Bhí bean ann uair amháin - Eilis Ní Chleircín
Thu, 10/11/2012 - 14:05 | by Eoghan
= 'lumps'/'warts'/'bunions'? Cf. Heinrich Wagner and Colm Ó Baoill, Linguistic atlas and survey of Irish dialects (4 vols, Dublin, 1958-69) vol. 4, 286, n. 4, and Róise Ní Bhaoill, Ulster Gaelic voices: bailiúchán Doegen 1931 (Belfast, 2010), 344-5. Leg. iteannadh (variant of faithneadh)? (Back)
Leg. an gasúr? (Back)
Leg. fogh? Cf. Seosamh Laoide, Sgéalaidhe Oirghiall (Dublin, 1905), 138. (Back)
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Transcript
Bhí seanbhean am amháin agus fuaigh sí aire[1] chéilí go Condae Thír Eoghain. Agus an toigh a chuaigh sí ann bhí dhá ghasúr ann. Agus bhí sí cosnochtaithe agus bhíodh (íceannú)[2] ar a cosa. Bhí dhá ghasúr insa toigh agus arsa aon ghasúr[3] amháin leis an cheann eile, "Fagh[4] an tua, a Phádraig, go ngearramuid na préataí beaga de na cosa aici."
Translation
There once was an old woman and she went to a céilí dance in County Tyrone. And there were two boys in the house she went into. And she was barelegged and there were warts on her feet. There were two boys in the house and one boy said to the other, "Get the axe, Patrick, so that we can cut the little potatoes off her feet."
Footnotes
= ar. Cf. Art Hughes, 'Gaeilge Uladh', in Kim McCone et al., Stair na Gaeilge (Maigh Nuad, 1994), 611-60: 658. (Back)= 'lumps'/'warts'/'bunions'? Cf. Heinrich Wagner and Colm Ó Baoill, Linguistic atlas and survey of Irish dialects (4 vols, Dublin, 1958-69) vol. 4, 286, n. 4, and Róise Ní Bhaoill, Ulster Gaelic voices: bailiúchán Doegen 1931 (Belfast, 2010), 344-5. Leg. iteannadh (variant of faithneadh)? (Back)
Leg. an gasúr? (Back)
Leg. fogh? Cf. Seosamh Laoide, Sgéalaidhe Oirghiall (Dublin, 1905), 138. (Back)
Commentary
This is one of several stories in the Doegen collection recorded from the repertoire of Eilis Ní Chleircín that appear to be told solely for humour or amusement, but do not appear to be of any further 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, 286, and in Róise Ní Bhaoill, Ulster Gaelic voices: bailiúchán Doegen 1931 (Belfast, 2010), 344-5.
Title in English: There once was a woman
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_1213d5, from a shellac disk stored at the
Royal Irish Academy) is 00:33 minutes
long. Archive recording (ID LA_1213d5, from a shellac disk stored at the
Royal Irish Academy) is 00:33 minutes
long.
Second archive recording (ID LA_1213b5, from a shellac disc stored in
Belfast) is 00:34 minutes long. Second archive recording (ID LA_1213b5, from a shellac disc stored in
Belfast) is 00:34 minutes long.
User recording (ID LA_1213d5, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal
Irish Academy) is 00:32 minutes long. User recording (ID LA_1213d5, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal
Irish Academy) is 00:32 minutes long.
