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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
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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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