Album version 2:56 Gaelic 1987/1992

Quotes about the song

For the signature tune, I was looking for something that was both catchy and original and different to everything else I had written for The Celts. And, um, I had been working with the piano and the synthesizer and it happened on the synthesizer that I got this riff. Um, it went sort of ‘bum bum-bum bum-bum,’ you know, this type. And I got excited about it and then I started writing the right hand melody. And it just from there on worked for me really.
TV Interview: To Go Beyond, BBC, 1987
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Single

sinlge cover

01 The Celts
02 Oíche Chiún
03 ‘S Fagaim mo Bhaile


Music Video

The video for the song was filmed at the Bodiam Castle in East Sussex, England. It was Enya’s last video directed by Michael Geoghegan.

Gaelic lyrics

Hi-ri, Hi-ro, Hi-ri.
Hoireann is O, ha hi, ra ha, ra ho ra.
Hoireann is O, ha hi, ra ha, ra ha ra.
Hi-ri, Hi-ra, Hi-ri.

Saol na saol,
Tús go deireadh.
Tá muid beo
Go deo.

Saol na saol,
Tús go deireadh.
Tá muid beo
Go deo.

Hi-ri, Hi-ra, Hi-ri,
Hoireann is O, ho hi, ra ha, ra ha ra.

Translation

Life of lives,
Beginning to the end.
We are alive
Forever.

Life of lives,
Beginning to the end.
We are alive
Forever.

lyrics by Roma Ryan
EMI Music Publishing Ltd, 1987