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Thread #160351 Message #3803398
Posted By: Felipa
03-Aug-16 - 02:42 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Cnocainin Aerach Cill Mhuire (Kilmurry)
Subject: Lyr Add: Cnocainin Aerach Cill Mhuire (Kilmurry)
notes on the area and video of Séamus O Beaglaíoch singing Cnocáinín Aerach Cill Mhuire with classical style guitar played by Tim Edey https://niallmurraycork.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/cnocainin-aerach-cill-mhuire/
also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u76ncK8Ux6s&index=28&list=PL4946BD0CA7AF57EC
when I hear this tune, I think of Gilbert and Sullivan "tit willow" - it's not the same, but ...
O Muithile's source: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/title/A%20new%20song%20called%20the%20Flourishing%20states%20of%20Kilmurry
see also page 47 of this scrapbook http://www.itma.ie/digitallibrary/book/ballad-sheet-scrapbook-1-part-1
I hadnt heard English language versions before -
The Wee Aery Hill of Kilmurrry (Golden Bough) http://mp3songpreview.com/golden-bough-the-airy-wee-hill-of-kilmurray_mp3-song-download-1363009
(also - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI1ZagDsTmo but video not available, at least not in my region)
I don't know whether or not Dennis Doyle's Kilmurray Hill is a version of the same song; I don't have access to the service at http://tidido.com/a35184373985672/al55f06d32a5f39075732b6096/t55f06d34a5f39075732b6189