Amhrán Mhuínse / The Song of Muínis - Líadan

[@misplacedoptimism3626]

To all the Irish (and Scots): Please, never stop learning and speaking Gaelic. You are in possession of a great treasure, don't lose it. Greetings from Belgium

[@raifteri]

This is our greatest tool to remedy the wrong done by the British.

[@ricemango7502]

@@raifteri I feel the British get too bad a wrap nowadays, they have actually helped our fledgling state quite a bit, while they still control the north people seem to forget about the good Friday agreement. And what you said may be the case but it is equally the Irish government and people's fault for the language getting to the state it's in today. The British aren't stopping people from learning the language anymore yet we're still losing speakers at an alarming rate.

[@seroma3516]

@@ricemango7502 Is trua é sin. Ach tá, tá sé suas le daoine nuair a chailltear an teanga🤷🏼‍♂️

[@madamboo8315]

tha mi dìreach air an aon rud a ràdh ( I have just said the same thing) ..... On another post x

[@relentless1989]

@@ricemango7502 will lucky for use down south, you only had to sell out Ulster to get the brits to be nice to use. while us in the North suffered for not wanting to leave Irish Ulster. are you talking about the peace agreement the brits where forced into by europe and USA? and lets be honest it would of been through in the bin by the brits but USA and Europe are bigger than britain so, forced

[@pckbread7543]

I have never in my life heard something like this, I'm in tears as I speak, I can't fully comprehend just how beautiful this is

[@vincentcoleman5732]

listen to nan tom teaimin

[@kathyborthwick6738LakotaEmoji]

Soul crying - Beautiful❤❤❤❤

[@ahahaha3505]

It's a pity I've only one thumbs up to give.

[@jenmason3475]

I come back to this over and over again

[@scaldedape6213]

What a voice. This is an area of our culture that we need to fight and fight and fight to preserve. Bless the singer/writer.

[@iamdbatatnight5600]

All schools should be a Gaelscoil and English taught as a subject ONLY!

[@fightinandirish]

@@iamdbatatnight5600 Not enough is being done to keep it alive, the efforts made by the government and education system are shallow. Naturally, it's up to folk to keep their traditions alive, not politicians. Hope to teach my children Irish some day.

[@xyzllii]

Agree.

[@oggioggi7915]

So called "Irish education" has been destroying Irish culture for decades.

[@eimearthebeamer]

@@oggioggi7915 explain please

[@ashfly]

This song was sung at my fathers funeral he was a proud Galway man. Beautiful and haunting. SLAINTE !!!

[@galwaytribesman9289]

Gaillimh abu

[@diillonmccullough4212]

SLAINTE MY CHARA GRAIM THU!!! FROM MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA ❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏💫💫🤩💫

[@colmgray]

RIP ❤

[@neilpitras5763]

Slainte from France. ✊

[@bustabloodvessel5327]

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h'anam dílis. 🙏🇮🇪

[@maryblundell850]

Truly go hálainn (beautiful). The singer, Síle Denvir is my college lecturer in Dublin. Is bean álainn í - a beautiful Lady

[@MadelynMonaghan]

The line “And if Seán Hynes is in Muínis, let it [the coffin] be made by his hand” absolutely destroys me every time. Her voice and inflection are incredible.

[@tamegomait]

Madelyn Monaghan any idea the singers name?

[@Cailleach26]

@@tamegomait it says below the lyrics, Síle Denvir

[@cathaltuairisg1242]

Síle Denver

[@juliannewiley4356]

@@cathaltuairisg1242 Denvir.

[@celinehynes3336]

Me too

[@christineadlard1376]

Such beautiful song I'm from Ireland to hear singing in Irish Gaelic fills my heart with joy and Irish pride long may we hear singing in Irish Gaelic it's our culture may it remain so God bless you Ireland 💚

[@adamlouie1503]

I played this the day my grandma passed. It really helped

[@muisire]

That was the dream of Douglas Hyde, Patrick Pearse and many other of the heroes who sought to restore Irish as the first national language. The Constitution prepared by De Valera in the late 1930s gave Irish priority over English but no practical steps were taken to bring that about. Somethings were done, however, such as making the teaching and the learning of Irish compulsory for all pupils in all schools. It was that policy which enabled me to become fluent in Irish. I am grateful for that.

