{"id":186662,"date":"2025-07-15T12:46:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/?post_type=product&#038;p=186662"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:59:39","slug":"hireath-am-feirion","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/all-music\/artists\/ailie-robertson\/hireath-am-feirion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiraeth Am Feirion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Notes from the arranger<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Hireath Am Feirion&#8221; is a gorgeous tune from Wales about a homesick sailor who longs to see Wales again. The term \u201chiraeth\u201d is a word for a feeling that combines regret, nostalgia, stoicism, and yearning all in one. He&#8217;s longing to go back to a (now historic) county in northwestern Wales, which is called Meirionethshire in English.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to find a translation of this song into English:<\/p>\n<p>There is a mountain in the sea which hides Meirioneth<br \/>\nI had sight of it once only before it broke my heart<br \/>\nWind from the sea and sun from the mountain<br \/>\nGrey rocks instead of trees<br \/>\nAnd gulls instead of people<br \/>\nI will make a boat of the oak of love<br \/>\nAnd its mast, the wood of experience<br \/>\nAnd put longing in its sail to make it go<br \/>\nWave to wave to my own land<\/p>\n<h3>Listen<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hiraeth Am Feirion - Beautiful Welsh tune for Elem\/Int level harp\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r_-5U7nswYk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4>Scroll down to listen.<\/h4>\n<p>Ailie Robertson has arranged the Welsh tune \u201cHireath Am Feirion\u201d for solo lever or pedal harp. Both an easier and a more advanced version are included. Scroll down for notes from the arranger.<\/p>\n<p>This piece is available as a PDF download for\u00a0<strong>$5.00.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Pages to print:<\/em> 2 pgs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Duration: 2<\/em>:00<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Note:<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This PDF was revised on 8-9-2025. If you purchased this piece prior to that and would like an updated PDF, please <a href=\"mailto:info@harpcolumn.com\">email us.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":189231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5089],"product_tag":[8411,477],"class_list":["post-186662","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-ailie-robertson","product_tag-split-products","product_tag-harp-solo","pa_artist-robertson-ailie","pa_composer-traditional","pa_genre-folk-traditional","pa_harp-type-harp-lever","pa_instrumentation-harp-solo","pa_level-intermediate","pa_nationality-welsh","first","instock","downloadable","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"exclude_global_add_ons":[],"addons":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/186662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=186662"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=186662"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harpcolumn.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=186662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}