[Clandillon, Seamus / Hannaga, Margaret].

“Londubh an Chairn” Being Songs of the Irish Gaels. In Staff and Sol-Fa / With English metrical translations. Edited by Maighread Ni Annaga agus Seamus de Chlanndioluin.

First Edition. Volume I (All Published). London / Oxford / Edinburgh etc., Published for the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust by the Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1927. Quarto (21.5 cm wide x 28.2 cm high). XII, 36, 150 pages [with scores and notations]. With the often missing Errata-Leaf. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

With the printed dedication:
″To the Memory of The Rev. Richard Henebry, Ph.D., an ardent champion and an able exponent of the Music of the Gael, this book is respectfully and affectionately dedicated”.

With 75 Songs and also with 75 explanations in detail regarding the origin/history of each song.
The Index lists the 75 songs in gaelic and english and the notations with scores and text are also bilingual in gaelic and english !

Includes for example the following songs:

Over the Hills and Far Away / The Farewells / The Fair Little Branch / The Old Brick of the Deisi / The Pretty Girls of Loughrea / The Little Bench of Rushes / The Dark Women of the Glen / Beside the Blackwater / For Ireland I’d not tell her name / The Fox’s Conversation / The Song of the Black Potatoes / The Connerys / The Munster War Song / The Blackbird and the Thrush / Lament for Owen Roe O’Neill / By the Banks of the Lee, as at eve I wandered / Slieve-na-mon / The Maid of the Branching Tresses / The Jail of Clonmel / The Faithful Brown Dhrimeen / By the Side of Killoran / The Will of Turlough’s Pat / The Little Field of Barley / Teig a Dhaw Haov / Erin / The Airy Wee Hill of Kilmurray / Dreaming of Thee / Sean de Hore’s Repentance / etc. etc.

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Catalogue Irish History Two – Origins of Irish Identity · Gaeilge – Rare · Gaelic · Irish Ballads · Irish History – Rare · Irish History of Music · Irish Music · Music – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32180AB

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