Shiúil mé Éire a thiomallta - Eilis Ní Chleircín
Thu, 10/11/2012 - 14:01 | by Eoghan
= breáthacht. Cf. Alf Sommerfelt, The dialect of Torr, county Donegal (Christiania, 1922), § 39. (Back)
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Transcript
Shiúil mé Éire a thiomallta[1]
(is na bóithre go rabh mé i Lunainn thall),
Agus ar mo chuairt ag tilleadh domh go Condae Thír Eoghain,
Sin an news a bhí sna bealaí sin fá bhreáthachta[2] Níon Uí Cheallaigh,
Gur mhíle bhfearr a samhail í ná Níon Iarla Tír Eoghain.
Translation
I walked around Ireland and the roads until I reached London yonder (?),
And when I returned on a visit to County Tyrone,
This is the news that was in those parts about the beauty of O'Kelly's
daughter,
That she was a thousand times better looking than the daughter of the Earl of
Tyrone.
Footnotes
= thimpeall. Cf. Nils M. Holmer, On some relics of the Irish dialect spoken in the glens of Antrim (Uppsala, 1940), 131. (Back)= breáthacht. Cf. Alf Sommerfelt, The dialect of Torr, county Donegal (Christiania, 1922), § 39. (Back)
Commentary
This is a verse from the love song 'Neilidh Óg Ní Cheallaigh' which appears in Énrí Ó Muirgheasa, Dhá chéad de cheoltaibh Uladh (Dublin, 1934), 429-31. It was given to Ó Muirgheasa by Dr Séamus Ó Ceallaigh (James O'Kelly) who collected it in Glenconkeyne, county Derry. According to John O'Donovan (Ordnance Survey Letters), the O'Kellys were the 'hereditary Seanchies' (i.e. custodians of tradition) of Glenconkeyne (quoted by Ó Muirgheasa).
Title in English: I walked around Ireland
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 24-09-1931 at 13:30:00 in Queen's
University, Belfast. Recorded on 24-09-1931 at 13:30:00 in Queen's
University, Belfast.
Archive recording (ID LA_1213d4, from a shellac disk stored at the
Royal Irish Academy) is 00:25 minutes
long. Archive recording (ID LA_1213d4, from a shellac disk stored at the
Royal Irish Academy) is 00:25 minutes
long.
Second archive recording (ID LA_1213b4, from a shellac disc stored in
Belfast) is 00:25 minutes long. Second archive recording (ID LA_1213b4, from a shellac disc stored in
Belfast) is 00:25 minutes long.
User recording (ID LA_1213d4, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal
Irish Academy) is 00:23 minutes long. User recording (ID LA_1213d4, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal
Irish Academy) is 00:23 minutes long.
