Yes my cousin Sarah. Her sister used to sing as well nan bless em

Rich Gouette It is no wonder: the song is beautiful and this rendition is utterly riveting, captivating, addictive. Each time you listen, you hear something else...

no, it means your mighty heart and soul are alive and feeling emotion

I am delighted to hear others feel the same

Yes, but also taste!

@@seandegidon4672 I'll take it!

nuh uh this song isnt beautiful nor haunting unfortunately

@@christopherfretson5114 I think it may be nicer if you stated… in your opinion, as surely you are not saying your view carries more weight than anyone elses? You are free to have you opinion as I am free to have mine..l the glory of being human

@@christopherfretson5114 thank you for your comment as I hadn’t listened to this rendition of this song for some time. As it’s a song of my family’s homeland in the language that they and many struggled and continue to struggle to keep alive it’s beauty may not be apparent to those who don’t know the background to it. It remains to me a beautiful and haunting song an opinion that’s mine and my family’s .

my opoligies sir

@@christopherfretson5114 it they are meant in the right way I of course take this and do not mean offence . As you may gather this song has more resonance than perhaps a simple listen might provide .

Gringo Mex , Tá failte romhat go dti an Teanga álainn Gaeilge

There is no singing like Connemara singing - different sound to anyone else - spectacular

Thank you!!

Thank you for posting the lyrics Fergus there as powerful as her singing

go raibh mile maith agat, a Fhergus

Is that mannion from carna way

There's a pub there called mannion

Hey Brendan.Lovely to hear from you. Its Sorcha bean Ui chonaoila. Our dear friend Brian o' Rourke compiled the Album 'Blas Meala during the eighties. I made the video on a family walk one day up at Boluisce Lake near Spiddal.This is the most beautiful version of this song I've heard. We will be uploading more from the album soon. Beannachtai o Cholm.

Hey Colm, I would love to have a digital copy of that tape! Can't find it anywhere... please email if you read this michaelculmeseymour@gmail.com. thanks!

Seanie Murphy Some useful info: These two pieces of info corroborate each other: 1) www.sott.net/article/263587-DNA-shows-Irish-people-have-more-complex-origins-than-previously-thought 2) ".....A PhD student in Trinity’s department of genetics, McEvoy will present the findings tomorrow at the Irish Society of Human Genetics annual meeting. He and Dan Bradley of TCD took samples of mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited from the mother, from 200 volunteers around Ireland using cheek swabs. They also compiled a database of more than 8,500 individuals from around Europe and analysed them for similarities and matches in the sequences. They found most of the Irish samples matched with those around Britain and the Pyrenees in Spain. There were some matches in Scandinavia and parts of northern Africa. “Of the Celtic regions, by far the strongest correspondence is with Scotland,” said Bradley. “It corresponds exactly with language.” While that could be due to the Plantation of Ulster, Bradley said it was more likely due to something much older because the matches occur throughout the whole of Ireland and not just the north. The geneticists produced a map of Europe with contours linking places that were genetically similar. One contour goes around the edge of the Atlantic, around Wales, Scotland, Ireland and includes Galicia in Spain and the Basque region. "

Seanie Murphy While there is some veracity to what you say, I'd advise you to be wary of internet based information. Incidentally, the majority of languages spoken in Europe and North America have Indus Valley origins,not just Irish ,or Gaelic ,in the broader meaning. Is mise,Píaras

You have got that right, I often get that connection when I listen to music and songs from way back in time from those countries.

rich gouette lol, I've done this with other songs. I look at the views and think "Well, at LEAST 300 of those are me". ☺

Good on you.

Sarah Griallais

+alphasun1 If I were three leagues out at sea or on mountains far from home,Without any living thing near me but the green fern and the heather, The snow being blown down on me, and the wind snatching it off again, And I were to be talking to my fair Taimín and I would not find the night long.Dear Virgin Mary, what will I do, this winter is coming on cold. And, dear Virgin Mary, what will this house do and all that are in it? Wasn’t it young, my darling, that you went, during a grand time, At a time when the cuckoo was playing a tune and every green leaf was growing?If I have my children home with me the night that I will die, They will wake me in mighty style three nights and three days; There will be fine clay pipes and kegs that are full, And there will be three mountainy women to keen me when I’m laid out.And cut my coffin out for me, from the choicest brightest boards; And if Seán Hynes is in Muínis, let it be made by his hand. Let my cap and my ribbon be inside in it, and be placed stylishly on my head, And Big Paudeen will take me to Muínis for rough will be the day.And as I go west by Inse Ghainimh, let the flag be on the mast. Oh, do not bury me in Leitir Calaidh, for it’s not where my people are, But bring me west to Muínis, to the place where I will be mourned aloud; The lights will be on the dunes, and I will not be lonely there.

Lance Fallin ss