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Paddy Tunney - An Bunnan Bwee (The Yellow Bittern)

Sleeve Notes: An Bunnan Bwee (The Yellow Bittern) is my translation into English of one of the most famous Gaelic songs by the 18th Century Fermanagh poet and pedlar Cathal Bwee Mac Giolla Gunna. It seems Cathal found a yellow bittern frozen to death on the ice-covered shore of Louth Macnean in that county. He concluded it had died of thirst and, a noted tippler himself, composed this song of self-mockery in which he compares the life style of the bittern to his own. It is a song beloved in every part of Ireland where Gaelic is spoken and I have seen old men in Connemara shed tears when listening to the singing of it by the high king of sean-nos (traditional) singers, the Joe Heaney. In my translation I tried to retain the vowel stresses and internal assonance of the original Gaelic. This enable one to sign it naturally. Thomas McDonagh, one of the 196 martyrs, did a more literary translation of the song but it is difficult to sing. Along with being a poet, a pedlar and a tippler, Cathal Bwee was a mighty man with the fair-sex. He married a goodly number and was reputed to have seduced a great many more. We Irish love a vagabond. - Paddy Tunney, The Stone Fiddle: Traditional Songs of Ireland (1982) #irishmusic #traditionalmusic #irishsinging #folksong #folkmusic #learnirishmusic More information, news, and words at: www.tunneysongtraditiontrust.com