Nice that you found the 'Stone Fiddle' book, but you've another treat in store with his "Where Songs Do Thunder" where he memorably describes Geordie Hanna as "not moulded in tradition; he was quarried out of it."

Anyway there was another thread on this song just a few days ago Lyr Req: Is fada mo chosa gan bhróga, although the translation there differs from the one by Paddy Tunney in 'Stone Fiddle'.

There is a performance of the song on YouTube by Skara Brae from a 2004 TG4 programme, and another by more or less the same people Tríona, Mairéad and Mícheál O Domhnaill with a full set of lyrics in both languages.

See also another thread on Mudcat: Lyr Req: An Saighdiúr Treigthe/ Deserted Soldier.

Matthew