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Recordings
Libretto
Mise Éire
Poem by Pádraig Pearse
Music by Patrick Cassidy
Mise Éire
Sine mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra
Mise Éire
Uaigní mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra
Mór mo ghlóir
Mé a rug Cú Chulainn cróga.
Mór mo náir
Mo chlann féin a dhíol a máthair.
Mór mo bhrón
D'éag an dream inar chuireas dóchas.
Mise Éire
Sine mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra
Mise Éire
Uaigní mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra
I am Ireland
I am older than the Hag of Beara.
I am Ireland
I am lonelier than the Hag of Beara.
Great my glory
I who bore brave Cúchulainn.
Great my shame
My own children that sold their mother.
Great my sorrow
That crowd, in whom I placed my trust, decayed.
I am Ireland
I am older than the Hag of Beara.
I am Ireland:
I am lonelier than the Hag of Beara
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