Deireadh An Tuath, the fifth track off of Enya’s debut album The Celts, translates to “End of the Tribe” in English. As the songwriter’s stated in the notes found on the song The Memory of Trees, trees were believed to contain spirits and hold lore of times passed. The final two lines of the second...
[English Lyrics]
[Verse 1]
Sí an Ghealach
Mall san oiche
Sí an Ghrian
Fán liom go Deo
[Refrain]
Hoireann is O
Hi-o-ho-ro-ho
[Verse 2]
Sí na Samhna
Tús na Bliain Úr
Sí an chrann marbh
Deireadh an tuath
[Refrain]
Hoireann is O
Hi-o-ho-ro-ho
[Refrain]
Hoireann is O
Hi-o-ho-ro-ho
Deireadh An Tuath was produced by Nicky Ryan.
According to Enya.sk, Enya declared in a BBC interview:
There’s a piece that I wrote called ‘Deireadh an Tuath’, which means “The End of the Tribe”, or “The End of an Clann”. And when I was reading about the Celts, I was reading about their beliefs in, in a lot of things like the magic of the sun, a...