An Mhaighdean Mhara (The Mermaid) - Madelyn Monaghan

An Mhaighdean Mhara🧜🏻‍♀️ is the first Sean-nós song I ever learned as a kid! Though it is from Donegal, my dialect is not. (Well, towards the end my fadas get a little relaxed maybe😅) With this being St. Patrick’s Day week, Irish-American Heritage Month, Women’s History Month, and Seachtain na Gaeilge-the annual festival of celebrating the Irish language-The Mermaid felt like the perfect song to share.🇮🇪
P.S. Like my Sherpa chair and @anthropologie Sherpa vest? I recorded this on the first day in my new, freezing apartment back in February. It’s a wonder you can’t see my breath!🥶
#irish #stpatricksday #seachtainnagaeilge #mermaid #irishlanguage #gaeilge #irishtraditionalmusic

[@meganhenderson1715]

I absolutely love this song. Thank you!❤

[@M4DD1GAN]

I love your album with Cullen Vance. When might we get a collection of these primarily acapella amhráin tíreacha na hÉireann? I'd love to be able to playlist them, as a new Irish learner I find that the songs are a more powerful learning tool than any dictionary or app. :)

[@Kristen.9239]

Absolutely beautiful and also hauntingly lamentful
(Totally not crying at work right now ma’am)

[@barbkrienke8400]

So beautiful! ❤

[@ThomasMullaly-do9lz]

You feel it don't you young Miss.. good for you

[@-RONNIE]

Thanks for the song you did a great job on it 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@obadijahparks]

I love how sweet this is sung by you.

[@daveylocker8]

Love it!! Perfect vibrato.

[@curtisbrown3847]

Wow! Beautiful singing 😊

[@outoforbit-]

As an irish person, I think this song is more about the man who pursues the woman too quickly. Before she has had a chance to think and reflect and get to know the man, they are in a relationship.
So in some sense, she stops growing at that point and is in effect living his life. The seal skin representing the part of her he never got to know in his haste. (The woman in the attic). She goes back to recoup her previous existence as she is depressed as she is not been fully herself. If she were to come back, he would have to get to know the bigger part of her whom he hasn't seen yet.

[@ThomasMullaly-do9lz]

I sing Wexford like i mean it but my heart covers my crappy voice so others think I can sing