[@Toirdealbhach-na-dTreabha]

Rwy'n gobeithio y bydd yr ieithoedd celtaidd yn adfer yn llwyr ryw ddydd

[@DonnK-rc4im]

African tribal drumming is necessary to really enjoy this

[@liambyrne591]

Time to get rid of Fianna fáil and fine Gael

[@user-dt6xf2uz8y]

Beautiful song. Your language is the roots of your culture. If you loose it you lose what defines you and yours as a nation and as a community. Don't let bureaucrats put you off your birth right or your heart's desire (for those who embrace your culture from abroad). It is not for politicians to give you the knowledge but for each of you to fully accept the responsibility to maintain your own identity. Some things are worth working for. Greetings from a Galego (North Spain) who has lived in Ireland for a long long time.

[@artseosamhogriobhta]

There's a loud and defiant courage to the words. Defying not nature but notions and fear that bring us nowhere. The sound of a brave woman, ready to wander where the darkness lies. Visiting or for good, there is no fear. Only preparedness and a moment for the beauty that remains.

[@jacklyons6502]

We owe it to never let this language die. Lest the words of this song and countless others will ring hollow till their death.

[@Troy_KC-2-PH]

Is maith liom é! Go hálainn é! Dia dhaoibh. Is mise Lábhrás Ó Fallamhain agus is Meiriceánach mé. Tá mé ag beagánín as Gaeilge. ♥️🇮🇪☘️🎶🎵🎻🎤

[@nom4857]

maith thu ! Dia leat leis an oibre!

[@pol5928]

Iarracht maith

[@phillydee67runningbear61]

Maith an fearr❤

[@mikescally1869]

I come back to this version from time to time and each time I do, I cry. This is such a wonderful song which tells the true story of the writer requesting to be buried in her own home place of Muínis. Alas it was not to be as she was buried agaist her wishes in the place where her husband came from. I was at a funeral about four years ago when I heard it first. It's beautiful, just so beautiful and I love this version.

[@maryquan5726]

Mike Scally o

[@andreleamons2857]

makes me cry 2

[@Reklawyrag]

A small wandering through an ancient cemetery and hearing the clamoring forlorn stories etched in stone!

[@dubgaa2511]

Agree with Mike totally, best version around really beautiful

[@maireadmulholland5996]

Perfection,górm mháith agat.

[@JoJO-px9fi]

Im crying my eyes out.....this is the most beautiful song iv ever heard!

[@brendanmccallion2350]

There is a real beauty that always seems to rise from the darkness within this song. Powerful.

[@arannea]

Dear Ireland, thank for this and for your wonderful music. The world

[@eimearthebeamer]

Ta fáilte romhat!

[@eimearthebeamer]

💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

[@theblackcelt]

there is a reason Ireland won the Eurovision more than any country

[@amokreutz]

i don`t understand even one word... but i love it so so much

[@SquirreleLIV]

It’s a lament from the death bed. She’s instructing for the wake and burial.

[@p4riah]

I could listen to this for hours. I'm listening to it on loop at the moment while I write an essay about traditional Irish music. :D

[@muisire]

It moves me to tears too but for no single person in any special way - the singer and the song are so wonderfully fused together during this remarkable recording that it gets my shoulders shaking with an overall sense of mortality and of the grief and loss for those family members and friends who have already passed on. This is stunning and may be the best lament I have ever heard...

[@claudialeon5798]

Sonidos tan suaves y voces tan hermosas!!! ideal para hacer un viaje con la imaginacion!

[@muisire]

Magnus Mckay: You are absolutely right and your response to this great lament is shared by many other people - it has had over 60,000 hits and counting...

[@neasanichualain791]

muisire

[@pecosina57]

My paternal grandparents from Sligo "had the Irish" as some would say. They stopped speaking Irish when they emigrated to Philadelphia in the late 1910's. They taught my dad and his sister their prayers in Irish in case their religion (Catholic) would ever be suppressed, banned and illegalized again. That is the only Irish my father had, and he recited his prayers in Gaelic on the day he died. The only Irish I heard from my nana was "wisha".

