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Thread #164413 Message #3934094
Posted By: Jim Carroll
29-Jun-18 - 10:51 AM
Thread Name: Help with coupla Irish song words
Subject: RE: Help with coupla Irish song words
The song is an 'Aísling', (a 'code' song) a form which is said to have come into being during the Penal times when it was impossible to express nationalist feelings without putting your life or liberty in danger
Here, the woman represents Ireland
In similar songs, such as 'An Raibh Tú ag an gCarraig?' - 'Were You at the Rock?', the references are religious, in this latter case the mass rocks that are still scattered around rural Ireland - there's one about ten miles from here in South Clare
Jim Carroll