by Irish Beo Author | Dec 1, 2010 | Ceol
‘Cailleach an Airgid’ Is amhrán bríomhar meidhreach é seo a bhfuil cúrfa leis. Is minic a chastar é nuair a thagann daoine le chéile. Tá sé faoi bhean a bhfuil go leor airgid aice agus go bhfuil daoine ag meastóireacht an bpósfaidh sí, nó nach bpósfaidh nó...
by Irish Beo Author | Nov 30, 2010 | Ceol
‘An Faoitín (‘Whiting’) Amhrán é seo ag moladh an Fhaoitín mar bhreac. Tá cur síos ar an tairbhe atá le baint as na h-aobha agus nach bhfuil a sárú le fáil le n-ithe. Is sean-amhrán é seo scríobhadh, is cosúil, nuair a bhíodh go leor iascach dá dhéanamh. This is...
by Irish Beo Author | Dec 2, 2009 | Ceol
‘Óró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile’ was orginally a 18th century Jacobite song known as Séarlas Óg (“Young Charles”) and referred to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the failed Scottish rebellion of 1745-6. Padraig Pearse provided new verses to it in the early...
by Irish Beo Author | Dec 2, 2009 | Ceol
‘Off to California’ is an example of a popular type of traditional dance music known as the ‘hornpipe’. This genre though had its origins in the English sailing vessels of the 16th century becoming popular across Britain and elsewhere from the...
by Irish Beo Author | Dec 2, 2009 | Ceol
Traditional music from the pupils of Scoil Sheosaimh Naofa in Woodford (An Ghráig) along the banks of the River Shannon in County Galway. The Kerry Polka is one of the most popular polkas played in Ireland
