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The tune to Morning Has Broken is an old Gaelic tune called Bunessan. The tune is named after Bunessan, a village on the Isle of Mull. Bunessan is only three miles from the village where some of my ancestors were born and which was "cleared" by the Duke of Argyll to make way for sheep.
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Yes Rick oh Yes. on 21:36 - Jan 10 with 1346 views
The tune to Morning Has Broken is an old Gaelic tune called Bunessan. The tune is named after Bunessan, a village on the Isle of Mull. Bunessan is only three miles from the village where some of my ancestors were born and which was "cleared" by the Duke of Argyll to make way for sheep.
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That's beautiful played on the harp, what an interesting story tell me more.
Nice one Francis.
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Yes Rick oh Yes. on 21:52 - Jan 10 with 1302 views
Funnily enough, just before noticing this post I had played Rick performing the piano solo of Life On Mars? as a tribute to David Bowie, on the tenth anniversary of the great man's sad passing.
No matter how many times I hear it, still brings a tear to the eye.
Wakeman is a genius and please God, keep him with us for a good while longer.
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Yes Rick oh Yes. on 22:51 - Jan 10 with 1235 views
The tune to Morning Has Broken is an old Gaelic tune called Bunessan. The tune is named after Bunessan, a village on the Isle of Mull. Bunessan is only three miles from the village where some of my ancestors were born and which was "cleared" by the Duke of Argyll to make way for sheep.
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I know bunessan well, holidayed there many times, where are your ancestors from?
Funnily enough, just before noticing this post I had played Rick performing the piano solo of Life On Mars? as a tribute to David Bowie, on the tenth anniversary of the great man's sad passing.
No matter how many times I hear it, still brings a tear to the eye.
Wakeman is a genius and please God, keep him with us for a good while longer.
And, this morning, I listened to the Life on Mars episode of Soul Music (in which Rick’s contribution features).
Us old 'uns may recall Morning Has Broken being the name of the Radio Orwell breakfast show God slot back in the day - the DJ (normally Andy Archer) would introduce the section, there'd be the introduction from Cat Stevens/Yusuf's version, the speaker did their thing, and the section would end with the closing few bars of Cat's rendition.
Then normally across to Martlesham Police Headquarters for the travel news, and 10cc coming up after the break, which may well contain the words "John Grose, Ipswich for Fords. Princes Street Ipswich for Fords"
Flipping heck, I'm old.
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Yes Rick oh Yes. on 08:13 - Jan 11 with 1018 views
A couple of quotes from those links, the second indicating that Shiaba itself had a link to Morning Has Broken.
Professor Tom Devine, one of Scotland's leading historians, considers the area to be "achingly beautiful", but more importantly calls Shiaba "a fantastic laboratory for looking at the clearances (and) … the most significant site in the western Highlands."
A notable resident of Shiba was the Gaelic poet Mary MacLucas, author of the Gaelic hymn Leanabh an àigh (Child in a Manger). The tune of this piece later became famous as the melody to the more widely known hymn Morning Has Broken.
The tune to Morning Has Broken is an old Gaelic tune called Bunessan. The tune is named after Bunessan, a village on the Isle of Mull. Bunessan is only three miles from the village where some of my ancestors were born and which was "cleared" by the Duke of Argyll to make way for sheep.
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Drove through there in the summer, on the way to and from Iona. Filled up at the petrol station just up the road run by the old boy at Ardfenaig.
A couple of quotes from those links, the second indicating that Shiaba itself had a link to Morning Has Broken.
Professor Tom Devine, one of Scotland's leading historians, considers the area to be "achingly beautiful", but more importantly calls Shiaba "a fantastic laboratory for looking at the clearances (and) … the most significant site in the western Highlands."
A notable resident of Shiba was the Gaelic poet Mary MacLucas, author of the Gaelic hymn Leanabh an àigh (Child in a Manger). The tune of this piece later became famous as the melody to the more widely known hymn Morning Has Broken.
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wow, that's remote! not been there, but have visited suidhe which seems similar and is a little nearer the road; fascinating places
I know I am continuing the thread derailment but if anyone gets fascinated by visiting clearance sites on Mull and wants to continue the exploration a bit further north on Skye this a well known one:
It's very high on my list of places to visit, but I have only in the last few years looked into my parent's ancestry.
My ancestors' names from Shiaba were McFadyen and Campbell, but even though my mother's middle name was McFadyen, she knew nothing about the link to Mull until I looked into her ancestry.
McFadyen is the Scottish equivalent to the Irish McFadden, both meaning son of little Patrick.
I know I am continuing the thread derailment but if anyone gets fascinated by visiting clearance sites on Mull and wants to continue the exploration a bit further north on Skye this a well known one:
A couple of quotes from those links, the second indicating that Shiaba itself had a link to Morning Has Broken.
Professor Tom Devine, one of Scotland's leading historians, considers the area to be "achingly beautiful", but more importantly calls Shiaba "a fantastic laboratory for looking at the clearances (and) … the most significant site in the western Highlands."
A notable resident of Shiba was the Gaelic poet Mary MacLucas, author of the Gaelic hymn Leanabh an àigh (Child in a Manger). The tune of this piece later became famous as the melody to the more widely known hymn Morning Has Broken.
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Short Name: Mary Macdonald Full Name: Macdonald, Mary, 1789-1872 Birth Year: 1789 Death Year: 1872 Mary MacDougal MacDonald United Kingdom Born at Ardtun, daughter of a farmer and Baptist cleric, Duncan MacDougal, northeast of Bunessan on the Ross of Mull, she was a Gaelic poet who lived at Cancan, Bunessan on Mull, Scotland. She never spoke English. She married Neil MacDonald and settled into a life as a crofter’s wife. While at her spinning wheel she passed time by singing hymns and poems, some of her own composition. She was a devout Baptist. Some of her hymns reached beyond her locality. The tune of her best known hymn (same tune as hymn: “Morning has broken”) was an old Scottish melody she attached to her lyrics that helped popularize the hymn, translated from the Gaelic in 1888 by Lachlan McBean of Scotland. No family information found.
Short Name: Mary Macdonald Full Name: Macdonald, Mary, 1789-1872 Birth Year: 1789 Death Year: 1872 Mary MacDougal MacDonald United Kingdom Born at Ardtun, daughter of a farmer and Baptist cleric, Duncan MacDougal, northeast of Bunessan on the Ross of Mull, she was a Gaelic poet who lived at Cancan, Bunessan on Mull, Scotland. She never spoke English. She married Neil MacDonald and settled into a life as a crofter’s wife. While at her spinning wheel she passed time by singing hymns and poems, some of her own composition. She was a devout Baptist. Some of her hymns reached beyond her locality. The tune of her best known hymn (same tune as hymn: “Morning has broken”) was an old Scottish melody she attached to her lyrics that helped popularize the hymn, translated from the Gaelic in 1888 by Lachlan McBean of Scotland. No family information found.
I had spotted that, and don't know if she went by a different name or names especially given the difficulty of pinning down in English at that time Gaelic patronymic surnames but what I said is repeated in the Mull Historical And Archaeology Society piece on Shiaba.
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