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Subject: Songs about celtic mythology From: GUEST,Fianna O'riely Date: 14 Sep 00 - 06:35 AM I don't really know old traditional irish songs. can anyone give me names of songs that tell about myth stories? thanks. Fianna |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Big Mick Date: 14 Sep 00 - 09:14 AM I am really glad you started this thread. Somewhere, on a long lost tape I remember a song about Oisin and Niamh and the Isle of Tir Na n-Og. I am pulling from memory, so forgive mistakes but it seems like it started with Across the misty morning Isle of Erin, Comes Niamh ......on her snow white steed Anyone remember this? I would love to figure out who did it and get a CD. Damn, one part of aging that sucks is when the memory starts to go...... Mick |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: MMario Date: 14 Sep 00 - 09:47 AM This book here seems like it would be an interesting place to start. Don't foget that if you go through the links from mudcat instead of directly then the Mudcat gets a small percentage. url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1567186580/deannasworld0d/002-6523118-9032869
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Mbo Date: 14 Sep 00 - 10:06 AM Check out the albums The Tain and The Book of Invasions by The Horslips. Excellent songs dealing with Celtic mythology. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: LAND OF YOUTH / TIR NA OG (from MBrennan From: GUEST,Susan-Marie Date: 14 Sep 00 - 10:27 AM This is not the song Big Mick remembers, but it's the same story. It's a modern song, not traditional. The Irish Gaelic is missing all the accents - someday I'll have to figure out how to do that.
LAND OF YOUTH (TIR NA OG)
Chorus: Is gra geal mo chroi thu
Beauty and grace with golden hair CHORUS
Carried away on impulse
Wherever you will go I will go CHORUS
Three hundred years
CHORUS Three hundred years Copyright 1992 Clannad Music/BMG Records |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Alice Date: 14 Sep 00 - 10:44 AM If you put @myth in the Digitrad search box, you get lots of songs related to mythology, some Celtic. LUGHNASAD DANCE is one. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: GUEST,Susan-Marie Date: 14 Sep 00 - 10:49 AM MMArio - I've looked at "A Bard's Book of Pagan Songs" - my recollection is that it's all songs by a modern author, so if you're looking for traditional stuff you might not be interested. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: MMario Date: 14 Sep 00 - 11:29 AM I was afraid of that. But it was the only thing I found in a search that looked even close... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Peg Date: 14 Sep 00 - 12:03 PM The band that does "Tir na Nog" (from the '70s) is on the tip of my tongue...I am on it! Are you mainly interested in Irish-based mythology? There are also plenty of songs about old folk heroes that are English ballads, or Scottish...Bonny Prince Charlie inspired quite a few in Ireland and Scotland... Thomas the Rhymer by Steeleye Span comes to mind... Standing Stones (recorded by Loreena McKennitt) tells a tragic love story set near a mythical lover's stone in the Orkney isles...
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Mrrzy Date: 14 Sep 00 - 12:08 PM I love the childrens show about the Knights of Tir-Na-n-Og... and in a song whose name escapes me, but the chorus runs Let Erin remember the days of old... there is a mention of Malachy (spelled in real life a lot longer than that!), but I was never clear if he was a real or a mythical personage. That song also has the nicest phrasing about a common view of Ireland/England - "The emerald gem of the Western world was set in the crown of a stranger" - beautiful imagery, that... VERY good thread! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Metchosin Date: 14 Sep 00 - 12:38 PM Type Silkie into the DT and you will get a number of songs. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: MMario Date: 14 Sep 00 - 12:40 PM Peg - as I understand it, Standing stones, the song, comes from a local legend about an actual standing stone circle...or at least that's what the web site I read from the orkneys said about it. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Mbo Date: 14 Sep 00 - 12:42 PM Ferdiad just laughed and shook his golden hair... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Metchosin Date: 14 Sep 00 - 12:56 PM Also on on one level, Loreena McKennitt's Stolen Child based upon the poem by W.B Yeats. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Peg Date: 14 Sep 00 - 12:57 PM Mick, yes you are right, it is in the Peter Kennedy book (Loreena added some lyrics for her chorus). I think the "lover's stone" in the song is one of the stones that people can walk through? and are blessed forever with love if they do so...didn't work for this unfortunate couple, sadly... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Alice Date: 14 Sep 00 - 01:53 PM Fianna, are you still with us? Are any of these ideas what you had in mind? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 14 Sep 00 - 03:12 PM Edw. Bunting's 1840 collection, 'Ancient Music of Ireland', text page 87, gives "Dierdre's Lamentation" [text is English and song is probably 18th century]. See the Irish tune index on my website for copies of the tune. Search this Forum for info on 'Dierdre' [story of]. If the story is real, then it must have happened shortly before Fergus mac Roch moved to what is now Scotland, very close to 500 CE. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 14 Sep 00 - 03:21 PM Sorry, I forgot to mention that the spelling is sometimes 'Deirdre', as Bunting has. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: mousethief Date: 14 Sep 00 - 05:01 PM If you count faeries as "celtic mythology" then the song Thomas the Rhymer (the only version I've ever heard is the Steeleye Span version) would count also.
Alex |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: GUEST,Ro Date: 14 Sep 00 - 08:43 PM Hello. I just had a question. Does anyone know where I can find mp3 of some ballads in this catagory? I have to find something for school, and I don't know where to look. Any answer will help greatly. Thanks, Ro luzallen@aol.com |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: maire-aine Date: 21 May 05 - 08:59 AM Refresh. Still looking for more material. Thanks, M. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: GUEST,Allen Date: 21 May 05 - 10:18 AM Try Phil Lynott's tribute to his Irish heritage the fantastic "Roisin Dubh" which can be found on Thin Lizzy's "Black Rose". |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Joe Offer Date: 30 Oct 08 - 01:31 PM Mandrake Press (click) has a very extensive dictionary of Celtic mythological beings. I came across a Celtic myth filk song in the Digital Tradition last night, On Midsummer Day, by Murtaugh. I wonder who Murtaugh was, and where the song came from. If anybody knows, please post in the Origins thread for the song. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: GUEST,Neahga Date: 30 Oct 08 - 09:18 PM Why not write to NPR's The Thistle and Shamrock radio show (http://thistleradio.com/) to ask if they have any suggestions? The lady who DJs the show has quite a varied guest list and may have some good ideas of whom to contact, or where to go next. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 30 Oct 08 - 10:25 PM Stan Rogers "Giant" http://www.last.fm/music/Stan+Rogers/_/Giant?autostart |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs about celtic mythology From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 30 Oct 08 - 10:28 PM Try Again Giant |
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