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Thread #66743   Message #1111290
Posted By: Felipa
07-Feb-04 - 06:47 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta
I'm sorry, this info will be of no use to Sarah (try Áine or Alison!). I don't have Ó Baoill to hand, but I think it had the other tune for "Tá mo chleamhnas ..."

Now, if an Púca was looking for sheet-music, "Téir abhaile" is in Micheál Bowles, "Claisceadal 2". Bowles writes that "The Kerry Jig, in Graves' Irish Song Book, may be thought similar to the tune of this song; likewise, O'Neill's Irish Music, No. 203."

"Radhadlam Raindí" is in the 1976 publication of "Cuisle an Cheoil". The Education Dept, An Roinn Oiceahais, still publishes a book called "Cuisle an Cheoil", but according to the catalogue of "An Gum" the present edition contains different songs. "Radhalam Raindí" (rattle-um-randy ?) is the tune to which I heard "Tá mo mhadra ..." sung by one of the Ó Beaglaioch brothers of Kerry, Breandán or Séamus.

So, Púca, I think you have given me the makings of a couple more threads ... sometime soon ...