Songs are great for learning a language and I love to sing Christy Moore and Dubliners songs around the house, but who are the gaeltacht singers with really large recorded collections of songs that can be sung unaccompanied (i.e. sean nós and ballads)?
I found a few singers with one album but what I'm looking for is singers like Joe Heaney, with almost six hours of audio (half singing in Irish, half explaining in English) plus transcript and translations here:
https://www.joeheaney.org/en/category/a ... -ngaeilge/Plus a double CD all in Irish, and another three CDs half in Irish. That's what I need.
Are there any other gaeltacht singers with a catalogue like this?
I found one CD of Darach Ó Catháin and one of Caitlín Maude at:
https://siopa.gael-linn.ie/sites/gael-l ... c/sean-nosI've little hope for Caitlín. She sadly died young and that one CD is only partly songs (rest is poetry).
Darach looks like he should have a lot of songs recorded but I only found that one Gael Linn CD, and it's only 35 minutes long. Youtube has four songs by him.
Darach, Caitlín, and Joe are all natives of Connacht, which is the dialect I'm trying to learn (but do mention singers from other regions, so this thread can help other learners in the future).
There's a lot of videos on the TG4 Trad channel on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgfCO6 ... 4TQ/videosBut I don't know the dialects or "purity" of their Irish, and there's neither transcript nor translation.
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