Happy St Patrick’s Day! My grandmother Margaret O’Hanlon left Letterkenny for Canada and then New York! My mother Isabel was born in Brooklyn New York in 1924. I am second generation born in Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1956. My daughter Autumn was born in London, England in 1996! Proud to return to the UK and my Irish family! To kiss the green grass of Ireland like my mother and her sister and myself did when we found our family in 1987. For sure my Grandmother was looking down and her Irish eyes were smiling! ☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Hey! I would just like to say that's awesome that I some how found another sso player who shares my love for Irish and Celtic music! This is an AMAZING video also!
A few slight lyric errors but the most important one is "Lack of kind". It's kine, the old word for cattle. The question of parents was always could this suitor support their daughter? ( though she thinks it won't matter, and yet... ) But a lovely rendition and voice all the same!
I think it may be German but there is an old saying that the duties of a good wife are "kine, kinder, kirk" the cattle, the children, and the church. A saying which I admit is archaic and does not fit well in the 21st century, but in the context of She moved through the fair, and the agrarian society of the time, might well have been thought a truism.
I often see the word "kind" in the lyrics of this song, I didn't know what it meant. Thanks to you, I finally understand the meaning! Thank you very much.
It is typically graceful of her, and also thoroughly appropriate, that Loreena McKennitt gives credit to the poet who composed the lyrics. In the introduction to "Collected Poems of Padraic Colum" (1953) John L. Sweeney writes of Colum that "oddly enough he will be remembered by many who (as Yeats noted) have never heard his name. At least one of his poems "She Moved Through the Fair", with an air composed by the late Herbert Hughes, has so securely acquired the status of folksong that it has been collected as such."
Thank you for posting this. I am enchanted by this song, and am interested to hear different versions. I first heard it sung by Fr Sydney MacEwan and it rocked me, so gorgeous and so creepy all at the same time :)
@@josefinagarza241 I did as you asked. And she was lovely. I didn't care for the treatment but that's not to criticise her. I looked into her life and was saddened to read of how difficult and short it had been. I will be looking out for other works of hers now, thanks to you. The internet can do good stuff, can't it? :)
Happy St Patrick’s Day! My grandmother Margaret O’Hanlon left Letterkenny for Canada and then New York! My mother Isabel was born in Brooklyn New York in 1924. I am second generation born in Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1956. My daughter Autumn was born in London, England in 1996! Proud to return to the UK and my Irish family! To kiss the green grass of Ireland like my mother and her sister and myself did when we found our family in 1987. For sure my Grandmother was looking down and her Irish eyes were smiling! ☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Hey! I would just like to say that's awesome that I some how found another sso player who shares my love for Irish and Celtic music! This is an AMAZING video also!
A few slight lyric errors but the most important one is "Lack of kind". It's kine, the old word for cattle. The question of parents was always could this suitor support their daughter? ( though she thinks it won't matter, and yet... ) But a lovely rendition and voice all the same!
I think it may be German but there is an old saying that the duties of a good wife are "kine, kinder, kirk" the cattle, the children, and the church. A saying which I admit is archaic and does not fit well in the 21st century, but in the context of She moved through the fair, and the agrarian society of the time, might well have been thought a truism.
I often see the word "kind" in the lyrics of this song,
I didn't know what it meant.
Thanks to you, I finally understand the meaning!
Thank you very much.
Thanks love this song the kine info is priceless to know.God Bless Ireland and it’s people
It is typically graceful of her, and also thoroughly appropriate, that Loreena McKennitt gives credit to the poet who composed the lyrics. In the introduction to "Collected Poems of Padraic Colum" (1953) John L. Sweeney writes of Colum that "oddly enough he will be remembered by many who (as Yeats noted) have never heard his name. At least one of his poems "She Moved Through the Fair", with an air composed by the late Herbert Hughes, has so securely acquired the status of folksong that it has been collected as such."
Oh! What a sad song!
Thank you for posting this. I am enchanted by this song, and am interested to hear different versions. I first heard it sung by Fr Sydney MacEwan and it rocked me, so gorgeous and so creepy all at the same time :)
Try Sandy Denny omg, lovely
@@josefinagarza241 I did as you asked. And she was lovely. I didn't care for the treatment but that's not to criticise her. I looked into her life and was saddened to read of how difficult and short it had been. I will be looking out for other works of hers now, thanks to you. The internet can do good stuff, can't it? :)
Sinead O'Connor has a beautiful rendition.
Beautiful
Shivers
Is there a version sung in Gaelic? I would love to hear it.
Me too....
Belfast Child - Simple Minds
Kine us another name for cattle, not swine. Oops! Beautiful version of this song.
kind means 'origin, descent' which makes more sense
Thank you, it’ s a Amazon version, what is the first instrument that sounds in the sabe tune?
Sorry amazing
The first instrument could be a harmonium, organ, os accordion?
It is 'kine' not 'kind'. Kine, I believe, is another name for swine.
cattle
0:48
What is the musical instrument at the beginning ?
Long whistle I think
Irish flute
Kine means cows...
to be sure its good but the girl sinheade has the mark
Beg to differ. Sandy Denny's version was always my favorite. That raspy, breathy quality in her voice is hard to improve upon.
CELTIC not Irish
the tune was wrote by Patrick Colum and Herbert Hughes from Longford in Ireland,The melody is in Mixolydian mode