An lá roimh Lá Fhéile Phádraig.
Slua maith ag an seisiún, mar is gnách. Amhráin as Bearla agus as Gaeilge.
Chan Clíona:
Bhíos lá 'le Pádraig, is mé im shuí i dtigh an tábhairne
bhí cuideacht' álainn lem' ais ag ól.
Bhí maighre mánla, na gcuacha mbán ann
A súil mar an áirne, 's a grua mar snó.
Bhí dís deartháir ann, 'na suí ós cionn cláir ann
A thug searc is grá don réalthainn óig:
Fear súiste 's rámhainne, 's máistir scoláirí
A scríobh a lán is a léigh go leor.
... bíonn a rogha ag an mbean, agus is beag rómánsaíocht atá ag baint leis an scéal - piocann sí
"An téigh gur léir leis, chun tís a dhéanamh,
Is é ba mhéin liomsa 'theacht im threo"!
Agus tuige nach mbeadh.
Ar aghaidh linn go lá Valentín. Beidh an lá sin thart, fán am go gcastar ar a chéile sinn arís, ar an 20 Aibreán, ach b'fhéidir go mbeidh an grá seachas an ghruaim san aer?
February 2013
February began with Breege singing a lovely version of Matt Hyland. I grabbed these lyrics from Mucat.org, I hope they don't mind.
You can find some more information on it online at the English Folkdance and Song Society, the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library , where it has a Roud (index) number, 2880, as there are so many versions of it. Sometimes the title is Matt Ireland, sometimes Matt Highland, and sometimes Matt Hyland. It's a song that has been collected in Ireland North and South, in England and in the US.
MATT HYLAND
There lived a lord within this land
Who had a fair and lovely daughter
She was courted by a nice young man
Who was a servant to her father
But when her parents came to know
They swore they'd drive him from the island
But this maid she knew that her heart would break
If she should part from young Matt Hyland
Straightway into his room she goes
Into his room him to awaken
Saying, "Arise and go, my own true love
This very night you will be taken
For I have heard my father say
In spite of me he will transport you
So arise and go, my own true love
I wish to God I'd gone before you"
"Ah, must I go," the young man said
"Ah, must I go without my wages
With ne'er a penny in my purse
Just like some poor forlorn stranger?"
"Here's fifty guineas in bright gold
And that's far more than father owes you
So arise and go, my own true love
I wish to God I'd gone before you"
They both sat down upon the bed
Just side by side for one half hour
And ne'er a word did either say
Yet down their cheeks the tears did shower
She's laid her head all on his breast
Round his waist her arms entwined
"No lord or duke or earl I'll wed
I'll wait for you my Young Matt Hyland"
The lord discussed with his daughter dear
One night alone in her bedchamber
Saying, "I'll give you leave to bring him back
Since there are none you style above him"
She wrote a letter then in haste
Still for him her heart entwined
She's brought him back, to the church they went
She's made a lord of young Matt Hyland
@courtship
sung by Jean Redpath, Frank Harte
filename[ MATTHYL
TUNE FILE: MATTHYL
You can find some more information on it online at the English Folkdance and Song Society, the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library , where it has a Roud (index) number, 2880, as there are so many versions of it. Sometimes the title is Matt Ireland, sometimes Matt Highland, and sometimes Matt Hyland. It's a song that has been collected in Ireland North and South, in England and in the US.
MATT HYLAND
There lived a lord within this land
Who had a fair and lovely daughter
She was courted by a nice young man
Who was a servant to her father
But when her parents came to know
They swore they'd drive him from the island
But this maid she knew that her heart would break
If she should part from young Matt Hyland
Straightway into his room she goes
Into his room him to awaken
Saying, "Arise and go, my own true love
This very night you will be taken
For I have heard my father say
In spite of me he will transport you
So arise and go, my own true love
I wish to God I'd gone before you"
"Ah, must I go," the young man said
"Ah, must I go without my wages
With ne'er a penny in my purse
Just like some poor forlorn stranger?"
"Here's fifty guineas in bright gold
And that's far more than father owes you
So arise and go, my own true love
I wish to God I'd gone before you"
They both sat down upon the bed
Just side by side for one half hour
And ne'er a word did either say
Yet down their cheeks the tears did shower
She's laid her head all on his breast
Round his waist her arms entwined
"No lord or duke or earl I'll wed
I'll wait for you my Young Matt Hyland"
The lord discussed with his daughter dear
One night alone in her bedchamber
Saying, "I'll give you leave to bring him back
Since there are none you style above him"
She wrote a letter then in haste
Still for him her heart entwined
She's brought him back, to the church they went
She's made a lord of young Matt Hyland
@courtship
sung by Jean Redpath, Frank Harte
filename[ MATTHYL
TUNE FILE: MATTHYL
January 2013
A gentle beginning to 2013. Boyle singers in good voice and Clare took up the "Twas in the month of January" challenge beautifully.
Nollaig na mBan, 6 Jan session in Drumkeeran
Jim Bainbridge and Jackie Boyce's Drumkeeran singing session will be happening this coming Sunday, 6th Jan. Sing in the New Year in Forde's Pub from 5pm.
15 December 2012
We had a night by the fire, both inside and out. Some Christmas songs in Dodds and some more outside, at the end of our night, singing at the bonfire on the Crescent where the Boyle Sleep Out 2012 was taking place, in the wind and the rain. Fair play to them.
November 2012
Celebrity night : Michael Ned's dog, Úna Bhán, Josie MacDermott, Alexander and Dónal Cam O'Sullivan Beare; Eleanór a Rún and Loving Hannah.
Drumkeeran singing session, Sunday, November 4th, 5pm
Jim Bainbridge and Jackie Boyce will be hosting the Drumkeeran singing session again this month, November 4th, Sunday, in Forde's pub, 5pm.
Jim recently wrote an article about Singing Circles in Ireland for the 'Living Tradition' magazine, published recently.
The 1st Sunday singing session is a regular one, alternating every second month with the Market House in Blacklion - so November's session is in Drumkeeran and December's will be in Blacklion.
Jim recently wrote an article about Singing Circles in Ireland for the 'Living Tradition' magazine, published recently.
The 1st Sunday singing session is a regular one, alternating every second month with the Market House in Blacklion - so November's session is in Drumkeeran and December's will be in Blacklion.
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