Torra Lorra Lorra (sp?)
Devin P Browne
This was my father's favorite lullaby--he sang it to all of his kids when
we were little. I would like to know the words to the song (as well as
the correct spelling of the title). If anyone out there can help me, I'd
really appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Devin
DPBR...@pitt.edu
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Dennis Ahern
In article <20...@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, dpbr...@pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) writes...
> This was my father's favorite lullaby--he sang it to all of his kids when
> we were little. I would like to know the words to the song (as well as
> the correct spelling of the title). If anyone out there can help me, I'd
> really appreciate it.
Rent the movie "Going My Way" where Bing Crosby sings this to Barry Fitzgerald.
It's no more Irish than "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling", but that's OK.
I think it's spelled Too-ra Loo-ra Loo-ra, but I don't know the title.
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Graham Walker
First the obvious suspects:
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Carolina Oliphant (1766-1845)
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)
Now the less obvious poets:
Violet Jacob (1863-1946)
Helen B. Cruickshank (1886-1975)
Edwin Muir (1887-1959)
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)
Tom Scott (1918- )
Hamish Henderson (1919- )
Edwin Morgan (1920- )
R.D. Laing (1927-1989)
David Morrison (????- )
Finally, a good new guy:
George Gunn (1956- )
Craig Cockburn
wal...@osprey.cc.mancol.edu "Graham Walker" writes:
> Someone named Stuart from Georgia Tech (?) sent me e-mail asking who good
> Scottish poets were. I lost his address so I have decided to post my reply,
> since others might be interested.
>
>
Sorley Maclean (1911- ) is quite good too.
He won the Queen's award for poetry in 1990 and his bilingual book "From
wood to ridge" won the 1990 Scottish Saltire Book award and the McVities
Scottish book award.
The Times wrote: "Here is the key to some of the most fiercely impassioned
poetry this century"
The London Review of books said "The finest poetry written by British
citizens during the years 1939-1945 was produced by T.S.Eliot and Sorley
MacLean". Runrig quoted from Sorley Maclean on either The Highland Connection
or Recovery.
There are many other good Gaelic poets too (i.e. Derek Thompson,
Meg Bateman, Roderick MacDonald, and all the other winners of the Bardic
Crown)
--
Craig Cockburn (pronounced "coburn"), Edinburgh, Scotland
Sgri\obh thugam 'sa Ga\idhlig ma 'se do thoil e.
Alan Smaill
Someone named Stuart from Georgia Tech (?) sent me e-mail asking who good Scottish poets were. I lost his address so I have decided to post my reply, since others might be interested.
First the obvious suspects:
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
If you start with Burns, you miss out on some good stuff from earlier,
eg Dunbar (15th C) and the renaissance poets (eg Montogmerie).
The Penguin book of Scottish verse (ed Tom Scott) is a good
anthology from very early work right up to the present.
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in anything, I would like to add a few names to the list of *good*
Scottish poets. First, while Burns seems obvious out of the
eighteenth century, his predecessor Robert Fergusson, a brilliant
satirist, must also be noted. His satires on Dr. Johnson are
particularly biting and worthy of note for their nationalistic
sentiments as well as their humour.
A little closer to contemporary times, I would suggest four names
that I particularly care for: Alan Jackson, Stewart Conn, Ron
Butlin and Jackie Kay.
Enjoy.
Douglas Clark
Polygon, 22 George Street, Edinburgh EH8 are currently publishing
Dream State, The New Scottish Poets, edited by Donnie O'Rourke.
All the big names are included (except me!) . L10.95
That way you can read them all before choosing the individual books
to follow up on. THe older generation is taking very much a back seat
nowadays. No more drinking in the Greyfriars with Ferguson.
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M Campbell
What about poor old Allan Ramsay? I would have thought he deserved a
mention.
AD...@psuvm.psu.edu
Douglas, whose _Eneados_, a rendering of Virgil, was claimed by
Pound to be better than the original--for, as Old Ez would have
it, Douglas "had heard the sea." (One assumes, though, that
Virgil had heard it too & that Pound is waxing perhaps a bit
metaphysical.) In any event, Douglas was a contemporary of
Dunbar; but I do not have his dates on hand.
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David Librik
>In article <2omts1$g...@romulus.cc.mancol.edu>, wal...@osprey.cc.mancol.edu (Graham Walker) writes:
>|> Someone named Stuart from Georgia Tech (?) sent me e-mail asking who good Scottish poets were. I lost his address so I have decided to post my reply, since others might be interested.
>|>
>|>
>|> First the obvious suspects:
>|>
>|> Robert Burns (1759-1796)
>|> Carolina Oliphant (1766-1845)
>|> Walter Scott (1771-1832)
>|> George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
>|>
>|> Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)
>|>
SORLEY MACLEAN SORLEY MACLEAN SORLEY MACLEAN SORLEY MACLEAN SORLEY MACLEAN
(just in case you didn't read it right the first time)
It is truly bitterly ironic that one of the best 20th century poets from
Britain should be a Gaelic speaker, thus guaranteeing that no one ever hears
of him.
Even in translation this guy is _so good_. See what you can find in your
university library. There's a particularly good collection called _New
Scottish Gaelic Poetry_ out now.
- David Librik
lib...@cs.Berkeley.edu
David Morning
..and where's William MacGonnagle?
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Alan Smaill
In article <94109.12...@psuvm.psu.edu> <AD...@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
ADB4> Another early Scottish poet no one has as yet mentioned is Gavin
ADB4> Douglas, whose _Eneados_, a rendering of Virgil, was claimed by
ADB4> Pound to be better than the original--for, as Old Ez would have
ADB4> it, Douglas "had heard the sea." (One assumes, though, that
ADB4> Virgil had heard it too & that Pound is waxing perhaps a bit
ADB4> metaphysical.)
Maybe the Atlantic sounds different from the Mediterranean?
I second the recommendation
(it is earlier than any translation into English, apperently).
mol...@muvms6.wvnet.edu
>
> In article <20...@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, dpbr...@pitt.edu (Devin P Browne) writes...
>
>> This was my father's favorite lullaby--he sang it to all of his kids when
>> we were little. I would like to know the words to the song (as well as
>> the correct spelling of the title). If anyone out there can help me, I'd
>> really appreciate it.
>
> Rent the movie "Going My Way" where Bing Crosby sings this to Barry Fitzgerald.
mother had sung this to him:
Too-ra loo-ra loora
toora loora lai
toora loora lorra
Frankie don't you cry
> It's no more Irish than "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling", but that's OK.
I don't believe that's true; see above. The other words were probably made
up for the movie. But I think the song is Irish originally