This is one of my favourite songs in Irish ever - or in any other language, come to that.
I first heard it in Dungarvan about 10 years ago. The singer, solo and singing without any accompaniment, was a surprisingly young (late teens - early twenties) lady from Connemara.
That they are being learned and sung by a new and vigorous generation is one of the remarkable things about Ireland’s tradition of singing the grand old songs in Irish: solo and unaccompanied was the traditional way,
Now those old songs