Well, I thought I’d like to share one more piece by Alan Stivell with you, and this time it’s not just a solo harp. I believe this is actually his most popular song and is the title song of his 1995 album which is also called Brian Boru and is quite eclectic in terms of music styles and instrumentation on it.
If you don’t know who Brian Boru was, to sum it up shortly, he was a very famous high king of Ireland and the ancestor of the O’Brien dynasty.
The song is bilingual and, as far as I know, also features Maire Breatnach, and she sings in Irish and Stivell in Breton.
Here you can find a
and this website credits someone with the username mhwombat as the author of the translation.
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