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    Ceól ár sínsear / An tAthair Pádraig Breathnach do chruinnigh

    1923 edition

    Pádruig Breathnach’s Ceól Ár Sínsear of 1923, probably his most influential Irish-language publication, is a revised, expanded and through-paginated final edition of the volume which made its first appearance in 1920 as a hardback collection of the earlier seven penny booklets of the title. Confusingly, these seven had earlier been issued separately and as a single 1913 hardback volume under the title Fuínn na Smól, and had themselves incorporated many of the contents of Breathnach’s first Cnuasachd Bheag Amhrán booklets. The 1923 edition provided the words for his 1924 and 1925 Traditional Irish Airs collections of arranged melodies in staff notation. The three, comprising a substantial body of songs for voice and piano and for school choirs, would hold the field until the 1960s.

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    Ceól ár sínsear / An tAthair Pádraig Breathnach do chruinnigh

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    Caitilin Ni Uallachain [song: music and words]
    A Mhaire a’s a Mhuirnin [song: music and words]
    Maire Bheag na Gruaige Baine [song: music and words]
    Sean Buidhe [song: music and words]
    Teanga na nGaedheal [song: music and words]
    Druimfhionn Donn Dilis [song: music and words]
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    Mo Shlan go hEag [song: music and words]
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    Mo Mhaire [song: music and words]
    Ailliliu Mo Mhailin [song: music and words]
    Cailin na Gruaige Donne [song: music and words]
    Ar Maidin Moch [song: music and words]
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    Duan na Saoirse [song: music and words]
    Mar Mheath Uaim [song: music and words]
    Sin Traochta i nEinfheacht [song: music and words] (air: Cailin Deas Cruidhte na mBo)
    Casadh an tSugain [song: music and words]
    Capaillin Ban, An [song: music and words]
    Ailliliu na Gamhna [song: music and words]
    Bruach na Carraige Baine [song: music and words]

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