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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
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Copied from the first of two cassettes loaned in August 2004 by John Congrave (Department of Mathematics, St. Patricks College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9)
Digitised direct to CDR from cassette and catalogued by Jackie Small, September 2004.
Imported from Reeldubs July 2013
Digitised directly from cassette to CDR, September 2004
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Cassette inlay: 'Seamus Ennis at / Carysfort. Thursday / 22nd February 1979' ; Cassette inlay spine: 'S. ENNIS at CARYSFORT . (1)' ; Cassette: ; On side 1: '1. CARYSFORT - ONE' ; On side 2: '2' ; Business card for John Cosgrave, who loaned the cassette.
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