He was my great grandad, my true inspiration for singing🥺🥺,I’m so sad that he is dead now tho,I hope he would be proud of me for my singing🙂

As a Maori woman I express my solidarity as my language almost had the same fate as Irish. This is a lovely song! Irish people should use Irish at every opportunity!

I like how in the final Curfa he uses the old Jacobite lyrics: "B'fhearr liom tú ná céad bó bhainne."

Whoever you are who so graciously posted this, I thank you. This version played as I walked to marry my Irishman. Funny story - we were in a courtroom in Waukegan, Illinois, being married by an Italian judge who just happened to know all the lyrics to this song and sang along. Imagine that! An Italian judge in America singing in Irish. He said it was one of his all-time favorite songs. How the Irish have touched the world!

The best version ever. Nostalgia's not what it used to be.

Don't let Gaeilge and all it's beauty die! Join the fight for Irish Identity and Recognition and keep the ancient culture alive! Learn the native tongue of our ancestors and pass it on to the next generation before it's too late.

I am Algerian, my father and his father fought for Algerian independence from France, I know what does it mean to sing without instruments for a great cause which is freeing the human souls from tyranny. Love to Ireland, brave land of good softened hearted Heroes, from Algeria, land of Berbers, sharing same feeling of freedom gain, lovers loss, Truth prevails, the oppressed will be victorious, Amine... Amene......

This song clearly displays our Irish spirit; to carry on regardless, despite war, famine, recession and the tough times we endure every day. We should destroy the negative thoughts and allow the positive ones to prosper. when you've music in you, you're hearing music always.

Lovely rendition in traditional style. Beautiful Connaught Irish from a native speaker. Listen to the pronunciation and mastery of this wonderful poetic Language. Don’t let it die. Use it so it echos through the nation ‘s cities, towns and countryside.

'May it please the Great God that we may see, Although we may not live a week after it Grainne Mhaol and a thousand warriors Dispersing the foreigners.' Damn does the idea of true freedom (like in this song) make my heart pound!

I´m Serbian born in Germany and I listen to all kind of Music since I can Remember. The Irish Folk is one of my Favs. I´ve startet with about 11 years to listen a Irish Folksinger with Guitar and his Voice ...sadly I cant remember his Name ; ( It was the Time of Cassettes an Walkman ;) and all the Way to Serbia (about 12h driving) my Walkman was runnin ,and every evening when I was going to sleep :) It was a magical Time and i´ll never stop listening to this poetic Music. Irish FTW

i am a second generation aussie, but used to hear my gran speaking and singing it. now when i hear music such as this i feel a strange pull towards it.

He sings with such honesty and beauty. It's a joy to see and hear a real singer, not some overproduced clanker. I've heard (and keep lyrics by my side while listening) many versions of this song and his pronunciation is different but his pronunciation seems much more authentic than some I've heard, indeed seeming to adhere more to the spelling of some of the words. Thanks for posting this great historical record.

magnifique interprétation de cette chanson irlandaise. De toute beauté. Les anciens étaient doués; C'est un trésor culturel.

Ahhh that old old sound. Nothing can beat it:)

Given that there was an active program to extinguish the Irish language, this song is every bit political - for the references, for the main message, and for the language choice.

The best version of this song. Sean Nos singing just gets better the more years and miles you have on you.

He remembers me my father. He was galego (from galicia, spain) and i always think that his "celtic heritage" was only a thing for theachers. i was wrong. he sungs in the same way of this man (but in spanish, and sometimes in galego). thanks for this video and sorry for my english.

Greetings from Uruguay. From a Irish descendant!.

