{"id":401,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/road-to-america-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T14:28:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:28:18","slug":"road-to-america-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/road-to-america-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to America, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Road to America, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-401-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/road-to-america-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/road-to-america-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/road-to-america-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/road-to-america-the.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> Road to America, The.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 855404.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> story.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> Robin Hiteshew.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 12\/11\/1981.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Philadelphia, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> O\u00edche Cois Tine.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Joe tells of hearing a politician promise that, if elected, he would take all the rocks out of Conamara and build a road to America. &#8216;Needless to say,&#8217; says Joe, &#8216;he wasn&#8217;t elected &#8211; and the rocks are still there.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>Liam Mac Con Iomaire, in his biography Seosamh \u00d3 h\u00c9ana\u00ed: N\u00e1r fh\u00e1gha m\u00e9 b\u00e1s cho\u00edche, reports that this suggestion was actually made by James Dillon, T.D., a Fine Gael member of D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann, the Irish parliament. Referring to Mongan&#8217;s Hotel (now Tigh Mheaic) in Carna, he says (p. 92):<\/p>\n<p>Chaitheadh polaiteoir\u00ed \u00f3 Chumann na nGaedheal, agus \u00f3 Fhine Gael ina dhiaidh sin, laethanta saoire ann, agus is ann a casadh a bhean ar James Dillon, an fear a mhol sa D\u00e1il (tar \u00e9is saoire a chaitheamh i gCarna, b&#8217;fh\u00e9idir!) gur cheart b\u00f3thar a dh\u00e9anamh go Meirice\u00e1 lena bhfuil de chlocha i gConamara. Ba mhinic a dh\u00e9anadh Seosamh \u00d3 h\u00c9ana\u00ed tagairt d\u00f3 sin i Meirice\u00e1 n\u00edos deireana\u00ed, c\u00e9 nach luadh s\u00e9 ainm James Dillon leis, ach &#8216;a certain politician&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>[<i class=\"treaslitri\u00fa\">Politicians from Cumann na nGaedheal, and from Fine Gael after that, used to spend their holidays there, and that&#8217;s where James Dillon &#8211; the man who recommended in the D\u00e1il (having spent his holidays in Carna, perhaps!) that it would be a good idea to build a road to America with all the rocks that are in Conamara &#8211; met his wife. Joe Heaney often referred to [Dillon&#8217;s remark] in the States later on, though he wouldn&#8217;t mention James Dillon by name, but rather &#8216;a certain politician&#8217;.<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>Joe often referred to this story as part of his introduction to &#8216;The Rocks of Bawn.&#8217; It may say something about the behaviour of politicians the world over that this anecdote represents an international tale-type, AT 1830.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amhrain","category-amhrain-i-mbearla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}