Origins: The Kerry Hills

Subject: Origins: The Kerry Hills
From: jim troy
Date: 08 Jul 08 - 08:34 PM

your starter for 2 pints , to be had at Mullagh , in the county Clare , within the time constraints of the Willie Week .
who wrote the song The Kerry Hills (oh , it's with affection and recollection , oft times iv'e wandered over memories haze )

thanking you , jim troy

Subject: RE: Origins: The Kerry Hills
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 04:45 AM

Ask Tim Dennehy - or Sean Garvey. both of whom are well within pint-drinking range of Miltown this week!

Regards

Subject: RE: Origins: The Kerry Hills
From: GUEST,Maurice
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 04:32 PM

I think it was Sean McCarthy...not sure though.

Subject: RE: Origins: The Kerry Hills
From: Big Tim
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 04:42 PM

Lyrics please?

Subject: RE: Origins: The Kerry Hills
From: Zhenya
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 05:34 PM

Here's a link to a previous Mudcat thread about this song which might answer your questions:


Previous thread on The Kerry Hills

Subject: RE: Origins: The Kerry Hills
From: MartinRyan
Date: 12 Jul 08 - 05:50 PM

There are several versions of this in circulation. I'm told that Sean McCarthy wrote/adapted one version, which is commonly sung. There are older verses around.

I'll try to check further.

Regards

Subject: RE: Origins: The Kerry Hills
From: MartinRyan
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 05:10 AM

Tim Dennehy, in the notes to his 1993 album "A Winter's Tears", says of this one:

"I first heard the Kerry box player Breandán Ó Beaglaoich play this as a slow air. Breandán had got the words and air from his neighbour Tadhg Ó Flatharta in Baile Breac (West Kerry), a slightly adapted version of which can be heard here.
Simple yet evocative words match a very beautiful melody which Thomas Moore used for arguably his most popular song The Last Rose of Summer. "

Regards

Subject: RE: Origins: The Kerry Hills
From: GUEST,denis murphy
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 03:40 PM

heard it was composed by Siegerson Clifford, writer of Thje Boys of Barr na Sraide and many, many other songs - from The Glen/Ballinaskelligs, Co Ciarrai