Ah, sore was the suffering borne (Jones, set by (Samuel Barber)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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Translation © by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980)

Ach cer thinn a fulachtadh

Language: Irish (Gaelic)

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.

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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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

Language: English after the Irish (Gaelic)

Available translation(s): FRE SPA

Ah, sore was the suffering borne
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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

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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):

This text was added to the website: 2019-12-09
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Word count: 28