{"id":1225,"date":"2016-01-17T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T11:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2016-01-17T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T11:27:16","slug":"joe-heaney-early-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/joe-heaney-early-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Heaney: Early Life (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Joe Heaney: Early Life (2)<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1225-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/joe-heaney-early-life-2.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/joe-heaney-early-life-2.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/joe-heaney-early-life-2.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/joe-heaney-early-life-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> Joe Heaney: Early Life (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> 850406.<\/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> Joe&#8217;s background.<\/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> inverview.<\/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 long segment (nearly forty minutes), Joe shares details of his early memories, the mischief he got up to as a boy, economic conditions during his childhood and the ways in which his parents tried to make ends meet. He talks about going to National (primary) School and subsequently to &#8216;college&#8217; &mdash; by which he means secondary school &mdash; in Dublin, and his early departure from there. His departure for &#8216;England&#8217; &mdash; in fact, he went to Scotland where he had relations &mdash; and return at the outbreak of World War 2. The work he did in Ireland before returning to &#8216;England&#8217; (again, Scotland) when peace returned. Topics and anecdotes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The time Joe stole the schoolmaster&#8217;s bicycle.<\/li>\n<li>The time he &#8216;buried&#8217; his sister<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li>How his uncle coached Joe to win a foot-race by cheating.<\/li>\n<li>How his uncle used to stage donkey-races between Joe and his sister.<\/li>\n<li>What Joe remembers about the day he was born; early childhood.<\/li>\n<li>Joe&#8217;s father away working a lot; importance of his grandmother&#8217;s pension money.<\/li>\n<li>Doing jobs for neighbours; close-knit community looking out for one another.<\/li>\n<li>Thatching.<\/li>\n<li>Stories and singing in tigh \u00c9inni\u00fa; mother&#8217;s family known for storytelling, including her uncle Pat M\u00f3r Mhich\u00edl Sh\u00e9amais (Big Pat Mulkerrin), who died young; Joe&#8217;s grandmother used to run a <i class=\"cor-cainte-teangan-eile\">s\u00edb\u00edn<\/i> (a retail outlet for <i class=\"cor-cainte-teangan-eile\">poit\u00edn<\/i>) in the house, and &#8216;that was a draw,&#8217; but she stopped that when her daughter Bairbre married P\u00e1draig \u00c9inni\u00fa and brought him into the house.<\/li>\n<li>First day Joe went to school.<\/li>\n<li>Games played at home.<\/li>\n<li>Joe&#8217;s schoolteacher, Mister Connolly and his wife; taught through medium of English; Joe&#8217;s favourite subjects English grammar and arithmetic; corporal punishment; children brought sod of turf every day to contribute to school heating; some children went <i>miching<\/i> (playing truant); girls and boys in school together; industrial schools &#8216;where the bad boys go&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>What people would do after leaving school.<\/li>\n<li>Importance of remittances from abroad to people living at home.<\/li>\n<li>Necessity of being well-connected in order to get work locally; institution of dole in the 1930s.<\/li>\n<li>Size of Joe&#8217;s family.<\/li>\n<li>How people supported themselves at home; fishing &mdash; but prices were low; Joe&#8217;s father in Scotland for months at a time, came home for good when Joe was about 12, died young; mother had hands full carding wool and knitting, or working for local grocer to pack dried <i class=\"cor-cainte-teangan-eile\">carraig\u00edn<\/i> for sale in return for credit at the shop.<\/li>\n<li>Before- and after school jobs; lobster pots; going with the donkey for turf; &#8216;molding&#8217; potatoes.<\/li>\n<li>Attendance at mass and confession.<\/li>\n<li>College&#8217; in Dublin; &#8216;I dropped out, let&#8217;s put it that way&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>Went to &#8216;England&#8217; until war broke out, worked in construction.<\/li>\n<li>Scallop-fishing at home during the war<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">2<\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li>Cutting turf on the Bog of Allen to keep the trains running.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. One of the stories Joe relates here, about the time he &#8216;buried&#8217; his sister Kitty, became family folklore. Joe&#8217;s niece M\u00e1ire U\u00ed Mhaoilchiar\u00e1in described the occasion to Joe&#8217;s biographer, Liam Mac&nbsp;Con&nbsp;Iomaire (p. 63):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bh\u00ed ar a mh\u00e1thair dul ar shiochraid l\u00e1, agus choinnigh s\u00ed Seosamh sa mbaile \u00f3n scoil le aire a thabhairt don bheirt ab \u00f3ige, Cite agus S\u00edle. Nuair a bh\u00ed an mh\u00e1thair imithe bh\u00ed Cite ag fiafra\u00ed: &#8216;C\u00e9ard \u00e9 sochraid?&#8217; N\u00ed h\u00e9 amh\u00e1in gur mh\u00ednigh Seosamh di \u00e9, ach thaispe\u00e1in s\u00e9 d\u00ed \u00e9! N\u00ed dhearna s\u00e9 ach l\u00e1\u00ed a fh\u00e1il agus poll a thochailt taobh amuigh den teach agus Cite a chur ina seasamh th\u00edos sa bpoll. Nuair a th\u00e1inig an mh\u00e1thair abhaile n\u00ed raibh an\u00edos as an bpoll ach cloigeann Chite!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<i class=\"treaslitri\u00fa\">His mother had to go to a funeral one day, and she kept Joe home from school to look after the youngest two, Kitty and Sheila. When the mother was gone, Kitty was asking, &#8216;What&#8217;s a funeral?&#8217; Not only did Joe explain it to her, he showed her! He got a spade and dug a hole outside the house, and got Kitty to stand in the hole; and when the mother came home the only thing visible outside the hole was Kitty&#8217;s head!<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">2. A description, in Irish, of scallop-dredging methods and the associated dangers can be found in Hartmann, Hans, Tom\u00e1s de Bhaldraithe and Ruair\u00ed \u00d3&nbsp;hUiginn (eds.), Airne\u00e1n: Ein Sammlung von Texten aus Carna, Co. na Gaillimhe, Max Niemeyer Verlag T\u00fcbingen (1996), vol 1, lines 7888-7954.<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culra-joe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","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=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}