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Thread #906   Message #82780
Posted By: Virginia's husband
29-May-99 - 10:48 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Slievenamon
Subject: RE: Slievenamon
Hello,

I have beeb reading what you all have written about Sliabh Na mBan. I have the full of its words if you'd all like them, but the man you should listen to is Nioclas Toibin from Ring, Co. Waterford. He was a great, mighty singer. The air is older than the song itself. My family years ago sung it and is similar to another air, Cath ceim an fheir The Battle of the Deer's Leep, which is an Elizabethan song from the Ulster poet Aoghan an Fhir rua mhoir. Beyond that, I don't know much. Sorry to be without knowledge on this.