Ó Cad é Sin do’n Té Sin
Oh, what does anyone care?In the first video is a performance by Maighread & Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill. It’s from a series called Anam An Amhráin produced by Cartoon Saloon in conjunction with Sónta Productions for TG4 including 10 animated songs in Irish. With songs animated by artists such as Tomm Moore, Adrien Merigeau, Nora Twomey, Lily Bernard, Fabian Erlinghauser, Ross Stewart and many more. Cúilín Dualach, a previous innovative collaboration between these two companies, garnered a host of national and international awards.
Anam An Amhráin started life in 2010 as a TG4 series in which new life was given to twelve ‘old favourite’ Irish songs by a range of acclaimed singers from different artistic backgrounds (some not known for singing in Irish) under the musical guidance of Iarla Ó Lionáird, and through brand new animations inspired by the songs all by different Cartoon Saloon animators. The production received an IFTA nomination and a Celtic Media Festival nomination for best animation in 2011.
Sisters Maighread and Triona Ní Dhomhnaill have been singing together since they were children, and they have both chosen to make performing Irish music their life’s work: Maighread as a solo singer and Triona as a singer and instrumentalist with the Bothy Band Touchstone, and Nightnoise So it comes as a surprise to discover that the release of Idir an Dá Sholas marks the first time they have recorded together.
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I went to the market
And traded my cow
For five pounds in money
And a gold guinea coin
If I drank all the money
And my gold I did share
Since it's no one's concern,
Then so no one should care
If I drank all the money
And my gold I did share
Since it's no one's concern,
Then so no one should care
If I go to the green woods
Wild berries to store
Plucking apples from bowers
Or herding the cows
If I relax in the shade
For an hour or more
Since it's no one's concern,
Then so no one should care
If I relax in the shade
For an hour or more
Since it's no one's concern,
Then so no one should care
If I go to the céilís,
To dances or sports
Attend markets and races
And events of that sort
If I see people merry
And their merriment share
Since it's no one's concern,
Then so no one should care
People are saying
I'm a cad gone astray
Without goods or possessions,
No cow and no care
If it's my own desire
To live in a craw
Since it's no one's concern,
Then so no one should care
I went to the market
And traded my cow
For five pounds in money
And a gold guinea coin
If I drank all the money
And my gold I did share
Since it's no one's concern,
Then so no one should care