BUACHAILL ON EIRNE

Created on 06/12/2011
Latest update on 10/11/2023

Artist: Liam Clancy
Author: traditional
Label: Vanguard
Year: 1965

Means Boy From The Erne River in Irish. Sometimes credited to (Scott) Robert Tannahill. Liam's version credits Sean O' Boyle. Published in 1915 as Buachaill Ui Neill.

Covers:

1979:

Boney M [tune of I'm Born Again; top 10 GER & NL]

1985:

Clannad

1985:

Loreena McKennitt

1998:

Chieftains

2005:

Corrs

2011:

Celtic Thunder

Same melody used in Come By The Hills, crediting William Gordon Smith at the end of the sixties, again covered by Liam Clancy (with his Brothers & Tommy Makem).

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