Deus Meus Adiuva Me

[@noragorey305]

Beautiful! Totally soul nourishing.

[@Calenethuil2]

Wonderful! Thanks for this video! It's my favourite song! The guitar is perfect and both voices are divinely soft. I love it!

[@ironworks4105]

Adiuva Me" (Come to Me) is a traditional Irish hymn taken from ancient monastic manuscripts, dating from around 1086 A.D. It is written in a style that was popular in Western Europe during the Mediaeval period, called "macaronics". Macaronics are poems composed in alternating lines and phrases using two different languages, one of them usually Latin. In this case the second is Old or Middle Irish Gaelic. Though the author is unknown it is commonly attributed to the Irish cleric Maol Iosa O Brolchain, a renowned Irish poet during the 11th century. His name, sometimes spelled Mael Isu, means "follower of Jesus" in Gaelic.

[@donalobrolchain5657]

A cousin Muireann Ní Brolcháin (died in 2015) was a specialist in Old and Medieval Irish, who wrote a critical edition of 12 poems attributed to Maol íosa's ( ie. Maol íosa Ó Brolcháin. An Sagart Maigh Nuad 1986). Deus Meus was among the 8 poems of which she was certain Maol Íósa was the author. I am not aware that this view has been questioned. She published a summary of her assessment in Seanchas Ard Mhaca Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society Vol 12. No. 1 1986 p43-67. She also used the same material in the 1986 Annual Colmcille lecture in Derry, the text of which was published in the Donegal Annual 1986 No. 38 p. 2-19.

[@arumba7345]

Adiuva me means help me.

[@materdeimusicd.buckley2974]

@@donalobrolchain5657 thank you. I used to know Deirbhile ni Bhrolchain, beautiful singer. Is she Muireanns sister? Unfortunately, I lost contact.

[@JLLaenens]

Beautiful !! The guitar part is very nicely brought in comparaison with the harp basic version !

[@DavidTownsend]

Beautiful very moving.

[@josephemcmahon]

Lovely performance - pace just right

[@JLLaenens]

Are the guitar tabs available ?

[@McMusicIreland]

@bonnymathew Hello and sorry for the delay getting back to you all. I appreciate the feedback from all - thank you very much :-) Thanks for the translation also. I'm led to believe that the song was composed by a monk named Maol Iosa O'Brolchain as far back as the 12th Century, but not sure of the accuracy of that.

[@McMusicIreland]

@gloworm7 Hi there, if you search for Anne Marie O'Farrell Deus Meus on Google you might find what you're looking for. I hope that this is of some use to you! Michael