Kate Bush - Mná na hÉireann (Women of Ireland)

[@vincenthughes8430]

Thank you Kate Bush for respecting our language. This is one of the most beautiful versions of the song I have ever heard.

[@MrStoneyburke]

+Vincent Hughes kates mother is irish from dungarvan co'waterford

[@MrGaultier68]

Perfect. Beautiful

[@NikCan66]

Kate Bush mother was an Irish Dancer

[@stephaniedaly5041]

She sings better Irish than me.

[@tmm7369]

Unfortunately she was given a bum steer in the pronunciation of the word "Bean" ( Ban) . She is pronouncing "Bhean"(Van). Probably not her fault. Otherwise , beautiful.

[@jackieunwin2553]

This song is superbly sung by Kate Bush, and the musical arrangement by Donal Lunny is the icing on the cake for sure. I am so proud of Kate and Donal for such a beautiful creation.

[@jonnolly]

This was played at our Mum's funeral, and her headstone bears the inscription 'bean na h'Eireann' which was supposed to mean 'a woman of Ireland' but think it actually says ' The women of Ireland'. Eitherway, this version is beyond praise. Simply of another world.

[@bonmacg3630]

Bean means a woman so it’s correct; mná means women

[@MrJohnsolomon]

Bean is singular as in 'woman of Ireland' which would be appropriate since she was one. The plural form would be mná, as in the song. But the song is about women not a woman.

[@michaelcarolan3117]

Correct - it means woman of Ireland - go n - éiri leat

[@eireannog6739]

Kate Bush is loved throughout the world for her individual talent and style. From her Irish Mother she possesses a unique talent in understanding and delivering true Irish music, which often embodies it's struggle through foreign occupation and famine. Not only Mná na hÉireann (Women of Ireland) are proud of Kate but all of Ireland! Thank you, your Mother would be so proud. Le gach dea-ghuí. Slanté x

[@kevinobrien1259]

Beautiful song sung by our Beautiful Katie, I've been a fan since she appeared on the scene and I saw her first show at the Palladium ( London) , I wrote to her about her music in the eighties, letter sent to her Parents home in Kent, I didn't really expect a reply as she was a very busy much in demand artist by then, imagine how I felt when a very personal hand written letter came back to me on headed paper, it was a lovely letter and so friendly it was as if she knew me. A true icon and so talented, her music means so much to people.

[@ronaran8420]

What a blessing! Well deserved!👍

[@lisafreebairn7736]

That's fantastic! Hearing that makes me love her even more. So kind of her.

[@jeffreytemkin818]

That’s a wonderful story. That letter is priceless. Please tell me you saved it ! I would guard it with my life

[@thefairyqueen369]

What a beautiful story! How lovely to receive a letter from Kate......that is a true artist when they remain humble and kind! Thank you for sharing this, I find going through the comments so inspiring that Humanity is so much more than the main stream media would portray! Blessings to you:)

[@jamegumbsmigraines.3501]

Kate Bush's Mother is Irish and she was brought up on Irish music.

[@johnlyons52]

From Portlaw, County Waterford

[@edmundpower1250]

Really? 😮

[@joehusseymobile]

I heard this on Irish radio last week on St Patrick's day. I couldn't believe it when I heard who the singer was. It is simply exquisite with our native language sung with beautiful 'blas'.

[@kevinobrien1259]

Never be surprised at the artistic beauty of this woman, Kate Bush is a true icon.

[@stephaniedaly5041]

Yep, she’s half bla and very proud of her. Brilliant version.

[@trufflehunter58]

Did I just die and go to heaven? Yes, I think I did. Kate, you are a treasure. I have loved you and your work for 40 years.

[@1MoreAbhi]

Amazing! Being an Irish (Gaeilg') speaker I am thrilled at how Kate mastered this song, So proud of her .... (and her Irish Mother)

[@silaslangsyd]

Pronounced very well indeed , time for another listen :^)

[@decmurray1096]

Dónal Luny helped her with the pronunciation, but she wouldn't stop until it was perfect

[@MC-kn2so]

is there anywhere one could listen to the lyrics pronounced while speaking, not signing?

[@thosebloodshoteyes]

I love Kate Bush and Ireland and this is so wonderful. I wish I could visit, love you from Croatia!

[@zEphyRfirE]

For a kiss on the wind that will make the land..... the jig of life.