Reminds me of Appalachian unaccompanied singing styles of the USA ... Obviously a relative of this beautiful ancient music ... Peace and blessings from New York

Sé do bheatha, a bhean ba léanmhar, Do b' é ár gcreach thú bheith i ngéibheann, Do dhúiche bhreá i seilbh méirleach, Is tú díolta leis na Gallaibh. Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile, Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile, Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh. Tá Gráinne Mhaol ag teacht thar sáile, Óglaigh armtha léi mar gharda, Gaeil iad féin is ní Frainc ná Spáinnigh, Is cuirfidh siad ruaig ar Ghallaibh. Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile, (x3) Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh. A bhuí le Rí na bhFeart go bhfeiceam, Mura mbeam beo ina dhiaidh ach seachtain, Gráinne Mhaol agus míle gaiscíoch, Ag fógairt fáin ar Ghallaibh. Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile, (x3) Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh. FacebookTwitterEmail Welcome oh woman who was so afflicted, It was our ruin that you were in bondage, Our fine land in the possession of thieves... And you sold to the foreigners! Oh-ro You're welcome home, Oh-ro You're welcome home, Oh-ro You're welcome home... Now that summer's coming! Gráinne O'Malley is coming over the sea, Armed warriors along with her as her guard, They're Irish themselves, not French nor Spanish, And they will rout the foreigners! Oh-ro You're welcome home (x3) Now that summer's coming! May it please the King of Miracles that we might see, Although we may live for a week once after, Gráinne Mhaol and a thousand warriors... Dispersing the foreigners! Oh-ro You're welcome home (x3) Now that summer's coming! songsinirish.com/oro-se-do-bheatha-bhaile-lyrics/

We must not allow our language, out heritage, the reason why our ancestors fought for our land to die. Na bi ag caint bearla, ach is gaeilge e do theanga

Please keep this alive, forever. Don't loose it, never.

This song always bring a smile to my face and a tear to my eye. Excellent version, this one.

God bless him and the Lord Jesus Christ

And if you drive into the mountains of Kentucky USA you can still hear this lonesome sound in the Mountian bluegrass music.

One of the first songs I learned at school.

Respect from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

Love this song by anyone but Darach gives it a real authenticity and humanity. I LOVE the way he sings this great song.

Amazing. Makes me think of a small rural house away in the west, waking up to the sweet, sweet scent of a fresh turf fire and the smell of cooking scones. Man, I'm so proud to be Irish listening to this.

I am just looking into my Irish heritage now, and this man's voice as he sings really inspires me to learn more. I want to learn our language. The Irish in my country were ashamed when they came here, so they renounced their culture and language and over the generations it has become lost. I grew up with no connection to it whatsoever. Thank god for us as Irish people all over the world still being able to still access records of where we are from, and see our culture, language, and country still in existence. Not everyone is so lucky. My friends and peers who are the descendants of African slaves would give anything to have a morcel of the information we have access to. Thank you for posting this, his voice is like a window into the souls of my ancestors long before they left Ireland. It's nothing like the modern adaptations from what I can tell with just listening. Research will tell me more. I'd like to know more about this man singing, his language, and this song. Thank you again, I feel so blessed to have come across this.

Love. This song!!!Respect from Bavaria

This is song awesome, so is the language. I wish I could speak it. People of Ireland you should be proud!

The wind that shakes the barley :)

Tradition. Remember it well from school in the 1950s.

