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Thread #159615   Message #3788656
Posted By: keberoxu
04-May-16 - 06:11 PM
Thread Name: De Barra family ancestry (harps)
Subject: RE: De Barra family ancestry (harps)
A previous post dated 30 March 2016 cites a Gaelic-language RTE children's television programme, which told stories in Irish. Every episode would be introduced with a recording of traditional musicians singing the nonsense-song, "Dilín Ó Deamhas," and this was also the name of the television show.

There is a widely-reproduced still color photograph from this television show. In it, the centerpiece is an Irish harp. An elderly Róisín Uí Thuama, silver-haired, is seated at the harp, and several small children are seated around her, singing along with her. I have failed in my attempts to locate any moving-picture footage of all of them singing together, although you can hear the sound of them singing the nonsense song, a traditional Irish song for bouncing babies on one's knee, in a clip at the RTE website.

And the small children are, in fact, the harpist's grandchildren, including Éamonn and Cormac de Barra, who are now grown up and recording traditional Irish music themselves.

Oh, and Mudcat has one or two threads concerning the above-mentioned traditional song.