[@brokenglassesshaner]

hard to work out what "wisha" might mean - two things that come to mind are "is ea" a way to say "oh yes" or simply "yes" or i'm thinking a what's often still said some gaeltachtaí in galway is "muise" i actually don't know the spelling since it's technically not a word? it doesn't rerally translate but it's like a filler noise nearly .. in context - how are you .. ah muise i'm well... or if i'm telling a story you would say "muise" as if to show you're following me. do either of those make sense in the context your nana used it ? is teanga álainn í ár nGaeilge

[@brendancoultry3031]

Sligo is still there you know, or ta se ansin

[@michaelcarolan3117]

You can still learn the Gaeilge , go on line meet many many diaspora who crave their native blood . It’s in you , it never leaves , just plant As síol ( seed );

[@pecosina57]

@@brokenglassesshaner from what I can recall, she used it to say "oh well" or "ok" when we would pester her

[@pecosina57]

@@brendancoultry3031 and I have been, but it is hard to get there from here if you know what I mean

[@Marco-qh9kk]

I can feel every word of this song even if I can't understand any word of it. It's always in my mind when I need for it. Thanks

[@exsaxpommernjung]

I’d never heard bevore. Amazing. Is maith liom é. Go raibh mile maith agat (✍️🧔🏼 from Isle Rügen, NE-Germany)

[@oops4485]

I grew up in Dungarvan, beautiful to see this, thank you!

[@claoftheninesausages]

So did I, when did you live there? A great town, rich in all the good things in life.

[@eluegl7006]

I swear to gods this is my favorite song of the all time i cry even after all the time i listen to it

[@shredder9536]

Man up

[@boatman6865]

nocturnal melody also my all time favourite song, I commend your good taste

[@hotties3v3n]

😂

[@claddaghclare22]

Me too x

[@DarrianGreen]

And its Gaelic and it shared by both our nations who used to be united long live scottland and Ireland happy st.pattys day to all ladies and lasies

[@saulobrien9106]

Paddys*

[@Fighting_Irish184]

St Paddy’s Day or St Patrick’s Day NEVER St Patty’s day

[@billie1129]

it's saint paidraig so the abreviation is st-paddy's

[@pamaherne1851]

This is such a haunting but simple lament. I love it

[@dubgaa2511]

Beautiful voice best of this version, thanks for sharing Dublin Deirdre xx

[@arthurdixon3684]

I do not understand a single word of gaelic but the music tells the story Very sad and expressive; Beautiful!

[@siobhancleary3018]

Beautiful just like being back home I'm homesick !!!

[@truth2uguys]

Siobhan Cleary I'm homesick for Ireland and don't have a drop of Irish in me but I'm Catholic and that at least makes me Irish in soul! Erin go braugh!

[@KenRubenstein]

good lord.....this is so beautiful...

[@AKMCars]

Respect from Romania! This song give you chills 😳

[@MrRaglanroad]

The problem with listening to this is theres nothing I can listen to after that comes even close to it.

[@sargemcgyver]

From a continental European Celtic and Norse pagan, Irish fills me with happiness but also longing for the language we once had but lost. I hope Ireland always speaks Gaeilge ❤

[@GypsyWagonTV]

This gives me the goose bumps. So beautiful.

[@hempenasphalt1587]

This makes me cry... so lovely

[@OneDawkinsFan]

I won't travel to Connemara because I feel that I wouldn't come back... This is so beautiful!

[@theleadshoes]

And what would be so wrong with not coming back? :)

[@captainmoonlight768]

Trust me After a winter here you wont be long going back.

[@mbranagh5176]

Many thanks,muisire and for all the effort to provide the text and with translation as well! Just beautiful!

[@muisire]

@BlindObedienceBrutal Thank you. It made me shake with sobbing too, not with sadness, but with an almost primeval kind of joy... Where do such feelings spring from? Where do such feelings spring from...

[@keithmcintyre7815]

I love being irish love my country

[@muisire]

Thank you, 'annehochberg', for your words of praise and appreciation for one of my favourite recordings ever. To find the text in Irish and in English, click on the tag line, "This is one of my favourite songs in Irish ever - or in any other language, c...". The full text comment will open. Scroll down until you find what you are looking for. I feel sure you will like it.

