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Speech, Song and Lilting: Untitled [Part One 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: purpose of the lecture – to interest the audience in this kind of material in order for them to impart it to their pupils; music a conducting medium for such material; verses composed to disparage neighbours; song 'I went to the fair of Kilkenny'; song 'Fuisce o rowlaway rowlaway'; lilting and nonsense words to dance tunes common in Scotland; example from Colm O Caoidhean, who was illiterate – 'Na Ceannabhain Bhana'; dandling song 'Digis o deamhais'; example from Feenish Island, 'Si do Mhaimeo I' (melody: Cailleach an Airgid / The Hag with the Money); example from Maoinis 'Ton an Aircin – Ton = diminutive for Tony; 'An Ceallaichin Fionn', from Connemara; example from Scotland, 'Amhran na hEala / The Swan's Song' – the swan sings only when dying – the song, with verses in Scots Gaelic and English – SE teaches the song to the audience; Caoine na Maighdine / Ri na hAoine; verses concerning a Connemara boatman who sailed to Co Clare to sell turf, got drunk, and was mocked by local people; a song that is the origin of the previous; a dispute in verse between a Connemara business man, Tomas O Bia, and his boatman, who got drunk and spent the money he received for turf; 'Moll Roe', with words in Irish and English; example from Scotland of nonsense words to a dance tune; another of the same; a lament (in the local dialect of Irish) from the Claddagh in Galway city, sung by a woman whose husband has died; story and song about a travelling man who visits a house (incomplete)]

Ennis, Seamus - lilting
Ennis, Seamus - speech in Irish
Ennis, Seamus, singing in Irish, English and Scots Gaelic

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

Speech, Song and Lilting: Untitled [Part One of the second of two lectures in Irish given by Seamus Ennis to trainee schoolteachers; subject: children's songs, adult nonesense and extemporised verses, stories and lullabies; with singing and story-telling by Ennis in Irish, English and Scots Gaelic; topics: lullaby 'An Seanduine' [collected from Elizabeth Cronin]; lullaby 'Anonn is anall'; song/luibin 'Luibin o Lu'; song 'Deoin du o deighdil o'; lore and songs to do with the cuckoo – 'Cuach Mo Londubh Bui' and the background to the song – a relevant song in Welsh – one in Scots Gaelic – the song 'Bunclody'; 'An Chead La de Nollaig', a version in Irish of 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'; the song 'Peigi na gCarad' and the story that is the background to it; 'An Cailin Rua' [melody: Finnegan's Wake]; 'Taid na Baid go Doimhin sa bhFarraige' [melody: Lannigan's Ball]; lore about faction fights – song 'Is Buachaill o Chluain Meala Me'; lore about fish, and the song 'The Herring Song' / 'The Song of the Herring' (repeated line in chorus: 'Sing aberum fane, sing abero ling'); one could be executed for a crime like stealing – relevant song beginning 'An la sin a d'fhag me sraid an Chlochain Leith', collected from Hiudai Devanney [melody: Enniskillen Dragoons]; song about clogs (shoes with wooden soles)]

Ennis, Seamus - lilting
Ennis, Seamus - speech in Irish
Ennis, Seamus, singing in Irish, English, Scots Gaelic and Welsh

Speech, Song and Lilting: Untitled [Part Two of the second of two lectures in Irish given by Seamus Ennis to trainee schoolteachers; subject: children's songs, adult nonesense and extemporised verses, stories and lullabies; with singing and story-telling by Ennis in Irish, English and Scots Gaelic; topics: continuation from 1246a-ITMA-CS/CDR, track 1 of discussion of meaning of phrase 'O bhean an ti, cen bhuairt sin ort' in songs – stock phrase used to give singer or song extemporiser time to think of what comes next; background to song 'Amhran na Leabhar / Cuan Bheil Inse' and performance of it; 'Bim-se istoice ag ol' [melody: Moll Roe]; Rilam Ralam – vocables used in Scotland for cantaireacht (the vocal rendering of piping music) – sung examples given, including the reel 'Clagar na gCearc'; song popular among members of the Claisceadal, 'A shaighdiuirin a chroi'; American folksong learned from Library of Congress records sent to the Irish Folklore Commission by Alan Lomax – a version of the same song, 'Soldier, Soldier' as collected from Colm O Caoidheain, who did not understand English, and for whom SE had to translate the lyrics into Irish; lore about Mikey Byrnes, An Rinn, Co Waterford, song-writer and pyromaniac – song, 'The Racket' composed by him; song, 'An tSean-bhean Bhocht'; 'Brachan Lom' (= porridge), sung words to a dance tune; Amhran na hEala / The Swan's Song]

Ennis, Seamus, singing in Irish, English, Scots Gaelic and WelshUnidentified performer - speech in Irish

Speech: Untitled [Brief; introductory, at start of lecture?]

Ennis, Seamus