{"id":1129,"date":"2016-01-17T07:43:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T07:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2016-01-17T07:48:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T07:48:48","slug":"cathal-bui-agus-an-buinnean-bui-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/cathal-bui-agus-an-buinnean-bui-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathal Bu\u00ed agus An Buinne\u00e1n Bu\u00ed (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Cathal Bu\u00ed agus An Buinne\u00e1n Bu\u00ed (2)<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1129-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/cathal-bui-agus-an-buinnean-bui-2.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/cathal-bui-agus-an-buinnean-bui-2.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/cathal-bui-agus-an-buinnean-bui-2.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/cathal-bui-agus-an-buinnean-bui-2.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> Cathal Bu\u00ed agus An Buinne\u00e1n Bu\u00ed (2).<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 841417.<\/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> lore.<\/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> Joan Rabinowitz.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 10\/06\/1983.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Seabold Community Center, Bainbridge Island, 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> concert.<\/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>In this recording, Joe tells the story of the death of Cathal Bu\u00ed Mac Giolla Gunna<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup>, and of how the song An Buinne\u00e1n Bu\u00ed came to be composed.<\/p>\n<p>This song is about Cathal Bu\u00ed Mac Giolla Gunna. &#8216;Yellow&#8217; Cathal Mac Giolla Gunna was a poet in Ulster, in fact he was born in Cavan. And he was a habitual drunkard, and he was excommunicated by the Catholic Church because he kept drinking&hellip; Cathal Bu\u00ed was drinking, and the night he was &mdash; dying, he wanted to send for the priest, but he couldn&#8217;t &mdash; he had nobody to go for the priest. Anyway he was afraid to send for him, because at that time you were dead scared of priests, you know. So the priest was just going to bed when there was a knock on the door, and there was a lady and a child<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">2<\/sup> standing outside the door, and they asked him to go [to] Cathal Bu\u00ed&#8217;s house, that he was dying. And the priest asked them something, and when he looked around, they were gone. So he went to the house, and Cathal Bu\u00ed, &#8216;Thank God&#8217;, he said, &#8216;you came. I was just praying&#8217;, he said, &#8216;that I had somebody to send for you&#8217;. And the priest said, &#8216;You did&#8217; he said &#8216;send somebody for me!&#8217; And Cathal Bu\u00ed said, &#8216;I did not&#8217;. There was no sign of the lady or the boy. Nobody knew who they were.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he went out one morning and he saw the bittern, which is extinct in Ireland at the moment, dead on the lake outside. The lake was frozen, and the bittern was dead. And he was trying to put his beak through the ice to get a drop of water. And he made a song, putting himself in the place of the yellow bittern. And what would happen if I died of thirst? Wouldn&#8217;t it be better to keep on drinking? And make no mistake that I would ever die of thirst. See what happened the yellow bittern? He died because he couldn&#8217;t get a drink. &#8216;Although my sweetheart told me&#8217;, he said &mdash; This; I&#8217;m translating the song for you now, but the song is originally in Irish &mdash; &#8216;she told me not to drink, or I wouldn&#8217;t live long. But I told her that drink makes me healthy, and I&#8217;d rather die drinking than die without it. And there&#8217;s nothing up from heaven or down from heaven I&#8217;d give before I&#8217;d give a drink&#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. Cathal Bu\u00ed Mac Giolla Gunna (1680&ndash;1756). See B. \u00d3 Buachalla (ed.), Cathal Bu\u00ed: Amhr\u00e1in (1975).<\/p>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">2. On another occasion when telling this story, Joe stated explicitely that it was the Blessed Virgin and Christ who called at the priest&#8217;s door.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this version of the story with the one Joe tells in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/cathal-bui-agus-an-buinnean-bui-3\/\">Cathal Bu\u00ed agus an Buinne\u00e1n Bu\u00ed (3)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seanchas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}