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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation © by Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan (1900 - 1991)

Truagh mo thuras ar Loch Dearg
Language: Irish (Gaelic) 
Truagh mo thuras ar Loch Dearg
a Rígh na gceall is na g-clog,
Do caoineadh Do chneadh is Do chréacht,
's nach dtig déar tar mo rosc.

Gan súile fhliuchadh a ruisg
iar ndéanamh gach uilc dá mhéeid,
le croidhe nach n-iarrann acht síth,
mo thruagh, a Rí, cad do dhéan?  

Gan tuirse croidhe, gan mhaoith,
gan doilgheas ag caoi mo locht;
níor shaoil Pádraic, ceann na gcliar,
go bhfaghadh sé Dia mar so. 

Aon-mhac Calphuirn ós dá luadh -- 
och, a Mhuire, is truagh mo chor!  -- 
's nach feacaidh an feadh do bhí beo
gan lorg na ndeor ar a rosg. 

I gcaraidh chumhang cruaidh cloch,
d'éis a ndearnas d'olc is d'uaill, 
och, is truagh nach faghaim deor,
is mé adhlaicthe beo san uaigh. 

Gan éadach, ar bheagán bró,
a cholann do-ni gach olc,
go h-ifrionn má itá do thriall
is beag liom do phian a-nocht.

Biaidh gártha troma, Lá an Luain,  
againn, idir thuaith is chléir; 
an deor nach faghthar in am
uirre thall ní bhíonn spéis. 

A Aoin-mhic lér cumadh cách,
's nár sheachain bás na dtrí ndealg,
le croidhe nach cruaidhe cloch,
is truagh mo thuras ar Loch Dearg. 

Confirmed with Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge / The Gaelic Journal, ed. by fr. Eugene O'Growney, Dublin, The Gaelic Union, March, 1893, pp. 190 - 191 : volume IV, old no. 44.

Manuscript Source: National University of Ireland, Maynooth: Manuscript C88, page f24v.


Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 13th century ) , "Truagh mo thuras ar Loch Dearg" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation by Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan (1900 - 1991) , appears in The Silver Branch, copyright © 1938 ; composed by Samuel Barber.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Douglas Hyde) , no title [an adaptation]


Researcher for this page: Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website: 2016-06-27
Line count: 32
Word count: 192

At Saint Patrick's Purgatory
Language: English  after the Irish (Gaelic) 
Our translations:  FRE
Pity me on my pilgrimage to Loch Derg!
 [ ... ]

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   S. Barber 

S. Barber sets stanzas 1-2, 8

This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.

Text Authorship:

  • by Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan (1900 - 1991), appears in The Silver Branch, copyright © 1938 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Truagh mo thuras ar Loch Dearg"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "At Saint Patrick's Purgatory", op. 29 no. 1 (1953), published 1954, stanzas 1-2,8 [ voice and piano ], from Hermit songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Au purgatoire de Saint Patrick", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website: 2004-01-18
Line count: 32
Word count: 93

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