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JeremyS · **Joined:** Mon 17 Oct 2011 1:33 pm **Posts:** 21

Could anyone please recommend good music in Irish please? I'm not really looking for the really traditional stuff... more like rock, alternative etc. I am also learning Welsh and one of my new favorite bands is Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog. They are more of an Alt-country type music and do almost all of their stuff exclusively in Welsh. I would love to find similar bands in Irish.

CaoimhínSF · **Joined:** Sun 04 Sep 2011 11:02 pm **Posts:** 1581

JeremyS wrote:

Could anyone please recommend good music in Irish please? I'm not really looking for the really traditional stuff... more like rock, alternative etc. I am also learning Welsh and one of my new favorite bands is Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog. They are more of an Alt-country type music and do almost all of their stuff exclusively in Welsh. I would love to find similar bands in Irish.

There are modern songs being created in Irish, and there is also a popular trend to create Irish-language covers of current songs. If you look at the thread which I just bumped up from last year, entitle "Avicii vs. Lurgan", you can get a link to a great cover song available on Youtube (and I've included the lyrics in that thread).

In my latest post on that thread, there's a link to another cover song. If you go to either of those songs on Youtube, you'll see links to a number of other songs created at TG Lurgan, which is an Irish-language college in Galway. If you click around among those videos, you'll find a number of other cover songs (some of which are better than the originals).

Several of the (young) teachers at TG Lurgan have created a new group called Seo Linn, which has started to create original songs as well. In fact, at the TG Lurgan site:
http://lurgan.biz/tg-lurgan-page
there are both cover songs and original songs available.

franc 91 · **Posted:** Mon 08 Dec 2014 7:52 pm

I've found this -

https://www.cic.ie/en/music/non-digital/nancy-bhan-cd

Bríd Mhór · **Joined:** Sun 28 Aug 2011 8:29 pm **Posts:** 2994

franc 91 wrote:

I've found this -

https://www.cic.ie/en/music/non-digital/nancy-bhan-cd

I love him :good:

This is his son singing lead here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0de-qUxHLBk

Bríd Mhór · **Joined:** Sun 28 Aug 2011 8:29 pm **Posts:** 2994

franc 91 · **Posted:** Mon 08 Dec 2014 10:48 pm

A Bhríd - c'était étonnant de les entendre chanter - Bhâton Rouge - ça c'est du Cajun

and there's this as well -

Taibhsí I Mo Cheann - Amhrán nuachumtha Gaeilge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3jzsKELXg

and there's The Coronas (were they on the list there?)

Bríd Mhór · **Joined:** Sun 28 Aug 2011 8:29 pm **Posts:** 2994

franc 91 wrote:

A Bhríd - c'était étonnant de les entendre chanter - Bhatôn Rouge - ça c'est du Cajun

I think it is a cover of the Garth Brooks song.

"Camus Aréir", has a heavy cajun beat.
I might be able to upload it. If it is already on youtube I can't find it.
It is here at: 2 hours 19 mins -
http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplay ... %3A0%3A%3A

(the other songs on that show -http://www.rte.ie/rnag/tequila-tire/programmes/2014/0601/621043-tequila-tre-d-domhnaigh-1-meitheamh-2014/?clipid=1590829)

franc 91 · **Posted:** Mon 08 Dec 2014 11:28 pm

(it's off topic but....) did you know that the word Cajun comes from Acadien - a former inhabitant of Acadie - the name the French gave to what became Nova Scotia. The English soldiers pushed the Acadiens out of Acadie and some of them managed to make it to Louisiana and then the Highland Clearances filled the place with Scots folk as a replacement. It's known as le Grand Dérangement.

Correction grâce à CaoimhínSF

Bríd Mhór · **Joined:** Sun 28 Aug 2011 8:29 pm **Posts:** 2994

franc 91 wrote:

(it's off topic but....) did you know that the word Cajun comes from Arcadien - a former inhabitant of Arcadie - the name the French gave to what became Nova Scotia. The English soldiers pushed the Arcadiens out of Arcadie and some of them managed to make it to Louisiana and then the Highland Clearances filled the place with Scots folk as a replacement. It's known as le Grand Dérangement.

C'est interestante.

CaoimhínSF · **Joined:** Sun 04 Sep 2011 11:02 pm **Posts:** 1581

franc 91 wrote:

(it's off topic but....) did you know that the word Cajun comes from Arcadien - a former inhabitant of Arcadie - the name the French gave to what became Nova Scotia. The English soldiers pushed the Arcadiens out of Arcadie and some of them managed to make it to Louisiana and then the Highland Clearances filled the place with Scots folk as a replacement. It's known as le Grand Dérangement.

En effet, au Canada c'était l'Acadie, a franc. Arcadia is a region of Greece.

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