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Òran na Cloiche ("Song of the Stone") is a Scottish Gaelic song, [1] written by poet Donald MacIntyre (Scottish Gaelic: Dòmhnall Mac an t-Saoir), also known as the Paisley Bard (Scottish Gaelic: Bàrd Phàislig). It celebrates the return of the Stone of Destiny to Scotland, which was retrieved from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1950 by ...
"Latha Math" (English: Good day or Greetings) is a single from the Scottish Gaelic group Mànran. The song was written by Norrie MacIver, who was the band's singer until he left in December 2015. The single was released in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2011 as a digital download.
Recovery is the third album by Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig, released in 1981.The album deals with the social history of the Scottish Gàidhealtachd, mirroring a renewed sense of cultural and political identity within the Scottish Gaelic community.
There is very little in it today of what I composed. The girl in the song today is called Màiri, but the one I made the song for was Magaidh – Magaidh NicLeòid from Lochmaddy." [33] Like other Scottish Gaelic and Welsh poetry from World War I, the song expresses the futility and human destruction inherent in war. [34]
An album of Kennedy's original Gaelic songs and settings of 20th- and 21st-century poets was released early 2017. This was followed in 2019 by Glaschu: Hometown Love Song, a collection of Gaelic songs celebrating Glasgow, including poetry readings of works by notable Gaelic poets such as Derick Thompson by Bill Paterson and her sister Wilma ...
Gaelic music (Irish: Ceol Gaelach, Scottish Gaelic: Ceòl Gàidhealach) is an umbrella term for any music written in the Gaelic languages of Irish and Scottish Gaelic. [1] To differentiate between the two, the Irish language is typically just referred to as "Irish", or sometimes as "Gaeilge" (pronounced "gehl-guh"); Scottish Gaelic is referred to as "Gàidhlig" (commonly pronounced as "GAH-lick").
The album contains eleven songs of Irish, Scottish, and English ballads, sung in Irish (Gaeilge), Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), and English. There are two pieces of puirt à beul, or mouth music, sung in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, five songs sung in Irish and English, two Breton tunes, one Irish dance tune, and a contemporary song in English. [3]
"Brochan Lom" is a Scottish Gaelic nonsense song about porridge.The tune is popular and appears frequently at Scottish country dances and ceilidhs.It falls into the category of "mouth music" (Puirt a beul), used to create music for dancing in the absence of instruments.