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Wednesday 29 June, 2005 [18:52]
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Airs, Ballads, Ditties, Folksongs, Hymns, Jigs, and Reels of Ireland |
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This site is largely dedicated to traditional music. All of these songs are traditional songs in Gaelic. |
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Here are a few of the traditional Irish songs I have learned and/or collected. Many of them are from the Ulster province in Ireland and are written in that dialect. I will be adding to this list as time allows. If you don’t have any Irish at all, either have an Irish speaker help you with the lyrics or begin taking Irish classes. I would recommend the latter choice, because to fully appreciate these songs, you need to understand the history, culture and language that formed them. |
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Welcome to Amhrán Gaelach, the first ever collection of Irish Language song texts on the Internet. Amhrán Gaelach (originally called the Gaelic Song Archive) first went up in early 1995, and has never been down for more than a few days since then. The archive originally contained Scots Gaelic and Manx Gaelic songs as well, but I decided fairly early on to concentrate on Irish, and the Scots Gaelic and Manx songs were removed in 1996. In addition to texts, many of the songs also have their basic tune notated in ABC format. The notation should only be considered a rough guide, as it is impossible to record the nuances of good Irish traditional singing in standard musical notation. |
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BODLEIAN LIBRARY BROADSIDE BALLADS
The Bodleian Library has unparalleled holdings of over 30,000 ballads in several major collections. The original printed materials range from the 16th- to the 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitised copies of the sheets and ballads available to the research community. |
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