Here are recordings of songs in the three different flavours of Gaelic: Manx (Gaelg), Irish (Gaeilge) and Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig). Your challenge is to identify which Gaelic is which.
Here are recordings of songs in the three different flavours of Gaelic: Manx (Gaelg), Irish (Gaeilge) and Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig). Your challenge is to identify which Gaelic is which.
I’m going to guess Scottish, Irish, and Manx respectively.
Scottish, Manx, and Irish is my guess. (Plus a bit of Latin, of course. 🙂
I would go with the first one being Scots Gaelic on the basis that I recognise the tune and it belongs to a Scottish folk song!
Scottish, Irish and Manx say I.
One is Irish. The song is Mo Mhadadh Beag (My Little Dog), a lament for a dog by Seaghán Bán Mac Grianna. The recording comes from Gearóidín Bhreathnach’s sean-nós class at Oideas Gael in Donegal in Ireland in 2015.
Two is Scottish Gaelic. The song is Seo mar Rachinn Fhèin is Thu (This is How You and I Would Go), a song about elopement, and it comes from Mary-Ann Kennedy’s Gaelic Song and Tradition course Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on the Isle of Skye in 2013.
Three is Manx. I don’t remember what the song’s called, but I recorded it at a singing workshop during the Cooish in the Isle of Man in 2009.
Ned is correct about the about the tune in the first clip – it is a variant of the tune for the Scottish song Green Grow the Rushes-O. But tunes get around – and there is plenty of Scottish musical influence in Donegal in particular.
The Manx tune is known (in English) as The Good Old Way.