This is a traditional Irish song arranged by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Ciaran Tourish, Dermot Byrne, Ciaran Curran, Mark Kelly and Dáithí Sproule. It appears on Altan’s seventh studio album Another Sky, released in February 2000.

From joeheaney.org:

This song, familiar to schoolchildren and Irish language-learners around the country, would likely have been dismissed as a ‘school song’ by the people in Joe’s community. Even so, it represents a venerable type of song which Seán Ó Tuama termed the débat grá or ‘love debate.’ The subject matter of the song which, as here, takes the form of an argument between a girl and her mother about matters of the heart, has its roots in the troubadour and trouvère traditions of 12th-century France.

The translation here is the one Joe himself developed for his students, a fairly literal rendering that has the added benefit of being singable. He was fond of using this song as a sing-along in his classes, and he often placed it, as he does here, at the end of the evening. Compare the rendition here with the full-speed-ahead version on another recording, when he performs it in a medley with ‘An bhFaca Tú mo Shéamaisín?’