{"id":432,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/deirdre-and-the-sons-of-uisne\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T10:08:00","slug":"deirdre-and-the-sons-of-uisne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/deirdre-and-the-sons-of-uisne\/","title":{"rendered":"Deirdre and the Sons of Uisne"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Deirdre and the Sons of Uisne<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-432-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/deirdre-and-the-sons-of-uisne.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/deirdre-and-the-sons-of-uisne.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/deirdre-and-the-sons-of-uisne.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/deirdre-and-the-sons-of-uisne.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> Deirdre and the Sons of Uisne.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 840107.<\/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> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 18\/10\/1983.<\/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> evening class.<\/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>Deirdre is the daughter of Mannan\u00e1n Mac Lir, king of the sea. One day, Manann\u00e1n hears the child calling from his wife&#8217;s womb. The voice &#8211; a girl&#8217;s voice &#8211; tells him that her name will be Deirdre, and that two thirds of the men of Ulster, one third of the men of Ireland, and the three sons of Uisne will all die because of her. Determined to prevent this calamity, he decides to destroy the child when she&#8217;s born, but is prevented from doing this by King Conchubhair, who subsequently takes her to raise himself.<\/p>\n<p>Deirdre grows up to be the most beautiful woman in the world, and Conchubhair decides that when she grows up he&#8217;s going to marry her himself. He sequesters her from seeing any other men. One day, while looking out the window, she sees a crow lying killed in the snow, and says she could love a man with hair as black as the crow&#8217;s wing, skin as white as the snow, and cheeks as red as the crow&#8217;s blood in the snow. Her maid tells her that there is such a man, his name is Naoise, one of the three sons of Uisne, but that he is beyond her reach.<\/p>\n<p>By a strategem that she concocts with her maid, Deirdre manages to get sight of Naoise; they fall in love; and Deirdre elopes to Scotland from Conchubhair&#8217;s palace with Naoise and his two brothers. The brothers defend Deirdre from the armies sent against them, but eventually are killed when they are tricked by Conchubhair into coming to stay in a house provided by him &#8211; a house that is roofed with lead. While they are asleep, Conchubhair&#8217;s men set fire to the house, the lead melts, Deirdre is taken captive, and the brothers&#8217; eyes are put out by the molten lead. They put up a huge fight, and kill all of Conchubhair&#8217;s men; but at the end of the battle they don&#8217;t realize that their enemies have all been killed, and they turn their swords on one another. Naoise, at last realizing that he has killed one of his brothers, takes his own life.<\/p>\n<p>Conchubhair thinks that Deirdre will be his own wife at last; but as he and Deirdre are crossing a bridge, Deirdre flings herself from the carriage and onto some rocks below, and dies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>Joe says that he heard the story from a Carna storyteller, and that he believes it can be found in a manuscript collected by the Irish Folklore Commission (Cn\u00faasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann \/ Collection of the Folklore of Ireland, housed at University College Dublin).<\/p>\n<p>Like Joe&#8217;s story about the Naming of C\u00fa Chulainn, this story is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ulster_Cycle\">Ulster Cycle<\/a>, a group of tales preserved in manuscripts in Old Irish that includes the most famous of Irish tales, T\u00e1in B\u00f3 Cuailnge, &#8216;The Cattle-Raid of Cooley.&#8217; The tragedy of Deirdre and the Sons of Uisne provides one of the main justifications for the animosity between the men of Ulster and the men of Connacht, whose battles are the subject matter of the T\u00e1in.<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scealaiocht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}