnt to southern irish. but it is irish langauge i am a teacher of the language..

[ThePhil909]

So mysterious this group clannad suppose thats y i dig them :)

[WolfShaman777]

Gorgeous, does not even begin to describe this song. A time trip for old souls, this "druidic" magic surely is our memory. Thank you so, so much.

[gebass6]

Go far,far out to the desert at night.Away from the city light pollution.Lay on the ground and look into the starry night sky.THIS is what you will feel/hear.

[marespand]

ive been feending for a smoke for the last 3 hours pretty bad (just went cold turkey ) an 30 secs into this vid all that was gone

[lunarotha]

2 stupid morans without a lifepath

[anonymous1219]

the irish/celtic are the faeries. even their tongue makes me think of faery rings and foggy nights. mystical music plays while the trees and streams dance in the moonlight.

[claustrophobic1234]

@kaemeleon wth?...are you talking about THIS language?..this is gaelic..as in irish...has nothing to do with rome and it has nothing to do with immigrants teaching your kid a different language o.O

i don't know wth you're talking about and i'm sure i'm not the only one...