Author: Joseph Campbell (1881-1944)

Seosamh MacCathmhaoil

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Irishry
The Gilly of Christ
The Mountainy Singer

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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A cradle-song (Sleep, white love, sleep) (from The Mountainy Singer) [x]
G. Peterkin: Sleep, white love

A night prayer (Pray for me, Seachnal) (from The Mountainy Singer) - A. Scott [x]
As a white candle (As a white candle) (from Irishry) - D. Parke [x]
As a white candle (from Irishry) [x]
D. Parke: As a white candle
S. Dillon, F. Hart, H. Haufrecht, H. Roberton, P. Edmonds: The old woman

As I came over the grey, grey hills (As I came over the grey, grey hills) (from The Gilly of Christ) - A. Bax, F. Hart [x]
As I came over the grey, grey hills (from The Gilly of Christ) [x]
A. Bax, F. Hart: As I came over the grey, grey hills

As I rode down to Gartan fair (from The Mountainy Singer) [x]
H. Harty: Black Sheela of the silver eye

At morning tide (At morning tide ) (from The Gilly of Christ) - F. Hart
At morning tide (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart: At morning tide

Beam and shuttle seem to know (from Irishry)
G. Peterkin: The journeyman weaver

Black Sile of the silver eye (As I rode down to Gartan fair) (from The Mountainy Singer) [x]
H. Harty: Black Sheela of the silver eye

Black Sheela of the silver eye (As I rode down to Gartan fair) (from The Mountainy Singer) - H. Harty [x]
By a wondrous mystery (By a wondrous mystery ) (from The Gilly of Christ) - F. Hart
By a wondrous mystery (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart: By a wondrous mystery

Cherry Valley (In Cherry Valley the cherries blow ) (from The Mountainy Singer)
R. Quilter: Cherry Valley

Christ, wandering with the Twelve (Christ, wandering with the Twelve ) (from The Gilly of Christ) - F. Hart
Christ, wandering with the Twelve (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart: Christ, wandering with the Twelve

Every shuiler is Christ (Every shuiler is Christ ) (from The Gilly of Christ)
A. Scott: The shuiler

Every shuiler is Christ (from The Gilly of Christ)
A. Scott: The shuiler

Fill me, O stars, with a golden tune (Fill me, O stars, with a golden tune) (from The Mountainy Singer) - R. Newman [x]
Fill me, O stars, with a golden tune (from The Mountainy Singer) [x]
R. Newman: Fill me, O stars, with a golden tune

Go, ploughman, plough (Go, ploughman, plough) (from The Mountainy Singer) - H. Haufrecht [x]
Go, ploughman, plough (from The Mountainy Singer) [x]
H. Haufrecht: Go, ploughman, plough

Harvest song - M. Mulliner [x]
He staggered thro' the burning street (He staggered thro' the burning street ) (from The Gilly of Christ) - F. Hart
He staggered thro' the burning street (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart: He staggered thro' the burning street

I am the gilly of Christ (I am the gilly of Christ ) (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart: I am the gilly of Christ

I am the gilly of Christ (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart: I am the gilly of Christ

I am the mountainy singer (I am the mountainy singer ) (from The Gilly of Christ) - F. Hart
I am the mountainy singer (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart: I am the mountainy singer

I follow a star (I follow a star ) (from The Gilly of Christ) - F. Hart
I follow a star (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart: I follow a star

I heard a piper piping (I heard a piper piping) (from The Mountainy Singer) - A. Bax, G. Peterkin [x]
I heard a piper piping (from The Mountainy Singer) [x]
A. Bax, G. Peterkin: I heard a piper piping

I love the din of beating drums (I love the din of beating drums) (from The Mountainy Singer) - G. Peterkin [x]
I love the din of beating drums (from The Mountainy Singer) [x]
G. Peterkin: I love the din of beating drums

I will go with my father a-ploughing (I will go with my father a-ploughing ) (from The Mountainy Singer) - I. Gurney, M. Mulliner, R. Quilter
I will go with my father a-ploughing (from The Mountainy Singer)
I. Gurney, M. Mulliner, R. Quilter: I will go with my father a-ploughing

I wish and I wish (I wish and I wish ) (from The Mountainy Singer)
G. Peterkin, R. Quilter: I wish and I wish

I wish and I wish (from The Mountainy Singer)
G. Peterkin, R. Quilter: I wish and I wish

In Cherry Valley the cherries blow (from The Mountainy Singer)
R. Quilter: Cherry Valley

Kitty, my love, will you marry me? - E. Deale [x]
My father and mother were Irish (from The Mountainy Singer)
H. Hughes: The ninepenny fidil

My fidil is singing (My fidil is singing) (from The Mountainy Singer) - G. Peterkin [x]
My fidil is singing (from The Mountainy Singer) [x]
G. Peterkin: My fidil is singing

My Lagan love (Where Lagan stream sings lullaby) - H. Harty
Night-Piece (Fill me, O stars, with a golden tune) (from The Mountainy Singer) [x]
R. Newman: Fill me, O stars, with a golden tune

Now in the tomb is laid - V. Persichetti [x]
Pray for me, Seachnal (from The Mountainy Singer) [x]
A. Scott: A night prayer

Sleep, o babe, for the red bee hums
H. Hughes, D. Parke: The Gartan mother's lullaby

Sleep, white love (Sleep, white love, sleep) (from The Mountainy Singer) - G. Peterkin [x]
Sleep, white love, sleep (from The Mountainy Singer) [x]
G. Peterkin: Sleep, white love

The blue hills of Antrim (The blue hills of Antrim I see in my dreams) - E. Deale, H. Harty, D. Parke
The blue hills of Antrim I see in my dreams
E. Deale, H. Harty, D. Parke: The blue hills of Antrim

The dark is magical (The dark is magical, the air ) (from The Gilly of Christ) - F. Hart
The dark is magical, the air (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart: The dark is magical

The Gartan mother's lullaby (Sleep, o babe, for the red bee hums ) - H. Hughes, D. Parke
The journeyman weaver (Beam and shuttle seem to know ) (from Irishry) - G. Peterkin
The moon is in the marshes (The moon is in the marshes ) (from The Gilly of Christ) - F. Hart
The moon is in the marshes (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart: The moon is in the marshes

The ninepenny fidil (My father and mother were Irish ) (from The Mountainy Singer) - H. Hughes
The old woman (As a white candle) (from Irishry) - S. Dillon, F. Hart, H. Haufrecht, H. Roberton, P. Edmonds [x]
The shrine - A. Scott [x]
The shuiler (Every shuiler is Christ ) (from The Gilly of Christ) - A. Scott
The traveller - F. May [x]
The women bore their children (The women bore their children ) (from The Gilly of Christ) - F. Hart
The women bore their children (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart: The women bore their children

Twilight fallen white and cold (Twilight fallen white and cold ) (from The Gilly of Christ) - F. Hart, A. Scott
Twilight fallen white and cold (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart, A. Scott: Twilight fallen white and cold

When rooks fly homeward (When rooks fly homeward ) (from The Gilly of Christ) - F. Hart, I. Gurney, A. Rowley, A. Shepherd
When rooks fly homeward (from The Gilly of Christ)
F. Hart, I. Gurney, A. Rowley, A. Shepherd: When rooks fly homeward

Where Lagan stream sings lullaby
H. Harty: My Lagan love

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