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A Gaelic Blessing is an English language choral composition by John Rutter, consisting of four vocal parts and organ or orchestra. It is also known by the repeating first line of the text, "Deep peace". The work was commissioned by the Chancel Choir of First United Methodist Church, Omaha, Nebraska, for their conductor Mel Olson.
Keening, which can be seen as a form of sean-nós singing, is performed in the Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages (the Scottish equivalent of keening is known as a coronach). Keening was once an integral part of the formal Irish funeral ritual, but declined from the 18th century and became almost completely extinct by the middle of the 20th ...
Irish writer Edna O’Brien’s “revolutionary intervention in Irish fiction” has been remembered during her funeral mass, which was attended by Ireland’s President Michael D Higgins.
Christy Kenneally (born 1948) is an Irish author, speaker, poet, TV presenter and scriptwriter. He is well known for his books and lectures on the subject of bereavement and dealing with loss. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
"An Irish Blessing" ("May the road rise to meet you"), [3] 1987 "Do You Know Me?", 1987, for Gustav Schörghofer "Let us go to the house of our Lord", 1992
On "Tuireamh na hÉireann," Vincent Morley wrote that it was "arguably one of the most important works ever written in Ireland. Composed in simple metre, easily understandable and capable of being learned by heart, this poem supplied an understanding of Irish history for the Catholic majority (monoglot speakers of Irish who could neither read nor write for the next two hundred years)."
There are conflicting accounts of the origins of Ag Críost an Síol.. Some sources describe the poem as "traditional" or "an old anonymous prayer". [1] [2]Another source [3] says that it was in fact written in 1916 by Father Michael Sheehan (Micheál Ó Síocháin) of Waterford, a co-founder of Coláiste na Rinne, the Irish College in An Rinn, County Waterford, who later became assistant ...
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