Who sings Mo Ghile Mear?
Who sings Mo Ghile Mear?
UCD Performing Groups YouTube A Dublin student choir’s rendition of the old Irish song “Mo Ghile Mear” (My Gallant Darling) is sure to strike emotion in anyone who listens to it and give you shivers down your spine. The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin (UCD) released their debut album in 2017, entitled “Invisible Stars.”
Do you know Mo Ghile Mear?
Like all other Gaelic poems of the time, Mo Ghile Mear would have been sung rather than recited; indeed, the melody is well-known today. Do you have any further information about this song?
Why did Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill write the song Mo Ghile Mear?
This is a traditional Irish song written by 18th-century poet Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill, to honor Prince Charles Stewart (“Bonnie Prince Charlie”). Mo Ghile Mear is his most famous poem. It is a lament or caoineadh that was written after the defeat of the Bonnie Prince Charles at the Battle of Culloden, Scotland, in 1746.
Who was Momo Ghile Mear?
Mo ghile mear is a term applied to the Pretender in numerous Jacobite songs of the period. O’Daly (1866) reports that many of the Irish Jacobite songs were set to the tune The White Cockade.
