Paidir Ghairdín Pharthais - Mícheál Ó Concheanainn


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Transcript

I nGairdín Pharthais bhí an Paidrín Páirteach
Ag moladh na mná a bhí ariamh gan locht,
A Aonmhac Muire is a Rí na nGrásta,
Go dtuga tú na grásta dhá[1] n-anam bocht.

(Treis) agus cairde tabhair gach lá dhúinn,
Sacraiméad na haithrí agus go neartaí Dia linn,
Agus cuirim coimrí a n-anama ort, a Mhuire Bhantiarna.

A Mhuire Mháthair mhórmhar mhaiseach,
Tú an stór, an lón is an taisce,
Is tú an réalt eolais romhainn ins gach bealach,
I ngleann na ndeor, ó, treoraigh an peacach,
I sliabh na mbrón, fóir ar a n-anam.

Mar is peacachaí muide atá ag tarraingt gach lá ar bhás,
Agus cuirim coimrí a n-anama ort, a Athair Mhic Dé na nGrást,
Ná tabhair breith dhamanta ar a n-anam ar uair a mbáis. Áiméan.

Translation

Translation in hand. Aistriúchán go Béarla idir lámha.

Footnotes

= d(h)ár. Cf. Ruairí Ó hUiginn, 'Gaeilge Chonnacht', in Kim McCone et al., Stair na Gaeilge (Maigh Nuad, 1994), 539-609: 598. Cf. infra: a n-anama, a n-anam, a mbáis (= ár n-anama, ár n-anam, ár mbáis). (Back)

Commentary

Other versions of lines 1-4 appear in Dubhghlas de hÍde, Abhráin diadha chúige Connacht (2 vols, London and Dublin, 1906), vol. 1, 360-2, 372; Tomás Ó Broin, 'Dhá shean-phaidir', Béaloideas 6 (1936), 93; and in the prayer beginning 'Paidrín Pháirteach i dTeampall Dé' recited by Pádraig Ó Meadhra in the Doegen collection. Versions of lines 8-10 appear in Abhráin diadha chúige Connacht, vol. 1, 372, and in Seósamh Ó Flannagáin, 'Sean-phaidreacha ó Árainn', Béaloideas 7 (1937), 185-90: 187-8.

Title in English: The prayer of the garden of Paradise
Digital version published by: Doegen Records Web Project, Royal Irish Academy

Description of the Recording:

Speaker: Mícheál Ó Concheanainn from Co. Galway
Person who made the recording: Karl Tempel
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 16-09-1930 at 12:15:00 in University College, Galway. Recorded on 16-09-1930 at 12:15:00 in University College, Galway.
Archive recording (ID LA_1153d1, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal Irish Academy) is 01:03 minutes long. Archive recording (ID LA_1153d1, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal Irish Academy) is 01:03 minutes long.
User recording (ID LA_1153d1, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal Irish Academy) is 00:58 minutes long. User recording (ID LA_1153d1, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal Irish Academy) is 00:58 minutes long.