[@seancreagh9257]

Did you ever get to Ireland

[@thosebloodshoteyes]

@@seancreagh9257 Not yet, next year I hope! 💙

[@johnmc3862]

You can, it’s not yet a far…

[@bernadettemclernon2014]

I only heard this last week for the first time but I absolutely love it . An amazing song sung with such passion in a language that was not Kate’s first language. Spectacular. Thank Kate Bush .

[@jbooks888]

Kate's singing in this is just exquisite

[@rawedgeman01]

Beautifully sung...Kate's voice sends shivers down my back...love it

[@joefagan9335]

OMG your pronunciation is soo respectful (and cute). Thank you so much for taking the time and the care to do that Kate 💝💝💝

[@julianwild8556]

As a singer, I can only add - Wow. Such feeling and emotion and understanding behind the lyrics. Such command. Bravo! X

[@junerose-sommer5494]

Beautiful song sung beautifully by Kate Bush. How beautiful is our language!

[@williamspendlove8398]

Kate has a great voice for the Irishs songs

[@kerryevans1562]

Exceptional For a non native speaker .. Greetings from Dublin Ireland brother and sisters... Maìth thú.....Go hionntac

[@mollymoomilo]

My Dad a Dublin man from the Ivey Buildings (Guiness property) spent my childhood summers there from Liverpool. Dublin has a special place in my heart. go back as often as i can.Love Kate x

[@michaelcarolan3117]

I love this song - Kate is pure magic

[@pragmatic1ultramagnetic202]

Very impressed with her Irish.

[@MC-kn2so]

is there anywhere one could listen to the lyrics pronounced while speaking, not signing?

[@jeremyrose1331]

Perhaps the most beautiful voice and song I've ever heard.❤❤❤❤❤

[@SectionSixteen]

Kate's mother coming from Ireland may explain her very nice pronunciation of the Irish. No doubt, Kate made visits to her mother's family and learned how Irish voices sounded, even if they weren't speaking Gaelic. Hers is my favorite recording of this song.

[@nancyshanley4926]

Thank you Kate. My very favourite version of this magical song by O’Riada. The harp & fiddle accompaniment is so beautiful. Haunting.

[@Berniebop100]

Beautiful!! Listening to iit for the 1st time. Hauntingly magical and mystical....and still distinctly Kate Bush. ❤❤❤

[@axolotl8694]

I've been a Kate fan for decades but this is the first time I've heard her doing this... thank you KZbin! This is opening up a deep well. Just checked out her Lagan Love and it's interesting, controversial, etc.... wow. Glad I found this.

[@samholden2256]

Glad she's half Irish like me.By the way the little cottage by the sea is in achill in co mayo as i took the same cottage by camera.

[@QueenMaeve19]

Best version of this beloved song on the internet bar none! Thanks Kate. You are a treasure to us all! Fair ple to ya!

[@haberdashery148]

Dane: bought the album some 20 years ago when I lived in Ireland a few years. Hadn't checked the singers at all before listening. What a huge surprise when her unmistakable voice appeared. She is also much loved in Scandinavia.

[@ferdiriordan1]

Beautiful indeed and does full justice to our native tongue.

[@MrAllstarsujo]

Everything that Kate touches turns gold

[@flo15jo]

Oh my lord, thanks, Symphony. I am a great Kate Bush fan, but indolent ... I have never come across this great track before. Kate speaks in tongues. I know something of her family history with folk music and such .... to hear her wondeful phrasing on this .... a great find, for me.

[@paddy9i99]

She is singing in Gaelic Irish. Her mother was Irish. The name of this song translates 'The Women Of Ireland'

[@stephaniedaly5041]

You’ll never hear this on Irish radio , don’t know why but it’s a disgrace, beautiful song, should be out there.

[@briancarrapiett5331]

Absolutely beautiful ❤️ ☘️🎤🎼🇮🇪..." Women of Ireland".. 🎻😀

[@mariamcdonnell2592]

What a strikingly beautiful sound. Truely amazing, love this.

[@stephaniedaly5041]

Wow!! This has to be my favourite, so very well done Kate, you actually put us Irish to shame you covered it so well. Good on your mother for teaching you if like it should be. Well done.

