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    Music of the Gael : the ideal song book for Irish children. 1-3 / by Rev. P. A. Walsh

    Also in 1924, having provided collections of songs in Irish for the schoolchildren of the new Irish Free State, Fr Breathnach turned to editing patriotic and inspiring songs in English in three similar twopenny songsters for the Dublin educational publisher Fallons. Entitled Music of the Gael: The Ideal Song Book for Irish Children and containing lyrics mostly of the previous century, these were the first of his publications in which the melodies are harmonised in two or three parts, probably with school choirs in mind. Although she is not credited, the harmonisation is likely by the musician Dr Annie W. Patterson with whom Breathnach would collaborate in several of his remaining publications.

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    Music of the Gael : the ideal song book for Irish children. Part 1 / by Rev. P. A. Walsh

    Bereft [song: music and words] (air: Willy Reilly) — Irishmen of every creed [song: music and words] (air: The rakes of Mallow) — The little red fox [song: music and words] (air: An Maidrin Ruadh) — I love the hills of Ireland [song: music and words] — Erin asthore [song: music and words] (air: Top of Cork Road) — Let Erin remember [song: music and words] — The summer is coming [song: music and words] (air: Johnson’s morning brush) — The little house under the hill [song: words only] — I saw from the beach [song: music and words] — Erin aroon [song: music and words] (air: Eibhlin arun) — Dear land [song: music and words] (air: Kelly of Killann) — My land [song: music and words]

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