{"id":402,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/noblemans-wedding-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T13:26:59","slug":"noblemans-wedding-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/noblemans-wedding-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobleman&#8217;s Wedding, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Nobleman&#8217;s Wedding, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-402-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/noblemans-wedding-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/noblemans-wedding-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/noblemans-wedding-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/noblemans-wedding-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> Nobleman&#8217;s Wedding, 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> 781504.<\/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> 567.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> P31.<\/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> song.<\/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> Esther Warkov.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 06\/03\/1978.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> University of Washington, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> interview.<\/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>This is a girl, you see, she was intended to marry somebody else, you know, and she married another man. And at the wedding, the man she was- wanted to marry, you see, came to the wedding. And&hellip; he was asked to sing a song, and the song he sang was of the days that were gone. And he said to her, &#8216;How can you sit at another man&#8217;s table? How can you drink of another man&#8217;s wine? How can you go to the arms of another, you being so long a sweetheart of mine?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I was once invited to a nobleman&#8217;s wedding<br \/>\nAll that were there were to sing just one song<br \/>\nThe first one to sing was the bride&#8217;s former lover<br \/>\nThe song that he sang were &#8216;Of Days That Were Gone.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;How can I sit at another man&#8217;s table?<br \/>\nHow can I drink of another man&#8217;s wine?<br \/>\nHow can you go to the arms of another<br \/>\nYou being so long a sweetheart of mine?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This maiden was sitting at the head of the table<br \/>\nHearing those words, she remembered them well<br \/>\nHearing those words, she no longer could stand it<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s down at the foot of the table she fell.<\/p>\n<p>[One request, one request, from you that I&#8217;m asking<br \/>\nThe first and the last, this favour shall be<br \/>\nAnd that is the first night to lie with my mother<br \/>\nAll the rest of my days I will lie beside thee.]<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Sighing and sobbing she arose from the table<br \/>\nSighing and sobbing she went up to bed<br \/>\nAnd early next morning when her husband awakened<br \/>\nHe went to embrace her and found she was dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Oh Molly, lovely Molly, oh cruel-hearted Molly<br \/>\nYour love and my love could never agree&#8217;<br \/>\nWhen I separated yourself and your Johnny<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas then I separated the bark from the tree.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. This stanza, not included in the present recording, is taken from the recording Joe made for Peter Kennedy; see below.<\/p>\n<p>Joe seems to be explaining to the interviewer here that, although this is a sad song, it was one that was often sung during wedding celebrations at home.<\/p>\n<p>On another occasion, Joe told Lucy Simpson (UW85-39.1-2) that he heard this song from a number of people at home, including his father, his aunt, his cousin Colm Keane (Colm \u00d3 Caodh\u00e1in), and his next-door neighbour, Se\u00e1n Choilm Mac Donncha.<\/p>\n<p>The song is transcribed &#8211; tune included &#8211; from a performance Joe recorded for Peter Kennedy of the BBC in 1959; see Peter Kennedy (ed.), Folksongs of Britain and Ireland, Oak Publications (1975), No. 164, p. 364 and note. On that occasion, Joe told Kennedy that he had learned the song from his father just before he died in 1937: &#8216;I heard him singing that since I was knee high but only picked up bits of it. There&#8217;s more of it than that. He sang at night. He&#8217;d go through them one after the other. Never stop singing. Never. He was always singing or humming. Always. Never stopped. I was ten years old (sic) when he died. I had very few of them learned. He was a small farmer, that&#8217;s all. Very small. The land there is hopeless. It is hard to believe that anyone can exist there.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This song was recorded while Joe was Artist in Residence at University of Washington.<\/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-402","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\/402","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=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}