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Mother Machree" is a 1910 American-Irish song with lyrics by Rida Johnson Young and singer Chauncey Olcott, and music by Ernest Ball. It was originally written for the show Barry of Ballymoore. [1] It was first released by Chauncey Olcott, then by Will Oakland in 1910. The song was later kept popular by John McCormack and others.
A Stór Is A Stóirín (or A Stór Is A Stóirín: Songs For All Ages) is a studio album by Irish singer Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin with Garry Ó Briain. [2] The album spawned various television and radio appearances for Ní Uallacháin in Ireland and in Britain.
The song describes a veteran of the Easter Rising telling a young man about his old comrades in the Irish Republican Army. Each chorus ends with the Irish language phrase "a ghrá mo chroí (love of my heart), I long to see, the Boys of the Old Brigade". [2] [3] Oh, father why are you so sad On this bright Easter morn' When Irish men are proud ...
Brian O'Higgins was born in 1882, the youngest of fourteen children of small farmers in Kilskeer, County Meath. [1] His great-grandfather, Seán Ó Huiginn, was a poor scholar from County Tyrone who was travelling to Munster before he encountered a group of men who were rushing to Tara to fight in the Rising of 1798. [2]
"The Well Below the Valley" – the Irish version of "The Maid and the Palmer" (Child ballad #21), recorded by Planxty [22] "The Maid From Cabra West" – an Irish version of an English song, sung by Frank Harte [24] "The Colleen Bawn", based on a true story of a girl murdered in 1819, dealt with in a play by Dion Boucicault [112]
"Macushla" is the title of an Irish song that was copyrighted in 1910, with music by Dermot Macmurrough (Harold R. White) and lyrics by Josephine V. Rowe. . The title is a transliteration of the Irish mo chuisle, meaning "my pulse" as used in the phrase a chuisle mo chroí, which means "pulse of my heart", and thus mo chuisle has come to mean "darling" or "sweetheart".
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Érin grá mo chroí" ("Ireland, love of my heart", Roud 14056) is an Irish folksong that tells of emigration from Ireland. [1] [2] [3] References