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This version as Gaeilge is translated from PJ McCall's great Carlow marching song, said to be to the melody of Fiach's pipers as they marched. It should be at the normal marching tempo, rather than the usual very fast tempo of the English version.

Long, long ago ancestral lore was passed on orally;
The spark to light the Cultural Fire was lit in family
And local neighbours and the clan, all warmed to that same Flame
And so all came to act the same, all Keepers of the Flame.
Ár gcultúr…

A morning fair, o’erarched with skies of May,
Broke over files of men in stern array-
By wrongs made reckless – to avenge the flood –
The seething torrent of their tears and blood
By England’s hell-hounds shed. The sunbeams fell
On…

Seo leagan Gaeilge de'n amhrán cáiliúla Follow Me Up To Carlow a chum P.J. McCall.

Irish Liberty
Ye friends of Irish Liberty and sons of Granuaile
Be not afraid of England’s bull, his horns, his head or tail;
He’s but a shadow on the grass reflected from a tree,
So break the branches bare, brave boys, and plant the…

The song captures the violence and the heroism of a young woman during one of the battles of 1798