{"id":648,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/joe-heaney-the-mermaid-hy-brasail-and-the-leprachaun\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T12:10:18","slug":"joe-heaney-the-mermaid-hy-brasail-and-the-leprachaun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/joe-heaney-the-mermaid-hy-brasail-and-the-leprachaun\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Heaney: The Mermaid, Hy-Brasail and The Leprachaun"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Joe Heaney: The Mermaid, Hy-Brasail and The Leprachaun<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-648-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/joe-heaney-the-mermaid-hy-brasail-and-the-leprachaun.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/joe-heaney-the-mermaid-hy-brasail-and-the-leprachaun.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/joe-heaney-the-mermaid-hy-brasail-and-the-leprachaun.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/joe-heaney-the-mermaid-hy-brasail-and-the-leprachaun.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> Joe Heaney: The Mermaid, Hy-Brasail and The Leprachaun.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 850407.<\/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> Jill Linzee.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> between 1982 and 1984.<\/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> private.<\/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 his own encounters with the supernatural &#8211; all of which he swears really happened.<\/p>\n<h2>The Mermaid<\/h2>\n<p>Joe&#8217;s account of his meeting with the mermaid includes a reference to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cleggan\">Cleggan Disaster<\/a> of 1927, when Joe would have been seven or eight years old.<\/p>\n<h2>Hy-Brasail<\/h2>\n<p>Hy-Brasail, Joe says, is a mythical island that is located between the Aran Islands and Oile\u00e1n Mhic Dara (St Macdara&#8217;s Island). A poem by nineteenth-century poet Gerald Griffin, &#8216;Hy-Brasail, the Isle of the Blest,&#8217; became a fairly standard item when Joe was dealing with otherworld beliefs in his classroom. Hy-Brasail is also connected with lore surrounding the Mahons, a family who were granted healing powers following an encounter with the island<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<h2>The Leprachaun<\/h2>\n<p>As Joe tells it, he had two encounters with leprachauns: the one mentioned here, which he says occurred on the same day that he saw Hy-Brasail; and the second one &#8211; when Joe was presumably somewhat older &#8211; in which a leprachaun hitched a ride home with Joe on a bicycle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. For more about Hy-Brasail (in Irish, &#8216;Beag-\u00c1rainn&#8217; or &#8216;Lesser Aran&#8217;), see Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 Concheanainn, &#8216;Seanchas ar Mhuintir Laidhe&#8217; in \u00c9igse 33 (2002), 179-225; also Daith\u00ed \u00d3 h\u00d3g\u00e1in, &#8216;The Mystical Island in Irish Folklore,&#8217; in P. Lysaght, S. \u00d3 Cath\u00e1in and D. \u00d3 h\u00d3g\u00e1in (eds.), Islanders and Water-Dwellers: Proceedings of the Celtic-Nordic-Baltic Folklore Symposium held at University College Dublin 16-19 June 1996,DBA Publications Ltd. for the Department of Irish Folklore, UCD (1999), 247-60.<\/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-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scealaiocht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}