[@robertjohnston1339]

Slainte for such a beautiful song of sadness Agus understanding. Our people are of the old ways and paths. Saoirse.

[@sileod2253]

I keep coming back to listen to this song. Amhrán den scoth, grma.

[@hiddenostrich]

Has anyone else noticed that the melody is very similar to The Lakes of Pontchartrain? I think it's so interesting how songs and melodies travel and change. Anyway this is gorgeous.

[@sotospeak415]

Another amazing song. They probably share the same time like "On Raglan Road" and "Fáinne geal an lae". A lot of old tunes had poems put with them.

[@leonardhurley5761]

Beautiful, moving beyond words.

[@KincadeCeltoSlav]

Holy Gods that was Beautiful

[@ivanoday4635]

Wonderful! So glad a dancer made this film! Costumes setting story editing music cameras choreography ensemble ... brilliant!

[@muisire]

@Nanomachinist Yes, you're right - words fail me when I listen to it. I am 72 years old but I do not mind admitting that I came close to shaking with emotional intensity as I prepared to post this clip. It has to be one of the tunes of glory...

[@artseosamhogriobhta]

Tá súil agam go bhfuil tú linn fós, a chara

[@artseosamhogriobhta]

Go raibh maith agat as an amhrán seo. Is aoibheann liom é

[@irelandserverferrersegura4021]

I LOVE Enya her family and Ireland ❤️🇮🇪🍀🌹🙏

[@maureenleydon6106]

Thank you for this haunting lament. It touches the soul with longing for what is lost.

[@timpani1950]

Astoundingly beautiful.

[@unseelie63]

That was so,so beautiful...thank you so much for sharing it!

[@jamesmurphy-walsh8966]

Goosebumps. I feel i was from Ireland in a past life !

[@musashidanmcgrath]

Your ancestors were. :D Murphy - one of the oldest recorded clan names. Walsh - Hiberno Norman. Even though it means Briton/foreigner, it is a name that has been in Ireland almost 1,000 years.

[@jamesmurphy-walsh8966]

@@musashidanmcgrath thank you for that and my name isn’t double barrelled Murphy is my mother’s maiden name and walsh my dads surname so both from each side. I can feel a true connection and it’s entrenched in my soul !

[@musashidanmcgrath]

@@jamesmurphy-walsh8966 time and distance don't break that connection, lad. I've been living in Australia these last 10 years listening to this music gives me goosebumps every time. It helps that one of my mates over here speaks our native language fluently. It's funny because Aussies haven't a clue what language we're even speaking. :D

[@jamesmurphy-walsh8966]

@@musashidanmcgrath ahh thanks for your positive words my friend! I hope Australia is treating you well !

[@josephinestaunton9301]

Beautiful Song beautifully sung....Could listen forever even though I can only understand some parts of it...shame .....Lovely.

[@butreally289]

Simply perfection!

[@ev_ing]

That's a wonderful caption, muisire. Thanks for the thoughts and the beautiful words of the song.

[@eluegl7006]

This song is so beautiful

[@dianafronaeus2113]

Listening and in my fantasy I can see my great, great grandfather Morgan Lee, farming on this island. The Island where he lost his wife and there baby boy, in the potato starvation. Today 200 years later, his family roots are to be found all over the world.

[@EmotionalContagion]

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[@dianafronaeus2113]

+Emotional Contagion Yes I know, we have our great grandfathers history....

[@josephflanagan6696]

You are one of the few Diana that has spoken the truth. Also shame on Irish people who wore the police uniform to help the English. 2016 they are making documentaries blaming it on the potato even though they were surrounding fields at harvest time with RIC , making sure the landlord got the food shipped to England. .even with all our education today we still cannot tell the truth. " best of wishes to you !.

[@MonaLisa-lu8zi]

How can one tell the truth.... That it was genocide or you facilitated it. It would be Hell (if you had a conscious).

[@AlexderFranke]

Very beautiful! While I am hearing this song, I am imagining an Ireland with Irish brought back thoroughly by the Revolution of the 20ies. Hebrew was on its way back at the same time when the Irish Freedom Fight was going on. How great would Ireland be with Irish spoken only by the Irish and with signs in Irish only from Dublin to Galway and Donegal to Cork!

