Tall, graceful, beautiful and noble, masters of all arts and The tuatha de danann 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 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 play their pipes you can hear their music as clear 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 November 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 on the hill will never return to the world of the humans and is referred to as being "away with the fairies"
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go away with the fairies Back to And climb the hill with the fairies Ah please say you will Ah c'com say you will
We can go to the Of the legends and The world of the The fairy, the If we dance to their stay there forever In the misty moonlight The dawn of the And we'll and dance and dance And dance all night On the
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