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Thread #142946 Message #3297717
Posted By: maeve
28-Jan-12 - 06:08 AM
Thread Name: Sean Og O Tuama
Subject: RE: Sean Og O Tuama
Any connection? Eamonn De Barra, Seán Óg Ó Tuama...
Mary O'Hara "learnt many of the songs...from Sean Og O'Tuam
http://www.gourd.com/Mary McLaughlinGaelicChristlinernotesgm.html
"8. Suantraí Na Maighdine (sooantree na majina) "The Virgin's Lullaby"
Seán Óg Ó Tuama was a contemporary Irish songwriter and singer who passed in the early 1980s. He wrote many beautiful Christmas hymns in the Irish language, this being my personal favourite. A simple lullaby sung to a child by his mother who marvels at the miracle before her…
'I adore my little child Sleep little child safely...'"