Ach cer thinn a fulachtadh tucad er chnes Meic Mhuire tinne leis a dubhachus do bhí uirruidh-si uime
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Confirmed with The Gaelic Journal, Dublin: the Gaelic Union, 1892. Included in Anecdota from Irish MSS., VI: Volume IV, old no. 41, June 1892. Page 134. At the Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, the Leabhar Breac manuscript is number 1230, 23 P 16.
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title [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 Kuno Meyer (1858 - 1919) , no title, appears in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry,, in Crucifixion, no. 2 ; composed by David W. Guion.
- Also set in English, a translation by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980) , no title, appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright © ; composed by Samuel Barber.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Kuno Meyer) , no title, appears in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry,, in Crucifixion, no. 2
- ENG English (Howard Mumford Jones) , no title, appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright ©
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Ah, sore was the suffering borne [ ... ]
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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 Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980), no title, appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title
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 ]
This text (or a part of it) is used in a work
- by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "The crucifixion", op. 29 no. 5 (1953), published 1954 [ voice and piano ], from Hermit songs, no. 5
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Kuno Meyer (1858 - 1919) , no title, appears in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry,, in Crucifixion, no. 2 ; composed by David W. Guion.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Sol Crespo) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
This text was added to the website: 2019-12-09
Line count: 4
Word count: 28