Mary Black’s voice is beautiful and evocative in her rendition of this Irish Jacobite song, Mo Ghile Mear (“My Gallant Darling”).
Sting did a version of this with the Chieftains on The Long Black Veil.
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- light head, n.2 and adj. 1 October 2022, 0:00OED Word of the Day: light head, n.2 An injudicious or easily persuaded person; a silly or gullible person.
- per fas et nefas, adv. 2 October 2022, 0:00OED Word of the Day: per fas et nefas, adv. By right or wrong; by fair or unfair means; by any means (good or bad).
- downpressor, n. 3 October 2022, 0:00OED Word of the Day: downpressor, n. In Jamaican English (esp. in Rastafarian usage): a person who oppresses another person or group; an oppressor.
- alieniloquy, n. 4 October 2022, 0:00OED Word of the Day: alieniloquy, n. An instance of straying from the subject one is supposed to be talking about; rambling or evasive talk.
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- rhubarb, n. and adj. 6 October 2022, 0:00OED Word of the Day on National Poetry Day: rhubarb, n. slang. Nonsense; worthless stuff - as in this 1989 quotation from Simon Armitage, the current British Poet Laureate: "Poetry was rhubarb. Books were for eggheads".
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So lovely!! 😀 Thank you for the post.
I really liked it — Mary Black has a gorgeous voice — and I thought the photo montage video was quite good.