Maybe this is a big ask, so I doubt anyone would want to this but it's worth a shot...

I was hoping that someone might be able to transcribe the lyrics, or direct me to where I might find them, for the album 'The Gloaming'. I hope some of you might have heard it on such a forum It's for a best album list, and that's my contribution but I can't add it to the list unless I can put the lyrics on the website.

So thanks anyway, even if no one has the time for such a thing.

Who is the artist? That's the biggest question.

Are the lyrics all in Irish? How many songs are we talking about here? A link to the album, or to the songs, would be helpful.

Redwolf

The Gloaming are Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Thomas Bartlett, and, Iarla Ó Lionáird. Their first album is called "The Gloaming".

Song 44 is a rendition of a poem by Domhnall Mac Carthaigh (Poem #44 in Dánta Grádha)

Aisling thruagh do mhear mise,
fa-deara an suan síthe-se;
amhra do chailg mo chridhe,
mairg re dtarla ar dtaibhse-ne.

Ní thig liom musgladh go moch,
ar shuan ní fhaghaim árach,
mo thruaighe nár hobadh inn,
codal uaire ní fhéadaim.

Ochán, truagh nach tig mh’annsa
i dtaibhse ar cuairt chugamsa,
an ghnúis tsoidhealbhdha, an ghruadh ghlan,
gidh tuar doimheanmna a deallradh.

Ní chreidim, ní chreidfe mé,
a teacht go bráth na breithe
im radharc arís, dar linn,
im amharc d’fhis ná d’aisling.

The Necklace of Wrens is a poem by Michael Hartnett, its Irish title is An Muince Dreoilíní, it should be possible to find on Google. Likewise
Saoirse, is a poem by Seán Ó Ríordáin. The lyrics to Samhradh Samhradh are scattered all over the internet and the song on The Opening Set, is Cois an Ghiorria (or Ghaorthaidh).

Ó Lionáird has adapted the Ó Ríordáin poem a bit, but I've heard that he follows it more closely on live performances, but alas I can't vouch for that.

The Gloaming is the band as well as the artist, all the songs are either instrumentals or in Irish. As the kind chap beow me pointed out a lot of them I think are adapted from old Irish poems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBkeDCCcPww

Thanks very much mo chara, I had tried to google the poems but either I just didn't look hard enough or wasn't looking in the right places!

Well I managed to get the lyrics all up on the website, didn't take that long because a lot of it is instrumental.

The short piece I wrote about The Gloaming that will go up on the website, is part of something that I wrote on my own list. If any of you like The Gloaming, again I assume many of you might given your interest in Irish culture, here is what I wrote about it -



https://medium.com/@Dedalus/my-favourit ... a66a70c236