If you go to the RTÉ Player you can watch Ó Bhéal Go Béal - Four people who took part in a 1937 scheme to encourage schoolchildren to collect and document folklore and local history recount the days of their youth.
It's available until Monday the 28th of November and there's some lovely singing from Iarla and I'd like to know what the song is that the children sing at the end of it, if anyone could tell me that, I'd be grateful.
Franc
http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1120611 (you'll find it here, if the link works)

Lovely video. Togha fir, Franc.

The song at the end is Thugamar Féin an Samhradh Linn.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

that was an awesome idea. Too bad they didn't do the same in all the countries and regions of the world (including mine)... in a couple of years, looks like all the folklore and traditions will have disappeared and people will only know the rubbish they see on tv...

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

Thugamar Féin An Samhradh Linn performed by T with the Maggies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzquzNEYmQM
Can't say I like that version terribly. I like the old gals' version of Ceol An Phíobaire better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVIfvHktBk

But what a star-studded cast of "old gals", eh? Tá siad go hiontach ar fad. It was Máire Ní Bhraonáin in Clannad that got me interested in Irish to begin with. Go raibh míle maith agat "T with the Maggies" a chur i bhfios dhúinn, Errigal.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Tá siad iontach deas, gan amhras. Bhí mé i láthair ar cheolchorm dá gcuid i Leitir Ceanainn i mí… ééé, i rith an tsamhraidh. Ar fheabhas a bhí sé, mar cheolchorm. Agus bhí siad uilig iontach deas ’s mé ag caint leofa (i nGaeilig, ar ndóigh) i ndiaidh an tseó chomh maith. :-)

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Not a native speaker.

Always wait for at least three people to agree on a translation, especially if it’s for something permanent.

My translations are usually GU (Ulster Irish), unless CO (Standard Orthography) is requested.

<- (Éad mór atá orm leat.) Nach ort a bhí an t-ádh!

Actually, I did have a session with Altán in Tokyo once and met Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. (Our lead singer was from Letterkenny and went to school with Altán's guitarist.) But I'm still jealous you met Moya.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

I saw Clannad in Ballyshannon in 1982 and I had the chance to have a word with Cathal of Boys of the Lough when they came to France. In the Irish College in Paris I've seen Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Cathy Jordan, Danú and Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin among others - yes and of course it was hearing Clannad that got me interested in Irish in the first place.

Just to say that someone has had the good idea of putting it on YouTube, as it's no longer available from RTÉ. There's another programme from Ó Bhéal go Béal on Séamus Ennis on YouTube that's just as worth watching and listening to. You'd think that someone at RTÉ would have the sense to put this kind of programme on DVD and put it on sale in their shop, but no they have acres and yards of archives sitting there doing nothing on shelves somewhere - and to get to see any of it you have be an academic, and the same goes for the 1937 School Archive - surely someone could gather some of it together in some way and publish it. It's living gold.

mise fosta - tuighe nár thagh tusa Gaeilg Uladh a dh'fhoghlaim mar sin? Thagh mise canúint GhD ar dtús siocair gurb í sin an chéad chanúint a chualaidh mé (in amhráin Chlannad agus Altan), agus siocair go bhfuil sí iontach binn.

Uair amháin chonaic mise Mairéad in Ionad Cois Locha (Dún Lúiche) i ndiaidh ceolchoirme (a sheinn grúpa eile) ach bhí mé rófhaiteach le ghabháil a labhairt léithe

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne