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Chuireas ceol leis an seana Aisling seo a scríobh an file Aodhgán Ó Rathaille .
Mo bhuiochas le mo sheana chomharsan, fear uasal an léinn ,Pádraig Ó Héalaí a chabhraigh liom leis an tseana Ghaolainn


Aodhagán Ó Rathaille is credited with creating the first fully developed Aisling poem where Ireland is portrayed as a beautiful woman who despairs of the current state of affairs and predicts an imminent revival of fortune, usually linked to the return of a Stuart King to the English throne.
This style of poetry became a standard in Ireland, where it was dangerous to speak overtly of politics, but a poem disguised as a love song could reveal the singer's and listeners' true feelings. His best-known and most popular poem is Gile na Gile , which has been called one of the miracles of Irish literature composed roughly around the time of the 1715 Jacobite rebellion. The poem has been translated by Seamus Heaney as The Glamouring
My father and Seamus Heaney became lifelong friends after the poet first visited West Kerry.

I love this ancient aisling and set it to music as I had never heard it sung

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from Gan Tionlacan / Unaccompanied, released April 8, 2020

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éilís kennedy Dingle, Ireland

Singing , writing , composing ,learning, teaching.
,Amhráin , Béarla & Gaelainn from the South-West of Ireland.

New Album 'So Ends this day' out now

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