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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
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Copied from the second 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. Tuesday / 27th February 1979 // Thanks very much for the compliment / of the autograph' ; Cassette inlay spine: 'S. ENNIS at CARYSFORT . (2)' ; Cassette: ; On side 1: 'SEAMUS ENNIS in / CARYSFORT - TWO // 1' ; On side 2: '2'
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