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Thread #52487   Message #953119
Posted By: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
15-May-03 - 11:04 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Se Fath Mo Bhuartha/Reason for my Sorrow
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Se Fadh mo Bhuar Tha
Good thread.

The Chieftains' (or was it still Ceoltóirí Cualann's?) instrumental version of the tune was one of the first pieces that got me playing the tin whistle, but in the intervening 30 years or so I had forgotten all about it. I'll give it a lash at the Belgian Uilleann Pipers' tionól this weekend.

Any chance that a friendly Seosamh Ó Clóin could "correct" the thread title and make it more search-engine-friendly by changing it to "Fath mo Bhuartha" so that future seekers can resurrect it more easily?

And in passing, a "thank you" to the Gaelic scholars - especially Philippa, obviously - who give us lots of reliable input. I have occasionally chipped in with replies to questions about Irish on the basis of remnants of what I learned in school, but it is a pleasure in an era or rampant béarlachas to defer to people who really know what they're talking about.