LYRICS ’Sé do bheatha, a bhean ba léanmhar /Shay du vaha, ah van bah layn-wur/ Hail, oh woman, who was so afflicted, do bé ár gcreach tú bheith i ngéibhinn /duh bay awr grakh too veh ih ngay-vin/ It was our ruin that you were in chains, do dhúiche bhreá i seilbh meirleach /Duh ghoo-kheh vraw ih shell-iv mer-lukh/ Our fine land in the possession of thieves... 's tú díolta leis na Gallaibh. /stoo jeel-ta lesh nah Gawl-lee/ While you were sold to the foreigners! Chorus: Óró, 'sé do bheatha 'bhaile x3 /oh-roh shay duh vaha wol-ya/ anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh. /an-ish air hyokht on tow-ree/ Oh-ro, welcome home x3 Now that summer's coming! Tá Gráinne Mhaol ag teacht thar sáile /Taw Graw-nya Wayl egg chokht har sawl-ye/ Gráinne Mhaol is coming over the sea, óglaigh armtha léi mar gharda, /oh-glee orum-ha lay-he mor ghawr-da/ Armed warriors as her guard, Gaeil iad féin is ní Francaigh ná Spáinnigh /Gayl eed fayn snee Fron-kee naw Spaw-nee/ Only Gaels are they, not French nor Spanish... 's cuirfidh siad ruaig ar Ghallaibh. /skwer-ee sheed roog air Ghawl-ee/ and they will rout the foreigners! Chorus A bhuí le Rí na bhFeart go bhfeiceam /Ah vwee leh Ree na vart go vek-em/ May it please the King of Prodigy that we might see, muna mbeam beo ina dhiaidh ach seachtain /mun-ah mem byoh inn-ah yee-ah okh shokht-en/ Although we may live but one week after, Gráinne Mhaol agus míle gaiscíoch /Graw-nya Wayl o-guss mee-la gosh-kee-ukh/ Gráinne Mhaol and a thousand warriors... ag fógairt fáin ar Ghallaibh. /egg foh-gertch fawn air Ghawl-ee/ Dispersing the foreigners! Chorus

Seo go hálainn ar fad. Go raibh míle maith agat, a Dharaich!

one of the most beautiful things I've heard in my life.

Proud to be a celt

My brother in law is a high school teacher; he recently got his dual citizenship. Ireland and U.S.A. He is learning more Gallic,(sp) in traditional fashion. He also play's the pipes and is very determined to keep our heritage alive!!!

Great singing,,, Wonderful and true to the ancestor's of old....)))Cheer's from Australia

My favorite version of this well-known song. Keep the language alive...

Mighty stuff..I can't speak a word of Irish but I love this song...May we never forget where we came from

It is a good day to be irish..witan and,the dark one

although i do not understand a single word nearly makes me cry. great song, great singing full of emotion.

Just think....this man probably has memories of his father singing this song around the home when he was just a boy, and maybe sometimes he would join in the chorus himself....history lives...

And this is my absolute favorite rendition...

And I would like to say, that Ireland is the best country in the world. And the irish people are the friendliest in the world. I hope, my english is correct. :-S :-)

The magic of music : not your culture, not your language : but you just get it

Hail, oh woman, who was so afflicted, It was our ruin that you were in chains, Our fine land in the possession of thieves... While you were sold to the foreigners! Chorus: Oh-ro, welcome home Oh-ro, welcome home Oh-ro, welcome home Now that summer's coming! Gráinne Mhaol is coming over the sea, Armed warriors as her guard, Only Gaels are they, not French nor Spanish... and they will rout the foreigners! Chorus May it please the King of Prodigy that we might see, Although we may live but one week after, Gráinne Mhaol and a thousand warriors... Dispersing the foreigners!

So beautiful! Pure celtic!

This video is TOO SHORT! I keep replaying. This is my favorite version, then The Dubliners' version. ☘️♥️

I made the mistake of putting the subtitles on. Hysterical.

One of the only versions with proper irish pronunciation youll find on youtube

Absolutely spellbinding. Best version of that song I've ever heard. Grmma a chara

underbar. jag och min far körde denna med Sinead på repeat länge och väl vid en rastplats när vi hade 70 mil kvar till destinationen så bilbatteriet dog.

Lovely tune & language. Sublimeee poetry!!! Its a fine thing that there's hundreds, perhaps a few thousand, of traditional Irish Stepdance schools, in the States! Irish music makes one want to get up and dance! (Chauvanistic:) Best folk music: the Irish, the Greeks, the Jews!

Beautiful God given lovely voice! superb,

this really is amazing...young poeple need to see this. Its almost like looking back in time...if your Irish (speaking for americans) this is what your great grandparents used to hear at the pub ...wish i was there...great stuff!

This man looks like he could tell you about his neighbor's sheep dog for hours.

Sério, isto é espetacular!

His voice is so good. Love the Irish language and Ireland 🍀

Beautiful song!

That's one oldschool jam session!

