The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #28706   Message #4097297
Posted By: Felipa
12-Mar-21 - 09:54 AM
Thread Name: ADD: An Buachailin Ban/Fair-Haired Boy
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: An Buachailin Ban
isn't the translation in Beth Boyle's comment at the Iarla Ó Lionáird youtube video the same as what Jim Dixon posted earlier? Looks okay to me (apart from a typo on the word "prisoner". The "John" referred to in the last verse (Seán, ar Sheán)is John Bull(the English/British).

Buachaill is normally spelled with a double "l!.