mna na heireann (women of ireland sheet music

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings.

I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc.

Celtic Sessions. Paddy Glackin (fiddle), Kevin Glackin (fiddle), Sean Og Potts (pipes, whistle), John Regan (accordion), John Wynne (flute), Tom McDonagh (bouzouki), Mark Kelly (guitar).

Women of Ireland.

Karen Ashbrook (hammered dulcimer, flute, whistle), Connie McKenna (vocals, guitar), Sue Richards (harp).

Celtoir Chalann also featured a singer Sen S, who was a tenor.

Over the next few years Id like to take some time off At that time Kate was approached by Donal Lunny to take part in an album of Irish music and to record a song with Irish lyrics, Mn na hireann.

In a May 1996 interview with Donal in the Irish music paper Hot Press, the writer Liam Fay comments that; for Lunny, the agreement of Kate Bush, with whom he had laboured before (most notably on her Hounds Of Love album), to come aboard was crucial to the realisation of the whole undertaking.

But Kate and I did have a couple of very nice phonecalls since we last worked together.

She had taken a year off from work of any kind and this was bang in the middle of it.

She opened herself to several weeks work by taking it on, maybe more than she bargained for.

I knew shed be good and she didnt give up until it was right.

Add to that how much she cares about what she does and the fact that she will not do something unless she feels she can give of her best.

She was as faithful to the pronunciations as she could possibly be.

It was with characteristic care and attention that she approached it.

Of course youll get people saying, Oh, youd know she doesnt talk Irish straight off.

No matter how perfect she gets it, shes not an Irish speaker.

Im sure Ma gave me a helping hand (Ma refers to Kates mother Hannah, who very sadly died in 1992.

This was scrapped, but you can see some of the material from it at the record companys website here.

In March 1998 a new album of Irish music released on the Celtic HeartbeatUniversal label, Celtic Heartbeat Collection 2 (catalogue number: UD 53122), also features Kates version of Mn na hireann.

The album also contains the Christy MooreBonoEdge collaboration North South Of The River, work by Grammy Award winning composer Bill Whelan, and a live version of She Moved Through The Fair by Sinead OConnor.

See here for details of yet another new compilation album, ist, which features Kates Mn na hireann.

He was a man for all seasons; a composer trained in the art music of Europe who immersed himself in the oral music tradition of Ireland.

Born in 1931, he was aware of the danger of traditional music disappearing during the 1950s, unless Irish people were reintroduced to it in a way that was meaningful.

At that time, trad music was confined mainly to the rural areas of the country.

One of the tasks he set himself was to find a suitable setting in which to present the music, without compromising it.

So he decided the best thing to do would be to put it in the same sort of atmosphere as classical music.

Some of the concerts given by Riada and Celtoir Chalann were recorded and are still available on disc, and these give some idea of the atmosphere of excitement.

The music is played with great verve, rhythm and feeling, and the personality of Riada shines through.

The repertoire was Irish dance music, airs and the compositions of Carolan and the older harpers.

Mna Na Heireann (Women Of Ireland Sheet Music