Edmund of the Hill (Ned of the Hill)



"Oh who is without

That with passionate shout

Keeps beating my bolted door?"

"I am Ned of the Hill

Forspent wet and chill

From long trudging marsh and moor"

"My love, fond and true

What else could I do

But shield you from wind and from weather?

When the shots fall like hail

They us both shall assail

And mayhap we shall die together."



"Through forest and through snow

Tired and hunted I go

In fear both from friend and from neighbor

My horses run wild

My acres untilled

And they all of them lost to my labor

But it grieves me far more

Than the loss of my store

That there's none who would shield me from danger

So my fate it must be

To fare eastward o'er sea

And languish amid the stranger"



"Ce-h-e sin amuh

Go bhfuil faor ar a ghuth

A' reaba mo dhoruis dunta?"

"Mise Eamonn a' Chnuic

Ta baidhte fuar fliuch

O shior-shuil sleihbte is gleannta"

"A lao ghil's a chuid

Cad do dheannfainn-se dhuit

Mara gcuirfinn ort beinn dom ghuna?

'S go mbeidh pudar dubh

Is go mbeimis araon muchta"

"Is fada mise amuh

Faoi shneachta is faoi shioc

Is gan danacht agam ar einne

Mo bhranar gan cur

Mo sheisreach gar sgur

Is gan iad agam ar aon chor

Nil caraid agam

(Is danaid liom san)

Do ghlacfadh me moch na deanach

Is go gcaithfe me dul

Thar fairrge soir

O's ann na fuil mo ghaolta"



translation from the Gaelic by Donal O'Sullivan

Edmund Ryan of the Hill was an Irish earl displaced by Cromwell

after the Battle of the Boyne who stayed in Ireland to fight the

British. Here he sheltered with his old girlfriend. Later a

neighbor killed him while giving him "shelter" for the reward

money, only to find that the reward had just been withdrawn after

Edmund had done an Englishman a service.

Printed in Donal O'Sullivan's Songs of the Irish

Other version recorded by Jean Redpath

Sung in by Bridget Fitzgerald

@Irish @Gaelic @outlaw @love

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