The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69073   Message #3794118
Posted By: keberoxu
06-Jun-16 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: Maire Ni Scolai (1909 - 1985) traditional singer
Subject: RE: Maire Ni Scolai (1909 - 1985) traditional singer
In looking at the songs recorded and re-issued on the "Máire Ní Scolaí" vinyl LP from Gael Linn records in 1971, I will have to focus carefully on one published/printed anthology in particular: the Amhráin Mhuighe Seóla, "traditional folk-songs from Galway and Mayo," printed in 1921 and edited by Mrs. Eileen Costello of Tuam. While I have been cross-checking in more than one traditional-song anthology of late -- for example, the Munster anthology edited by O'Daly and Sigerson, and the Connacht anthology edited and translated by Hyde -- the words recorded on the Gael Linn album, often as not, come from song versions in the Galway/Mayo anthology from Mrs. Costello. This is true of "An Draighneán Donn," for example; it is also true of the recorded version of the Connemara lullaby (Suantraídhe) with lyrics by a UC Galway professor.