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Thread #123708   Message #3888921
Posted By: GUEST
16-Nov-17 - 04:35 PM
Thread Name: Req: Sean-DĂșn na nGall (Gaelige)/My Old Donegal
Subject: RE: Req: Sean-D?n na nGall (Gaelige)/My Old Donegal
Mo Shean D?n na nGall
Written by John Clinton O'Boyce in May 1902

Is gr? geal mo chro? th?,
'Th?r Chonaill, a st?r,
'Do lu? mar bheadh seoid ghlas
san fharraige m?r,
? gr?im th? i gc?na? go moch is go mall,
Is molfaidh m? a cho?ch' th?,
a Shean-D?n na nGall

N?l contae in ?irinn
n?os deise n? th?,
N?l daoine sa domhan m?r
n?os fearr c?il is cl?,
N? t? i dT?r Chonaill abhus agus thall
.?! Bl?th b?n ?r dt?re th?, '
? shean d?n na ngall

T? teanga ?r sinnsear
Da labhairt ann go foill ;
Comh milis binn blasta
Le habhrain na ceol

Na n-aingeal 'sna flaithis,
Gan smacht? gan sm?l-
O gr?im go deo th?
A shean D?n na nGall.

I gcuir t?r' no teangtha
No creidimh t? fuil
Nach mb?onn as dT?r Conaill
A choiche ar gc?l;
Mar tiocfaidh ?r ball,
B?idh gr? ag an domhan m?r
Ar shean D?n na nGall.

Later translated to English by Carl Hardebeck in his "Gems of Melody"