"One of the best known seán-nós songs of the present time, 'Ar Éirinn Ní Neosfainn cé hí' is a development of an 18th century Lowland Scots song entitled 'The Banks of the Tweed'"
Mícheál Ó Suilleabháin, "Irish Music Defined". The Crane Bag, vol.5, no.2, 1981.