I have heard that song done by many and all good, by the way the words roll off his tong. The best I have heard to-date. Thumbs up!

Maximum respect for the Irish folk and heimritshe from Catalonia. If you speak a minor language, don't let it die!

As a Presbyterian I find no qualm with this tune. Foregone is foregone... The Jacobite's knew how to find true beauty in music... God bless em' síocháin

Tá bród orm gur Gaeilge as Éirinn mé agus an teanga speisialta seo a labhairt !

This version is magic!

This version really conveys the sadness of the song

There's something about this song that incites the fires of liberation and rebellion in the celtic heart.

I'm not Irish but this song makes me wanna cry.. 😭

He made a solo CD that's available on Shanachie records, maybe Gael-Linn originally, if you're not in the states. Also, he did some singing on Sean O Riada's Reacaireacht An Riadaigh in the early 60s.

Stunning

Love it......................my people

Love it,i am from Germany but i am feeling Gaelic!!

thats a great Version of this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Beautiful song... beautiful language...

beutiful listning to this kind of stuff makes me so proud to be from such a small country with a huge heart! altho people are turning all this away :'(

As an American with zero Irish in me I'm proud to be learning Irish as part of my Civil War hobby. I joined an Irish and much of what we do is in Irish Gaelic, including some of the songs we sing in camp.

absoulutly beautiful

i love this, sounds awesome x

It's a great CD, but for the interpretation of the song, this is absolutely his best!

@TheMightOfTheEnglish the british empire like all empires are just a spec on the vast history of time........its how we approach the future that is important imo

The reason I like this song so much is because it's wishful thinking put to lyrics. It's so sad and beautiful and happy all at the same time.

I've loved this video for years and here i am again

What a song, what a man. Amazing

Go Go Ireland Go. Tiocfaídh ar la. From Italy

Yes. Gráinne Mhaol is the pirate AKA, "The Sea Queen Of Connaught." This song refers to the Irish soldiers that were in Europe, and the hope that they would restore Ireland to her native people. This was the rallying call to the Irish in America(as well as Ireland) as Patrick Pearse led the 1916 easter sunday uprising against the British. Native Irish feel free to tell the tale, for I am only a fifth generation Irish descendant in America, and have no room to speak.

Beautiful. Tabhair grá go deo Éireannach! Caith do shaol gan eagla. I'm Irish, and Dannyboy is correct. We are the most resilient, toughest people. Our culture has been through much heart ache, sorrow... and yet we continue on with growth and pride! Be proud of who you are and where you come from, no matter if it be German, Russian, black, white or purple. Stand up for yourself and show respect to history.

@TheMightOfTheEnglish Might of the english. I remember you from months back. glad to see your love of irish music and all things gaelic continues unabated. Enjoy this great gael calling gráinne back!!

This man made me learning Irish. ☘️

The melody is certainly old, but the words to the above are Pádraig Pearse's... because he wrote them, just a few years before he was killed. The references to the historical figure Gráinne Mhaol are intentionally metaphoric, by Pearse, representing Ireland herself, as was commonly done in the day (like the Sean Bhean Bhocht, and other such songs).

you can really hear the difference in how a native speaker and someone who learned the language sings this one...

Beautiful! I'm going to learn this now!

Listening to this on St Pat's 2016. Truly, this rendition is a drop of the pure.

As an american who has largely irish ancestry, keep your culture alive for as long as you possibly can. American culture or the lack thereof is a prime example of what happens when you don't.

i luv his voice it makes the sng mre beautiful

ó, an GUTH atá ag an bhfear seo... Cuireann sé náire ar m'iarrachtaí féin an t-amhrán seo a chanadh! Ach measaim gurb é an rud atá is tábhachtach ná go bhfuilim ag iarracht. Tá súil agam go mbeidh _leath_ an álainn atá ag guth Darach Ó Catháin agam féin, lá éigin amach anseo.

Great song, the tune was from an old Scottish Jacobite song with new lyrics from Padraig Pearse .