{"id":7877,"date":"2008-03-19T17:34:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7877"},"modified":"2010-06-30T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T16:29:20","slug":"ora%c2%b3-sa%c2%a9-do-bheatha-bhaile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7877","title":{"rendered":"\u00d3r\u00f3 ‘S\u00e9 do bheatha ‘bhaile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grey day. Listening to iPod shuffle. And on came \u00d3r\u00f3 ‘S\u00e9 do bheatha ‘bhaile” – you know, it’s a song I’d probably never seek out, because I have heard it enough in my childhood to last a lifetime. I have so much Irish crap on my iPod that I hear two notes of some jig or a half-note from a bagpipe – and I immediately roll my eyes and press “forward” – like: how on earth can there be so much Irish music on here? Who knew that The Chieftains wrote 25,000 goddamn songs? Don’t get me wrong. Love it. But every other song?? But whatever, I have a nice version of “\u00d3r\u00f3 ‘S\u00e9 do bheatha ‘bhaile” by The Cassidys – who can sometimes be a little bit “celtic” new age-y for me – (you know, that’s the trend where folks seem hell-bent on making Ireland gentle and good and feckin’ toothless<\/i>.) Yeah, well, \u00d3r\u00f3 ‘S\u00e9 do bheatha ‘bhaile’s got teeth. Doesn’t suck that Gr\u00e1inne Mhaol<\/a>is an ancestress of ours, and my sister is named for her.<\/p>\n

It’s good to remember we have teeth, from time to time. Not so bad to bite back once in a while.<\/p>\n

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\u00d3r\u00f3 ‘S\u00e9 do bheatha ‘bhaile,
\n\u00d3r\u00f3 ‘S\u00e9 do bheatha ‘bhaile,
\n\u00d3r\u00f3 ‘S\u00e9 do bheatha ‘bhaile,
\nAnois ar theacht an tsamhraidh!<\/p>\n

\u00d3r\u00f3 ‘S\u00e9 do bheatha ‘bhaile,
\n\u00d3r\u00f3 ‘S\u00e9 do bheatha ‘bhaile,
\n\u00d3r\u00f3 ‘S\u00e9 do bheatha ‘bhaile,
\nAnois ar theacht an tsamhraidh!<\/p>\n

‘S\u00e9 do bheatha a bhean ba l\u00e9anmhar,
\nB’ \u00e9 \u00e1r gcreach t\u00fa bheith i ng\u00e9ibhinn,
\nDo dh\u00faiche bhre\u00e1 i seilibh meirleach…
\nIs t\u00fa d\u00edolta leis na Gallaibh!<\/p>\n

T\u00e1 Gr\u00e1inne Mhaol ag teacht thar s\u00e1ile,
\n\u00d3glaigh armtha l\u00e9i mar gharda,
\nGaeil iad f\u00e9in is n\u00ed Gaill n\u00e1 Sp\u00e1innigh…
\nIs cuirfidh siad ruaig ar Ghallaibh!<\/p>\n

A bhu\u00ed le R\u00ed na bhFeart go bhfeiceann,
\nMuna mb\u00edonn beo ina dhiaidh ach seachtain,
\nGr\u00e1inne Mhaol is m\u00edle gaisc\u00edoch…
\nAg f\u00f3gairt f\u00e1in ar Ghallaibh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grey day. Listening to iPod shuffle. And on came \u00d3r\u00f3 ‘S\u00e9 do bheatha ‘bhaile” – you know, it’s a song I’d probably never seek out, because I have heard it enough in my childhood to last a lifetime. I have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13180,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions\/13180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}