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The Shores of Lough Bran

from Quarehawk by Michael Walsh

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I learned this song from my uncle, Frank Mollohan. Lough Bran is a couple of miles from the Mollohan farm just outside Carrick on Shannon, County Leitrim where I’d spend my summer holidays as a child. The song was written by a Mr. Hill about another man called "Brock" who lived beside Lough Bran and worked there in a mill. The remain of his house and the mill can be seen by the lake close to the road between Carrick on Shannon and Leitrim Village. The idea for my Asturian friend Leticia González Menéndez and I to sing came about as we shared the story of our fathers leaving behind the rural life and their mother tongues and moving to the big smoke. Leti sings the verse in Asturian. Armagh born and now Manchester resident Ríoghnach Connolly sings a verse in Irish. Ríoghnach has been a great friend and source of encouragement over the last few years. She sang for the first dance at my wedding, for my father’ funeral and encouraged me to find my own voice. Yorkshire singer Bryony Griffith sings harmony on the last verse. On this track I sing and play the Bb Chinese Hulusi. It’s a gourd instrument my wife brought me back from Shanghai. I brought it into the studio and Michael McGoldrick enthused about it.

lyrics

The Shores of Lough Bran.
Sit you down loyal comrades with me for a while
Till I spend my last hours round Erin’s green isle,
So, fill up your glasses and we’ll drink hand to hand
For tomorrow I’ll be leaving my home at Lough Bran.

Go brách brách ní shiúlfaidh mé timpeall Chnoc an Fhornocht
Nó fán sean mhuileann álainn, An aít úd gan locht
Nó fa na gleanntáin glas’ aoibhinn ar ghnách liom ‘bheith ann
‘baint sásaimh as a úlra ata fa chladach Loch Bran.

(Translation) No more will I wander round Farnaugh’s green hill
And the place I love fondest was the bound by the mill
And the green fertile valley where so oft times I ran
To inhale those fresh breezes round the shore of Lough Bran.

Los mios pas queden solos nun faen más que llorar,
cola murnia y les llárimes que-yos funden el coral.
Pero si pa ayudalos voi tener que colar
llueñe de la mio Erin y el verdor de Lough Bran.

(Translation) My father and mother you will now hear them cry
While the tears and bewailing shall moisten their brow
But I will assist them please God if I can
Far far from lovely Erin and the shores of Lough Bran

4. On the in-coming morning I will bid you adieu
From Leitrim, Drumshambo and sweet Carrick too
And no matter what fortunes I meet far away
My thoughts will be with you by night and by day
My thoughts will be with you while life hold’s span
Far far from Lovely Erin and the shores of Lough Bran.

credits

from Quarehawk, released May 29, 2020
The Shores of Lough Bran (Trad Arr: Michael Walsh, Anthony Davies, Liz Hanks, Ríoghnach Connolly, Leticia González Menéndez, Bryony Griffith, Michael McGoldrick).
Vocals & Hulusi: Michael Walsh.
Vocals: Leticia González Menéndez, Ríoghnach Connolly, Bryony Griffith.
Keyboards: Anthony Davies.
Cello: Liz Hanks.
Produced by Michael Walsh & Michael McGoldrick
Mixed by Sam Proctor.
Mastered by Nick Cooke
Recorded and Engineered in:
Michael McGoldrick at Boxroom Studios Manchester.
Tom Wright at Powered Flight, Sheffield.
Sergio Rodriguez, Tutu Studios, Asturies.
Sam Proctor Music Production, Sheffield.
Rubén Bada, Asturies.
Anthony Davies, London.

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Michael Walsh Sheffield, UK

Manchester born, Sheffield based singer, fluter & poet. My music reflects growing up in the Irish community in Manchester my Yorkshire home & my love for the music of the Iberian peninsula. My flute playing is inspired by Irish traditional music from the west of Ireland. The album charts the last three years of my life. Celebration, loss, moving on & finding my own voice. ... more

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