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Speech, Song and Lilting: Untitled [Part Two of the first of two lectures in Irish given by Seamus Ennis to trainee schoolteachers; subject: children's songs, adult nonsense and extemporised verses, stories and lullabies; with singing and story-telling by Ennis in Irish, English and Scots Gaelic; topics: continuation from 1245a-ITMA-CS/CDR, track 1 of a story and song about a travelling man who visits a house – the man of the house sings a lullaby to the child, and in the words of the lullaby tells his wife that she has given too much butter to the visitor; song 'Bean Phaidin', about an envied woman, who is married to a rich man; wandering poets; song composed by a wandering thresher (suistear), who was hungry at his work; song 'Johnny Seoighe', written in famine times in praise of a distributor of Indian meal (min bhui), from whom the poet wanted to receive favourable treatment; a story that SE collected in Scotland in 1946, about a magic hood; lullaby 'An Seanduine', collected by Elizabeth Cronin, sung first solo and then with the audience; an announcement by an unidentified person [Carysfort College staff member?]; SE sings 'Amhran na hEala' with the audience]
Ennis, Seamus, singing in Irish, English and Scots GaelicUnidentified performer - speech in Irish