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Gartan (Irish:
Gartán) is a
civil parish and
townland in
County Donegal, Ireland. The area is best
known for
being the
birthplace of Columba, one of the...
- was born to
Fedlimid and
Eithne of the Cenél
Conaill in
Gartan, a
district beside Lough Gartan, in Tír
Chonaill (mainly
modern County Donegal) in what...
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Gartan Mother's Lullaby" is an old
Irish song and poem
written by
Herbert Hughes and
Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil,
first published in
Songs of
Uladh [Ulster]...
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Gartan Lough (Irish: Loch Gartáin), also
known as
Lough Beagh South, is a
freshwater lake in the
northwest of Ireland. It is
located in
north County Donegal...
- may be
prone to evil and mischief. However, the
Ulster folk song 'The
Gartan Mother's Lullaby' also uses "sheevra"
simply to mean "spirit" or "fairy"...
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Mythology Joyce, P.W. A
Social History of
Ancient Ireland, Vol. 1, p. 271 "The
Gartan Mother's Lullaby"
published 1904 in The
Songs of Uladh,
lyrics by Seosamh...
- for
chorus and organ,
using two
traditional Irish tunes, St.
Patrick and
Gartan,
which Stanford took from his own
edition (1895) of
George Petrie's Collection...
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formed in the county's
distinctive U-shaped valleys, such as
Lough Beagh and
Gartan Lough in Glenveagh, and
Dunlewey Lough and
Lough Nacung Upper in the Poisoned...
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Retrieved 18
August 2024.
Denis Carroll, The Man from God
knows Where, p. 42 (
Gartan) 1995
Henry Boylan, Wolf Tone, p. 16 (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin) 1981 Paine...
- best for
words he
supplied to
traditional airs, such as My
Lagan Love and
Gartan Mother's Lullaby; his
verse was also set to
music by
Arnold Bax and Ivor...
