Is mé an peacach bocht - Nellie McConnell

Thu, 10/11/2012 - 14:03 | by Eoghan

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Transcript

Is peacach bocht faoi ualach throm mé,
Ar mhéad mo pheacaí is aithreach liom,
Aidím[1] creideamh Dé go síor
Le grá mo chroí le dóchas fíor,
Ó chois na croiche glaoim suas
Chuig Íosa ár dTiarna, "Claon orainn anuas!"

Fáilte, a Mhuire, a Mhaighdean (Dhil),
A sciath mhór na ngrást,
(...)
Tabhair greim don bhocht, don dall a shúil,
A Mháthair Mhór, (is airde rún),
(Fáilte) (...).

Footnotes

= admhaím. Cf. Alf Sommerfelt, The dialect of Torr, Co. Donegal (Christiania, 1922), § 455. (Back)

Commentary

A longer version of this prayer appears in Énrí Ó Muirgheasa, Dánta diadha Uladh (Dublin, 1936), 205-6. A version of the first verse appears in Diarmuid Ó Laoghaire, Ár bpaidreacha dúchais (Dublin, 1975), 53. For the second verse, cf. Douglas Hyde, Abhráin diadha chúige Connacht (2 vols, London and Dublin, 1906), vol. 1, 390-3.

Title in English: I am the poor sinner
Digital version published by: Doegen Records Web Project, Royal Irish Academy

Description of the Recording:

Speaker: Nellie McConnell from Co. Donegal
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 03-10-1931 at 11:30:00 in Courthouse, Letterkenny. Recorded on 03-10-1931 at 11:30:00 in Courthouse, Letterkenny.
Archive recording (ID LA_1259d2, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal Irish Academy) is 00:28 minutes long. Archive recording (ID LA_1259d2, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal Irish Academy) is 00:28 minutes long.
Second archive recording (ID LA_1259b2, from a shellac disc stored in Belfast) is 00:28 minutes long. Second archive recording (ID LA_1259b2, from a shellac disc stored in Belfast) is 00:28 minutes long.
User recording (ID LA_1259d2, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal Irish Academy) is 00:28 minutes long. User recording (ID LA_1259d2, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal Irish Academy) is 00:28 minutes long.

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