{"id":672,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/four-hunchbacks-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:28:07","slug":"four-hunchbacks-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/four-hunchbacks-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Hunchbacks, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Four Hunchbacks, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-672-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/four-hunchbacks-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/four-hunchbacks-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/four-hunchbacks-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/four-hunchbacks-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> Four Hunchbacks, 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> 781515.<\/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> Cynthia Thiessen.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 06\/03\/1978 &#8211; 07\/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> 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> Fredric Lieberman.<\/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>In response to a question about his story, The Two Hunchbacks, Joe launches into a summary of a funny play he remembers, Na Cruiteach\u00e1in. This is a one-act verse play by Pierre Jalabert, La Farce des Bossus, published in 1933 and translated into Irish by Liam \u00d3 Briain, which tells the story of a woman married to a hunchback. He has a bad temper, and she is tired of him. One night when he is out, there comes a knock at the door &#8211; and it&#8217;s another hunchback. &#8216;As long as it&#8217;s not my husband,&#8217; she thinks, &#8216;he might as well come in.&#8217; The two are sitting over a bottle of wine, when another knock comes to the door. Fearing her husband&#8217;s return, she hides her visitor in a cupboard. When she opens the door &#8211; there is yet another hunchback. The same thing happens: they sit down with a glass of wine, another knock is heard, and once again she hides the second fellow in the cupboard along with the first one. But once again, it&#8217;s not her husband, but a third hunchback. They follow the same routine, and when the door-knocker goes again, she shoves him into the cupboard with the first two.<\/p>\n<p>This time it is her husband, who is glad to see that she has been behaving herself while he has been out. He goes out again, whereupon she opens the cupboard so that she can clear the house of strange men before he returns for the night. All three of the visitors fall out of the cupboard, stone dead.<\/p>\n<p>Now she has the problem of disposing of the bodies. She calls in a spailp\u00edn &#8211; an itinerant labourer &#8211; and asks if he&#8217;d like to earn a pound. She tells him her husband has died, and she&#8217;s afraid that the neighbours will accuse her of killing him, and would he take the body away and bury it someplace? He agrees. When he comes back for his wages, however, there&#8217;s another body there &#8211; another hunchback &#8211; and the wife tells him, &#8216;You didn&#8217;t bury him deep enough &#8211; he came back!&#8217; He drags the second corpse away with him; but when he returns for payment the same scene unfolds. Finally he has buried the same man &#8211; as he thinks &#8211; three times, and goes back to the &#8216;widow&#8217; for payment, only to find her seated at the table drinking wine with a hunchback. Assuming it&#8217;s the same man come back to life yet again, the spailp\u00edn flies into a rage and beats the woman&#8217;s husband to death.<\/p>\n<p>Free of hunchbacked suitors at last, the widow and the spailp\u00edn get married and live happily ever after.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>Joe tells this story elsewhere, with some elaborations not included here.<\/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-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scealaiocht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}