Scéal Mháirí Bheag Ní Cheallaigh - Eilis Ní Chleircín
Thu, 10/11/2012 - 14:01 | by Eoghan
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Transcript
Bhí Máirí Bheag Ní Cheallaigh (aon) lá amháin agus fuaigh sí isteach go toigh (Th)adhg (Ma)g Alastair. Agus bhí Tadhg 'na shuí ag an tinidh agus bhí sé ag caoineadh. Agus arsa Máirí leis, "Thadhg, a chroidhe, goidé tá contráilte leat?"
Agus ar seisean léithe, "Á, a Mháirí, a chroidhe, chaill mé mo shean(dhuine) mhuinteartha, mo fhiacail."
"Á, ná bí buartha ina thimcheallt, ná bí ag caoineadh na thimcheallt. B'fhéadar gur... B'fhéadar nach rabh sí ceann mhaith. An rabh sí ag crathadh ag an bhun?"
Translation
One day Little Mary Kelly went into Tadhg McAllister's house. And Tadhg was sitting by the fire and he was crying. And Mary said to him, "Tadhg, my dear, what's wrong with you?"
And he said to her, "Ah, Mary, my dear, I lost my old friend, my tooth."
"Ah, don't fret about it, don't cry about it. Maybe... Maybe it wasn't a good one. Was it shaking at the root?"
Commentary
The material in the Doegen collection from Eilis Ní Chleircín contains several short anecdotes of the kind above, which appear to be told for the sake of humour or amusement, and do not seem to have any deeper folkloric significance.
This item is transcribed also in Heinrich Wagner and Colm Ó Baoill, Linguistic atlas and survey of Irish dialects (4 vols, Dublin, 1958-69), vol. 4, 285, and in Róise Ní Bhaoill, Ulster Gaelic voices: bailiúchán Doegen 1931 (Belfast, 2010), 338-9.
Title in English: The story of little Mary Kelly
Digital version published by: Doegen Records Web Project, Royal Irish Academy
Description of the Recording:
Speaker:
Eilis
Ní Chleircín from Co.
Derry
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 23-09-1931 at 19:00:00 in Queen's
University, Belfast. Recorded on 23-09-1931 at 19:00:00 in Queen's
University, Belfast.
Archive recording (ID LA_1208d3, from a shellac disk stored at the
Royal Irish Academy) is 00:39 minutes
long. Archive recording (ID LA_1208d3, from a shellac disk stored at the
Royal Irish Academy) is 00:39 minutes
long.
Second archive recording (ID LA_1208b3, from a shellac disc stored in
Belfast) is 00:40 minutes long. Second archive recording (ID LA_1208b3, from a shellac disc stored in
Belfast) is 00:40 minutes long.
User recording (ID LA_1208d3, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal
Irish Academy) is 00:39 minutes long. User recording (ID LA_1208d3, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal
Irish Academy) is 00:39 minutes long.
