As Gaeilge

Written in direct response to Jessie Buckley wins Best Actress for Agnes Shakespeare in Chloe Zhao's Hamnet — the first Irish woman ever to win, sweeping SAG, BAFTA, Globe, and Oscar, closing her speech in the Irish language (Gaelic), a deeply personal triumph from the girl from Cork to the Dolby Theatre stage. The lyrics weave in verified details — Jessie Buckley; Agnes Shakespeare; Hamnet. Majik delivers the report through pop, letting the data hit as hard as the beat. Lines like "But Jessie's heart was never built for defeat" anchor the track in specifics that generic coverage misses. The mood — uplifting, triumphant, emotional — reflects the emotional reality behind the numbers. Every Majik's Studio news track exists to make you feel the story, not just read it.

[verse 1] From a town in Cork where the rain don't stop Where the fiddles play on every rooftop A girl grew up with fire in her voice And the kind of spirit that don't give you a choice But to listen when she enters the room Like the sun decided to outshine the moon She packed her bags for London first Carrying every Irish woman's thirst To be seen to be heard to be more Than the stories that came before Nominated once for The Lost Daughter's grief Close but not close enough for belief But Jessie Buckley doesn't know the word quit She came back stronger and this time she lit The whole stage on fire with Agnes's pain Shakespeare's wife finally given a name [chorus] First of her name The girl from Cork who changed the game First of her name Speaking truth in an ancient flame As Gaeilge she said what her heart couldn't hold First of her name Irish courage Irish gold First of her name [verse 2] Chloe Zhao saw something nobody else could The wildness in her eyes the way she stood Like every woman who had lost a child Like every grief that time had never filed Hamnet was the son that Shakespeare lost And Agnes was the mother bearing all the cost Jessie played her like a prayer on fire Every scene ascending higher and higher SAG said yes and BAFTA said it too Golden Globe came calling right on cue But the Oscar was the mountain left to climb The one they said no Irish woman could find Rose Byrne and Kate Hudson in the race Renate Reinsve and Emma Stone's grace Five women for one golden seat But Jessie's heart was never built for defeat [chorus] First of her name The girl from Cork who changed the game First of her name Speaking truth in an ancient flame As Gaeilge she said what her heart couldn't hold First of her name Irish courage Irish gold First of her name [verse 3] She walked up to that microphone Holding gold like holding home Thanked the cast the crew the ones who cared Thanked the story and the grief they shared Told her partner Fred I love you still Want twenty-thousand babies and I always will The audience laughed and cried at once Because that's what Jessie does confronts The beautiful the broken and the true Makes you feel like she's singing just to you Then she closed in Gaelic soft and low Words her grandmother would have known The language of an island nearly lost Spoken on the world's most famous stage At any cost Because being first means carrying the weight Of everyone who came before and had to wait [chorus] First of her name The girl from Cork who changed the game First of her name Speaking truth in an ancient flame As Gaeilge she said what her heart couldn't hold First of her name Irish courage Irish gold First of her name [bridge] For every Irish girl who watched tonight With tears running down and holding tight To the dream that someone like you Could stand in that light and see it through The language didn't die it was just waiting For a voice brave enough to bring it To the biggest room in the world As Gaeilge forever the Irish girl [chorus] First of her name The girl from Cork who changed the game First of her name Speaking truth in an ancient flame As Gaeilge she said what her heart couldn't hold First of her name Irish courage Irish gold First of her name [outro] First of her name As Gaeilge First of her name Forever the Irish girl First of her name