The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #22649   Message #254645
Posted By: GUEST,Deirdre
09-Jul-00 - 03:33 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Sliabh Geal gCua na Feile (P Ó Máille)
Subject: RE: Sliabh geal gCua
In reply to the request for music, the trad. American band Solas, recorded this song on their first cd, Shanachie Records, no.78002. In the liner notes it says, " Sliabh Geal gCua na Féile was written in 1890 by Pádraig Ó Máille. He was an exile in the coal mines of Wales. This song is a lament, a cry of loneliness and anguish at being exiled from the thing he loved most in the world, Ireland." They also include a translation by Oisín Ó Siochrú.