03: Songs in Irish - Sean Nós Singing

Iarla Ó Lionáird

Caoineadh na dTrí Muire

• religious song/lament

• scene of the crucifixion

• song of passion

• instruments: accordion

Kitty Gallagher (Donegal): Keen for a Dead Child

example for keening

Síle Denvir - Caisleán Uí Néill

• lyric love song from connacht

• this version: 1970s

• structure: AABB

• in ionian mode

• example for an old song that was adapted in many ways since then

Padraig O Tuama - Cath Cheim an Fhia

• political song from Munster

• about battle between agrarian secret society and british forces

• commemorative and call for future anti-colonial movements

Eanach Cuain

Joe Heany

• song from connemara

• air

• melismatic ornamentation

Pol O Ceannabhain - Johnny Seoige

• song from connemara

• from time of the famine

Úirchill An Chreagáin

• Donegal

• from creggan in Armagh

• about the dream of a poet