Irish Carols
This is WAY early, but please any suggestions for Irish carols to play at the Festive Season (preferably listed on thesession.org?
This is WAY early, but please any suggestions for Irish carols to play at the Festive Season (preferably listed on thesession.org?
Wexford carol, in the Oxford book of Carols. Think the Chieftains recorded it? Beautiful tune:
https://thesession.org/tunes/6500
Some of my favorites, that I end up playing every year:
Don Oíche Úd I Mbeithil
https://thesession.org/tunes/17019
Cuireadh Do Mhuire
I don’t find this one here in The Session, but here is where I got my setting from, sung and played by Róisín Elsafty and Ronan Browne:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u54V_AVwv3w
Oíche Nollag
https://thesession.org/tunes/14012
Coinnle An Linbh Íosa
https://thesession.org/tunes/15585
there was a cracker on an old Horslips album - ‘Rugh Maire Mac do Dhia’ [excuse my Irish if I mis- spelt it]
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Day-Dawn-Boys-Lough/dp/B000024G9I Boys of the Lough
Rug Muire Mac do Dhia
(Mary bore a son for god)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx9dx3-jEt
ok I did mis-spell it - but anyway the video wouldnt play.
Thanks. Only one I know is the Wexford Carol which is indeed an interesting tune. Will take note of suggestions …
Carols that aren’t actually Irish, but that work well at sessions (with the key I use at sessions):
Away in a Manger D
The Snow Lay on the Ground D
I Saw Three Ships D
Christ Was Born on Christmas Day G
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella G
Jingle Bells G
On This Day Em
We Three Kings Em
Gaudete Am
Printed source: "A Celtic Tin Whistle Christmas" by James Tanguay. Mel Bay, 2003.
While Shepherds Watched their Flocks - written by an Irishman Natum Tate.
Once in Royal David’s city - written originally as a poem by Dubliner Cecil Alexander.
Christmas in Killarney.
Carol of the birds (Curoo Curoo) - This one is very nice indeed.
Check out the 13 Kilmore Carols too. I think carol of the birds is one of the best known of them, but I’m not sure.
Ceàd Mìle Fàilte Ròmhat A Jesa is a popular children’s song at Christmas in Kerry.
Heather McD : Cecil Alexander, this is Mrs Cecil Alexander of Dublin who also wrote "All things bright and beautiful". The notorious verse "The rich man in his …, the poor man at his gate, he …….. , he ordered their estate." Can’t remember all the words but that verse isn’t used these days. (Excuse irrelevance).