Tall, graceful, beautiful and noble, masters of all arts and The tuatha de ruled Ireland until the coming of the Celtic people. Retreating before the rougher ways of the invaders. The people of Danann (or Danu) Inhabited the high lonely places, eventually disappearing under ground in their fairy forts, and the hills like Cnoc medha (or hill on the plain) near Tuam where Fin Bhera , King of Connacht fairies lives with Nula , his queen , and a host of the Sidhe. Called "Fairies" "the Good Folk" " the Gentry" "The wee Folk" or Sidhe(pronounced Shee) they love feasting , singing , dancing and music. Whenever they play their pipes you can hear their music as as day and it is the grandest kind of music. It may last half the night but once day comes it ends.
Twilight, dawn, May and eve are all times of the change when the mysterious entrance to the world of the fairies may become visible! A Human who becomes enchanted on hearing fairy music, and dances all night on the hill will never return to the world of the humans and is referred to as being "away with the fairies"
A of light down from the mountain A wonderful, Sound from the A half-forgotten But still inside me It calls me s I shiver and And dance all night on The
We'll go away the fairies Back to And we'll the hill Away with the Ah c'mon say you will Ah c'com say you will
We can go to the Of the legends and The of the wee-folk The fairy, the If we to their music We'll stay there In the misty oul' The dawn of the And we'll dance and dance and And We'll all night On the
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