[@Bpl541]

Beautiful song and Kate’s singing emotive and strong.❤

[@menapatricio]

I am not Irish, although my grandpa's last name is Cuvi, which could be an alteration of Coovey, and which then could explain my eternal infatuation with Irish music.... I have admired deeply Kate Bush, I just think she is one of a kind and the artistic mother of a whole generation of incredible women. So, this recording is just something unique to me. I really shed tears and they were not sad tears at all.

[@kathleennoonan5590]

It was possibly Ó Cuív which is an Irish name all right 😊

[@softheartedhana7992]

What a beautiful song, and Kate's beautiful voice is mesmerizing!

[@petermortimer6303]

We played it at my mother's funeral a couple of months ago. Such a beautiful song and I know that every time I play it I will weep.

[@tesorotesoro1654]

Thi song made me cry.✌️❤

[@hunhoniful]

My best regards and congratulations from Hungary! 🇭🇺

[@yeoldcap]

Brilliant. Sung completely in Irish! A nod to her Irish heritage!

[@TheUltraturkey]

So beautiful Kate, you’re an amazing artist ☘️

[@lannieridder4321]

I love the drawing of Kate with a violin! Thanks for posting this 💖

[@MrOrganicus]

Her dulcet tones soar into the mountains and down to the sea she is angelic and a remarkable sound coming to excite and captivate

[@steveleake]

I've ALWAYS loved Kate, she's so special. I don't think there is a more beautiful sound than a good female vocal, and this is certainly that!

[@res123190gamer]

im proud to have Irish heritage

[@coffeenciggy]

Thank you for the translation! The Irish sure knows how to write songs!

[@ArgumentShow]

Never heard this, amazing. fall in love with a lovely Eire women

[@kse4707]

my favorite version of this song by far!!!

[@jenniferbrady3415]

This is the best version that I've witnessed. Well done Kate and your beautiful mother

[@NuevosCaminos]

Long live to a Reunited and Republican Ireland !!!! Greetings from the sunny south, from yours friends, the Spanish people.

[@OSTARAEB4]

THANK YOU! The Irish have had always warm feelings to the Spanish people. Through the centuries, Spain came to aid Ireland in hopes of breaking English oppression. Despite abysmal results, the Irish to this day have never forgotten that. Perhaps it won't be a Republican Ireland, but a complete Republic OF Ireland.

[@paddy9i99]

Nice comment, much appreciated

[@burnettis1]

New walk? What sort of name is that?

[@mikekelly5869]

@@burnettis1 You're being too literal. it means new ways, new roads or new directions, basically new ways of doing things or new attitudes.

[@teamnoir]

I first heard this song in the move Barry Lyndon. I bought the soundtrack.

[@MultiMcginty]

Thank you Kate this is beautiful and know that we love you too

[@generalfrank6919]

I heard this song 20 years ago on a CD a cousin of mine had. At that time those CDs were not very original (hehe) and didn't have the names of the songs or the artists... I searched for this song every single year since then beacuse I found it beautiful, even though I had no idea (and I still don't) of what it said or what it was about. I am very proud I decided to follow a lead on someone who made a comment on a Enya video and that eventually brought me here! 20 years I searched for it. I will now enjoy it as much as I can... jesus a whole life has gone searching...

[@michael-101]

Shazam identifies music, and other programs.

[@thomasduffy4626]

Purely magical!

[@lorenzomeagher]

Fabulous interpretation of one of my favourite melodies ❤️

[@imnotabiologist9652]

Kate has inspired my art for decades 💗

[@peterdickson4359]

Just beautiful!

[@kenmannagh7788]

Mesmorisingly and hauntingly beautiful, thank you Kate.

[@GarryShepherdDreamGazePostPunk]

Beautifully Celtic 💚 J'adore Kate💙

[@quaddo]

This song (composed by Seán Ó Riada and Peadar Ó Dornín) was first recorded by Ceoltóirí Chualann, then later done instrumentally by The Chieftains. Other recordings: Bob James (1976), Ronnie Montrose (1986), The Christians (1989), Sinéad O'Connor (1995), Alan Stivell (1995), Mike Oldfield (1996), Sarah Brightman (aka So Many Things, 1998).

[@silverkitty2503]

i think the poem is an aishling ....where ireland is imagined as a beautiful woman...i was once told by someone ...that this song has a geis (spell taboo or curse in the irish language ) that no man should ever sing it ..and if he does ...he won't have luck in love. :) Maybe that is just because today you only really hear women sing it:) . I love this version by kate. :)

[@magicovento]

Thats it! Is about Brigid

[@marieatherton8502]

Kate sings from the heart Truly magical I love this version Thankyou KB

[@pepitapepino]

Kate has a beautiful voice that suits very well to all types of songs but this one is a very special one for me.Thank you for posting it.