[@raifteri]

Yes!

[@soldier2297]

Never going to happen now with all the "New Irish" coming in their thousand.

[@nicnaimhin2978]

@@soldier2297 Fight Globalism ! Leave the EU ! Beautiful song , beautiful culture.

[@Deperuse]

This is simply a treasure.

[@BoyWithOboy]

Liked the song right away and put it in a playlist a while ago, but not until now did I read the lyrics and was struck for real!

[@muisire]

@P4rish1: I'm the same and your message reminded me that I have not listened to it for a while. When my own funeral Mass is over I am going to have this played while the young men carry my coffin out of the church - I will be 75 in January and I need to plan such things!

[@xfmk9296]

muisire Happy 82nd birthday, to good health 👍

[@MonaLisa-lu8zi]

Have you a singer in mind?

[@boldertash]

Connaught truly is beautiful ❤❤

[@folksurvival]

Beautiful.

[@muisire]

I am glad you are learning Irish - it will be well worth the effort. Meanwhile I am very pleased that you liked this great world class folk song - I do not think it will ever be forgotten.

[@muisire]

Go raibh maith agat, 'Irishmanandproud, I have just listened to it and I have to agree. Måirtin brings even more greatness to an already great song. It is beyond believe that some unknown man or woman wrote these stunning words and that another unknown lifted it even higher with a magical melody.

[@keaaudio1]

another fabulous song from Liadan. I love this band

[@jackieshmueli1850]

With warmest thanks from a friend in Israel. Just Beautiful.

[@ricemango7502]

Get out of Palestine

[@nicnaimhin2978]

@@ricemango7502 Ignoramus, that happens to be their homeland , they were driven out after fighting occupation by the Romans!People such as you think , NO, I know better what the world needs! To set up yet another muslim state , - the world has too much freedom &democracy as it is! You don’t even realise that you are asking for your own destruction.Get educated as to the true nature of islam ,especially now as it penetrates ever more into the West . Love Irish traditional music.

[@marianlynch4829]

Very best of luck to Israel...from myself here in Ireland 🇮🇪

[@muisire]

AnCiotog: Yes indeed, I envy you your good fortune to be half Gaeltacht because it gives you a head start over people who learned Irish at school and have no direct link with any Gaeltacht. However, my school Irish has been an open sesame to so much that is great and magnificent like this wonderful song. I have lived in Wales since 1960 but my school Irish always served me well during years away from Ireland. The riches that Irish offers are a fair reward for learning it well. Go n-éirí leat!

[@naomiseraphina9718]

Ta amhran alainn draiochtuil e sin!! Nil focail ceart agam e sin a ra... Beannachtai oraibh, agus go maire an spiorad na hEireann go deo!

[@patricktobin2820]

@gisela posch: Your words of appreciation and of thanks say exactly what I felt the first time I ever heard this myself - it is one of the most remarkable elegies I have ever read or heard. I am so very grateful now to the Irish government who forced that old and largely despised Irish Gaelic down my very reluctant throat during all my years (1944 - 1956) at school in my native land. It was only later, after I had emigrated to Wales and had begun to learn Welsh, that I realised what a priceless and enduring treasure that old Celtic language would eventually turn out to be.

[@annecasey7662]

my grand Aunt wrote this beautiful lament.

[@terencemagee]

Ireland´s ´Miserere´, just as hauntingly moving. Sure Mozart would have loved it

[@nicholas23nyc]

I had the good fortune to travel with Liadan when they came to New York with the Chieftain's.

[@richgouette]

wow..sounds cool

[@emilvansteenwijk]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@marcyrak]

Love Irish music, very beautiful images too. Hugs, Marcy ✿

[@martintrish1]

12 dislikes? Sometimes I just worry about 'people'. Really?...Are 'you' jealous that you can't carry a tune; or that 'you' don't have a georgeous, and amazing voice...Go listen to some 'pop artists or headbanger music;' and take an aspirin or two; and then listen to some beautiful music...

[@AnFilioctBoct]

+...they may have hit the wrong button...nobody can be that insensitive...

[@inindian]

Maybe they just don't like it! Personally, I love it.

[@SimonOak]

Haha, 28 dislikes now. See it as a compliment. No big deal. Thank god we don't all have the same taste!

