Uncail Bob (a Gaelic tribute to Bob Marley) - 'Bréag'

Formed in 1993, initially to raise money for local Irish language schools, Bréag have become one of the most refined and original of acts their kind Over the last decade, having performed as far a field as Sri Lanka, Bréag have developed a Celtic fusion never before heard The first generation of urban Gaelic speakers in modern Belfast, their Gaelic heritage permeates through their lyrics and music With Eastern European and Latin American traditional styles, branched with roots of reggae and ska, giving the listener (and inevitably the dancer) a unique musical experience


Belfast is unique in having the only genuinely urban Irish-speaking community anywhere on earth Eat your heart out, Dublin!


This is their splendid tribute to "Uncail Bob', better known, of course, as Bob Marley, one of the very best among the greats of 20th century music


The translation is my own so no guarantees but for me, accurate or not, it's magic all the way down...



Uncail Bob


Is maith is cuimhin liomsa

ar bhruach na páirce sin

An chóisir challánach chraiceáilte

punkae-reggae sin


('Tis well I remember

on the edge of that field

That noisy, crazy

punkae-reggae party)


Amhráin shaoirse

ag pléascadh ón hurdy gurdy cáite

Gach aon le chéile

ar bhruach na páirce sin

ag fanacht leis an monkey man


(Songs of freedom

bursting from the wind-swept hurdy gurdy

Everyone together

on the edge of that field

waiting for the monkey man)


Cé hiad nach iad na buachaillí bána

chomh sweet and dandy sin

Is iad nach iad

na puncanna gránna

ag éisteacht le hUncail Bob


(Who are they not they the white-haired boys

as sweet and dandy as that

They are they not they

the ugly punks

listening to Uncle Bob)


Ceol cnagach crua

na sráideanna sala sin

Buille binne bríomhar

na réabhlóide rasta sin


(The hard battering music

of those filthy streets

The lively lyrical beat

of that rasta revolution)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bob Marley
• Reggae
• Bréag
• Belfast
• Béal Feirste
• Gaeilge
• Irish
• Gaelic

[tromlui]

Seo é, coinnigí ár dteanga beo, GRMA as seo!

[muisire]

@tromlui

GRMA!

'Sea, beo, beomhar, briomhar, brea is ea ar dteanga spraoiuil cheolmhar - go maire si!

[tiagolavega16]

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