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Some waulking songs have a strict verse-and-chorus structure. In other songs, the vocables are sung at the end of each line of a verse. In a song like 'S Fliuch an Oidhche ('Wet is the Night'), also known as Coisich a Rùin ('Come on, My Love'), the last two lines of one verse become the first two lines of the following one. A tradition holds ...
Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe (the modern Celtic nations). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It refers to both orally-transmitted traditional music and recorded music and the styles vary considerably to include everything from traditional music to a wide ...
In 2016 a recording was made by an Irish band Glaslevin as a fund-raiser for Celtic F.C.'s ultras supporters group Green Brigade, and in February 2024 members of the group were being encouraged to sing the song as a gesture of support for Palestine, with a statement: "'Grace' is a song of love, hope, loss, pain, steadfastness, resistance and ...
The song has English language verses and an Irish language chorus, a style known as macaronic. The title (pronounced [ˌʃuːlʲ ə ˈɾˠuːnʲ]) translates to "go, my love" (or variants): siúil is an imperative, literally translating to "walk!", a rúin is a term of endearment.
Lais are short (typically 600–1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry, often involving supernatural and fairy-world Celtic motifs. The word "lay" or "lai" is thought to be derived from the Old High German and/or Old Middle German leich , which means play, melody, or song, [ 1 ] or as suggested by Jack Zipes in The Oxford Companion to ...
"My Lagan Love" (Roud 1418) is a song to a traditional Irish air, first collected in 1903 in northern County Donegal. The English lyrics have been credited to Joseph Campbell (1879–1944), also known as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil and Joseph McCahill, among others). [ 1 ]
Sean-nós songs cover a range of genres, from love song to lament to lullaby, traditionally with a strong focus on conveying the relevant emotion of the given song. [1] The term sean-nós , which simply means '[in the] old way', is a vague term that can also refer to various other traditional activities , musical and non-musical.
"The Galway Shawl" is a traditional Irish folk song, concerning a rural courtship in the West of Ireland. The first known version was collected by Sam Henry from Bridget Kealey in Dungiven in 1936. [1] The song has been popularly recorded by many ballad groups in Ireland and is now commonly adapted to a waltz time so that people can dance to it.