Songs travel by being carried.
Seanchas is a place to keep the songs you know — in whatever language, with translations and notes. Find a song in someone else's book and carry it into your own. Change the words, add a verse you learned differently, write down where you first heard it.
Every song here has a history. You can see where it came from.
Start your own songbookrecently learned
- The Streets of Derry in cara-dillon's book
- The Streets of Derry in spiers-and-boden's book
- Aghnaseagh in june-tabor's book
- Strange Fruit in june-tabor's book
- She Moves Through the Fair in june-tabor's book
- The Rocks of Bawn in joe-heaney's book
- Peigín is Peadar Peggy and Peter in joe-heaney's book
- An Mhaighdean Mhara The Mermaid in joe-heaney's book
- Éamonn an Chnoic Ned of the Hill in joe-heaney's book
traditional singers
Cara Dillon (b. 1975), from Dungiven, County Derry. One of the most distinctive voices in Irish traditional song. Known for her clear, unadorned approach to Uls…
Seosamh Ó hÉanaí (1919–1984), from Carna, Connemara. One of the greatest sean-nós singers of the twentieth century. Collected and performed hundreds of songs in…
June Tabor (b. 1947), from Warwickshire. One of the finest interpreters of traditional English and Irish song, known for her spare, unflinching approach to dark…
John Spiers (melodeon) and Jon Boden (fiddle, voice). English folk duo, active 2000–2014. Known for driving, unadorned arrangements of traditional English and I…