{"id":398,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/fair-of-tullamore-the\/"},"modified":"2021-03-30T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T10:41:55","slug":"fair-of-tullamore-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/fair-of-tullamore-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair of Tullamore, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Fair of Tullamore, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-398-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/fair-of-tullamore-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/fair-of-tullamore-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/fair-of-tullamore-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/fair-of-tullamore-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> Fair of Tullamore, 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> 853916.<\/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> 34587.<\/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> song.<\/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> Lucy Simpson.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 02\/09\/1980.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, 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>This man was going to the fair in Tullamore. Tullamore is a little town in Offaly, one of the counties in Ireland, Offaly they call it. Other times they call it Queen&#8217;s County one time. But anyway, he went into a house to light his pipe, he met a lassie and he fell in love. And after that he always rambled down the little boreen<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup> where he met the girl. Right? And this is the song:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Twas on a summer&#8217;s morning in the merry month of May<br \/>\nI was coming from the fair of Tullamore<br \/>\nI was driving home a pretty pair of heifers by the way<br \/>\nWhen by chance I stood outside a cabin door.<br \/>\nI went in to light my pipe, just as any man would do,<br \/>\nComing or a-going to a fair,<br \/>\nThere I spied a lovely colleen with blue eyes and golden hair<br \/>\nOh, begorra, I says, I&#8217;ll have you for me wife.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I love to ramble down the old boreen<br \/>\nWhere the hawthorn blossoms are in bloom<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll sit on a seat by the old rustic gate<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll whisper love to Kate Muldoon.<\/p>\n<p>I was threshing in my barn when her father came to me<br \/>\nSaying, &#8216;Micky McGilligan, what is this I hear?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been speaking to me daughter and she told me every word,&#8217;<br \/>\nAnd then, begorra, me heart felt fairly queer.<br \/>\nThe next time I met her, I told her of my love,<br \/>\nShe blushed and nearly let her basket fall;<br \/>\n&#8216;Oh,&#8217; said she, &#8216;Go on, you schemer!&#8217; with a gentle little push;<br \/>\nBut she added, &#8216;Ask my father!&#8217; &#8211; That was all.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. From the Irish <i class=\"cor-cainte-teangan-eile\">b\u00f3ithr\u00edn<\/i> (&#8216;little road&#8217;). This anglicisation still has currency throughout Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>A sentimental song, probably early 20th century, likely composed in America for the Irish-American music-hall. Joe gives no indication where he learned it, but indicates that he saw it \u2014 possibly with a different air \u2014 in a &#8216;dulcimer book&#8217; that Lucy had shown him at one stage.<\/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":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amhrain","category-amhrain-i-mbearla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}