[@lesaguy1501]

I can't listen to this song at work, because it makes me cry every time. Just exquisite

[@henry8smallwood]

How good to hear. Happy St. Patrick's.

[@victorbest8318]

Lovely song and all credit to Kate for singing it in perfect Irish

[@stereo_d]

Thinking of all our Mná today, 😥 R.I.P Ashling

[@jerryschipano8385]

Kate is very wonderful hard not to love that voice I didn't know of this till Sharon Corr did it with Jeff Beck, love the Red Shoes bit she had Jeff on. Wonderful poem loved Kate since Eric Idle had her on NBC show Saturday Night Live in 1977-78 season I was hooked by the 2 songs she played. Ruttles-"All You Need Is Cash" was a SNL spoof of the Beatles Idle did as well. RIP Mr.Beck we all miss you on this side on the pond.

[@patriciathewisher2315]

Incredibly beautiful. The song, the language and of course, Kate. X

[@DarWren]

Go raibh maith agat ❤️

[@patriciathewisher2315]

Kate with her usual excellence. She perfected the pronunciation for this song although not an Irish speaker. This is terribly beautiful. An ode to her Irish mum Hannah perhaps.

[@seangrogan3622]

Bhí grá mór againn do na hasail! Especially my donkey Rainbow, who loves this song by the way. She is also a woman of Ireland. Whever you see the word "ol" in Irish, you can be sure the word "ceol" is not far away.

[@colettecasey2529]

Thank you Ryan for playing this beautiful song Thank you Kate.

[@silaslangsyd]

Beautiful personified .

[@clintonslowey]

Love it ❤

[@Neptuneman07]

Very beautiful Traditional Irish/Celtic tune! Cheers!

[@123malichi]

wow........beautiful..............

[@lucianormncc29]

straordinario!!!!!veramente bellissima questa canzone ....bellissime immagini Pollice in alto...infinite stelle********************ciao...Luciano e Ninetta

[@BernadetteBerry-g1j]

Kate does a magnificent job x

[@bohsgerry]

england my lionheart,this song,army dreamers wuthering heights,hounds......what a gem.perfect pronounciation here.like Dusty and julie denham a gem.

[@owenshuck9067]

Thank you for this. Beautiful

[@ladylorc]

These images are so beautiful and combined with kate's voice they are wonderful.. 5*!!!

[@patriciathewisher2315]

Amazing performance by Kate Bush. Thx Kate. Maith thu! CCx

[@simplyron6359]

Beautiful from start to finish, top to bottom. Don't know if there's any Irish in me, but I hope there is.

[@1earflapping]

Besides her inimitable voice and great arrangement, she gives a straightforward rendition, not dragging it out. It sounds more like the complaint it is. Must be one of the shortest versions on KZbin.

[@Irish780]

Weithering heights still gives me chills

[@jamesdixon6294]

I was only familiar with this song through Jeff Beck. I'm sure he would have conceded Kate's version. Really fantastic, especially with the pictures of Ireland. Slainte!!

[@KrisHughes]

Thanks so much for including the lyrics and translation.

[@Symphonyofflowers]

You're welcome.

[@erdafruhling2478]

wie wunderschön, nordische Fraulichkeit pur, das ist Kate ja sowieso :-)..........Gänsehaut fürs Herz

[@stuartlakey4216]

Absolutely beautiful

[@alincrisan6824]

thak you for this song.A special voice,a special song marcel

[@Mondensohnmamo]

...eire is so beautiful...

[@neojabule]

thank you so much symphony

[@dobritaalmasi]

Beautiful music...and images!!! Thanks for sharing...all my stars!!

[@paty3529]

Wonderful; it touches my soul!!!! ;-)

[@maureenmartin4730]

Go halainn…. Go deas go deas . Maith an cailin❤

[@pellakilbane]

I love this song

[@irishelk3]

My island.

[@quitterier]

Ah Symphony, your video really underlines the purity of this graceful song :D. And, thank you for letting us the lyrics, both in Irish and in English ! :) I didn't imagined the lyrics were so moving.. All very subtive, like your work for this video, as martinekkes said..