Among the Wicklow Hills by Pierce Turner. It replaced the more traditional “The Meeting of the Waters” written by Thomas Moore in the early 19th century (from his Irish Melodies series). A romantic ballad inspired by the confluence of the Avon and Avoca rivers in the Vale of Avoca, Wicklow.
- The autumn evenings filled with copper shades
- I see the birds’ neck in the frame
- A figure walks into the sunset
- Someone goes past suspended from the sky
- Takes more imagination
- When everything’s remote control
- For me it’s just a case of
- What’s on the far side of the road
- Tell everybody
- I’m going away for ten years
- I’m going to wander
- Among the Wicklow hills
- The travelling children in their Sunday clothes
- Lost on the corner of the Street
- Fat gypsy lady smacks the windowpane
- A farm dog gets out on the motorway
- Takes more imagination
- When everything’s remote control
- For me it’s just a case of
- What’s on the far side of the road
- Tell everybody
- I’m going away for ten years
- I’m going to wander
- Among the Wicklow hills
Meeting of the waters
- There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
- As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet
- Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart,
- Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
- Yet it was not that nature had shed o’er the scene
- Her purest of crystal and brightest of green
- ‘Twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill,
- Oh! no, — it was something more exquisite still.
- ‘Twas that friends, the beloved of my bosom, were near,
- Who made every dear scene of enchantment more dear,
- And who felt how the best charms of nature improve,
- When we see them reflected from looks that we love.
- Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm could I rest
- In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best,
- Where the storms that we feel in this cold world should cease,
- And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace.
Anthem of the county
Antrim – Armagh – Carlow – Cavan – Clare – Cork – Derry – Donegal – Down – Dublin – Fermanagh – Galway – Kerry – Kildare – Kilkenny – Laois – Leitrim – Limerick – Longford – Louth – Mayo – Meath – Monaghan – Offaly – Roscommon – Sligo – Tipperary – Tyrone – Waterford – Westmeath – Wexford – Wicklow
Songs from the county
Antrim – Armagh – Carlow – Cavan – Clare – Cork – Derry – Donegal – Down – Dublin – Fermanagh – Galway – Kerry – Kildare – Kilkenny – Laois – Leitrim – Limerick – Longford – Louth – Mayo – Meath – Monaghan – Offaly – Roscommon – Sligo – Tipperary – Tyrone – Waterford – Westmeath – Wexford – Wicklow
County Wicklow:
Ireland’s county Wicklow is known as the Garden of Ireland for its lush landscapes, with Glendalough’s monastic ruins and round tower set amidst serene lakes and valleys. The Wicklow Mountains National Park offers hiking trails with stunning views, while Powerscourt Estate’s manicured gardens and waterfall add natural elegance. Other attractions include the coastal paths of Bray. Wicklow is Ireland’s 17th largest county by size (,025 sq km) and 16th largest by population (155,851). Population peaked at 126,143 in 1841 and reached its lowest point, 57,591 in 1926. In terms of hospitality, Wicklow is Ireland’s twelfth most visited tourist county with around 204,000 international visitors per year.
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