GRÀDH GEAL MO CHRIDH'
Created on 15/01/2026Latest update on 15/01/2026
Artist: Mary MacInnes
Author: Kenneth MacLeod/Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
Label: wax cylinder
Year: 1908
Gaelic/Scottisch folk song collected by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser from Mary MacInnes on the isle of Eriskay (Outer Hebrides). Her wax cylinder recording is preserved at the Library of the University of Edinburgh. Marjory arranged the tune for piano and gave the song English lyrics and an English title: An Eriskay Love Lilt, providing her co-authorship in 1908, while Kenneth MacLeod wrote the Gaelic lyrics.
Covers:
- 1919:
Frank Mullings [for Columbia]
- 1923:
- 1924:
- 1930:
- 1938:
Paul Robeson [as An Eriskay Love Lilt]
- 1964:
Seekers [idem]
- 1976:
Nana Mouskouri [idem]
- 1977:
Corries [idem]
- 1977:
Roger Whittaker [idem]
- 2000:
Seamus Kennedy [as Bheir Me O]
- 2025:
Mary Chapin Carpenter [with two Scottish Women, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart]
