About "Mo Mhuirnín Bán," by the way:

This is a different Irish-language lyric than "Fath Mo Buartha", which is one of the tracks on the Folkways album. I can't compare the tunes, but the words are altogether different. I say this even though I have no Gaelic to speak of.

Thanks to Mudcat, I was able to locate the "Fath Mo Buartha" text in the original Irish, and once I had a copy, I sat down with the Gael-Linn "Amhráin Ghrá" album and listened to Deirdre Ní Fhlóinn singing "Mo Mhuirnín Bán," to make certain, one way or the other, which song this was. And although this is not one of my languages, while I had the "Fath Mo Buartha" lyrics right in front of me, and the CD playing on the player at the same time, I am positively confident that the Gaelic that Ms. Ní Fhlóinn was singing, was an entirely different Gaelic lyric: it begins with the words "Mo mhuirnín bán," and then goes on to a set of verses entirely different from what I had printed out. They are two different poems, at least.


About the Folkways album, though, there was a point I did not make clear, and now is a good time to do it:
the third track, "Maidean I mBearra," is the Gaelic-language version of "Danny Boy."