Rann le Tomás Rua Ó Súilleabháin - Seán Ó Conaill
Thu, 10/11/2012 - 14:02 | by Eoghan
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Transcript
Is bréagach é Naomh Peadar agus Pól,
Is bréagach í Muire agus a Mac,
Is bréagach é Pápa na Róimh,
Más aige Bland agus aige Stokes atá an ceart.
Translation
How false are Saints Peter and Paul,
How false are Mary and her Son,
How false is the Pope in Rome,
If Bland and Stokes are correct.
Commentary
This short quatrain is attributed to Iveragh poet Tomás Rua Ó Súilleabháin, and is based on a supposed incident where the poet called to a priest's house on a fast-day, and found two gentlemen, named Stokes and Bland, eating meat sandwiches. The priest asked him what he thought of the incident, and the poem was his reply. See Séamus Dubh, The poems and songs of Tomás Ruadh O’Sullivan (Dublin, 1914), 105. The full identity of the men is not known, but they may be local Protestant landowners, who would not have felt obliged to observe the fast. One may possibly be identified as a member of the Bland family, who owned Parknasilla House near Sneem, county Kerry, and nearby Derryquin Castle. The precise identity of Stokes is unclear, but there were Stokes associated with Glashnacree House, also in Sneem. See Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp, The visitation of Ireland (London, 1897), 82.
Title in English: Quatrain by Tomás Rua Ó Súilleabháin
Digital version published by: Doegen Records Web Project, Royal Irish Academy
Description of the Recording:
Speaker:
Seán
Ó Conaill from Co.
Kerry
Person who made the recording:
Wilhelm Doegen
Organizer and administrator of the recording scheme: The Royal Irish Academy
In collaboration with: Lautabteilung, Preußische Staatsbibliothek (now Lautarchiv,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Recorded on 11-09-1928 at 16:45:00 in Convent
of Mercy, Killarney (office). Recorded on 11-09-1928 at 16:45:00 in Convent
of Mercy, Killarney (office).
Archive recording (ID LA_1071d2, from a shellac disk stored at the
Royal Irish Academy) is 00:26 minutes
long. Archive recording (ID LA_1071d2, from a shellac disk stored at the
Royal Irish Academy) is 00:26 minutes
long.
User recording (ID LA_1071d2, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal
Irish Academy) is 00:24 minutes long. User recording (ID LA_1071d2, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal
Irish Academy) is 00:24 minutes long.