[@SOUNDsculptures]

Maybe it's too modern for some folks' ears. Sean nós, as pure drop, shouldn't really be accompanied, not even with meditational strings, which may be reason enough for someone not to like this - though this is pleasant to hear. Who knows or cares why people hit up the dislike button, we will never know!

[@fiftyfive16]

British...

[@lantern1083]

One of the most mellifluous voices I have ever heard. Such perfection.

[@p4riah]

Glad I reminded you! It's a great piece. And this would indeed make a wonderful piece of music for a funeral. I've planned out music that I want at my funeral, and I'm only 24! People find it strange. :D But I don't. It's almost like...choosing the music to say something to the people who would be attending. That's why I've mostly picked Triumph of the Cross and Resurrection music. This one's certainly a contender, though.

[@stormancatcroga593]

Go hiontach...agus...Go hálainn é!

[@claddaghclare22]

Tears streaming, full of tingles.

[@mairinloftus]

Tá an tamhrán seo tharr barr. Tá mé mílte mílte as Muighnis, ach chaith mé bliannta ann a' fás. Cuireann an t'amhrán uaigneas mór orm.

[@michaelcarolan3117]

Just simply beautiful , fior álainn

[@KaqaktENT]

i agree ! i was left speechless.. its just so perfect in so many ways and the history behind it makes it even more special! !

[@leftcentrerightg8523]

This is beautiful. There's nothing else to say.

[@muisire]

padyboy86: your response is just what mine was the day I first heard it when I played their extraordinary CD 'Irish Traditional Music and Song'. I am still unable to fully take in this amazing Irish song from Connemara, a song that has no known author for the words or composer for the melody. I put this song alongside Bach and Mozart and Schubert for its supreme grasp of what is in the heart of human beings, women and men alike. Pride in Ireland - yes indeed.

[@georgiasmith9672]

This type of singing reaches right into your very core lthink it is part of being Irish because it makes me very emotional

[@claytonschase]

Thank you for sharing

[@jaredchandler8962]

Sin í an amhránaíocht Ghaelach is áille dár chuala mé riamh! Go raibh maith agat as é a chur ar fáil dúinn.

[@tomkiely7274]

Was it , Shakespeare who said: Full many a 🌹 is born to blush unseen etc I love it. No cheol thu!

[@AnaJil]

Incredibly beautiful voice... Nice melancholic song... The last line made me cry... Many thanks for posting this video and for the wonderful translation! Thanks so much my Irish friend for sharing ♫♫♫♫♫

[@patricktobin2820]

@Pam Aherne: Yes indeed, it is one of my favourite songs in any genre and in any language and yes, I enjoy listening to songs from all parts of the world - even when I do not understand a single word. This lament certainly ticks all the boxes that I can think of...

[@franciestokes7121]

Patrick Tobin thank you patrick for the link👍

[@celticdw1983]

Beautiful!

[@fergaloceallaigh3677]

The strings with voice at 3:10 on :o This piece is perfection. But (and no slight to the other singers) it should have been sung solo till the end. Hats off to the singer and the arranger. Beautiful.

[@richgouette]

I've got to think(in my limited American fashion) that folk who are born & bred Irish and love Ireland, must find it very difficult at times to not be there

[@PaulMuzik]

It's our land, it was taking from us all we want is our land and cluture back

[@bridgettetoback7917]

You are a moran

[@babyg_7141]

You have no idea Especially when something in your chest pulls you to it and the language is like a puzzle in your life My family is from Ireland but I'll be going back becauses that's where I belong

[@danielinnicg2114]

l went to work away for 6 months abd physically threw up everyday, prayed for rain, cried at father ted😂 doctor said l was homesick im never leaving here im gonna live and die here

[@rayhammond536]

Tá an amhrán seo thar a bheith álainn agus an guth tagtha ó neamh. Beautiful lament and a voice from heaven.

[@BAC1954]

Hi, cuireann an tamhrain seo i gcuimhne dom ''The Rocks of Bawn. Go raibh maith agat , ta se go hailinn muise.

[@BlindObedienceBrutal]

Wow, that made me cry ... what is it about this song? Who can even explain the beauty of it?