{"id":487,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/fionn-mac-cumhaill-4\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:21:53","slug":"fionn-mac-cumhaill-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/fionn-mac-cumhaill-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Fionn Mac Cumhaill (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Fionn Mac Cumhaill (4)<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-487-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/fionn-mac-cumhaill-4.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/fionn-mac-cumhaill-4.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/fionn-mac-cumhaill-4.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/fionn-mac-cumhaill-4.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> Fionn Mac Cumhaill (4).<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 840106.<\/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> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 11\/10\/1983.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> University of Pennsylvania, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> evening 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> 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 segment, Joe tells a number of stories relating to this mythical hero.<\/p>\n<h2>Fionn Mac Cumhaill defends Tara and becomes chieftain of the Fianna<\/h2>\n<p>Years after his father&#8217;s death at the hands of Goll Mac Morna, Fionn returns to Tara to assume his birthright as leader of Fianna \u00c9ireann. Before he can do so, however, he must overcome the depradations of a fearsome magician who terrorizes all of Tara once a year.<\/p>\n<h2>Ois\u00edn and Niamh of the Golden Hair<\/h2>\n<p>One day when Fionn and his son Ois\u00edn are walking by the banks of Loch L\u00e9in, they see a woman riding towards them on a beautiful white horse. The woman has beautiful long blond hair, but she has a pig&#8217;s face. When the woman comes alongside, she speaks to them and tells Fionn that she is in love with Ois\u00edn, and wants to take him with her to the Land of the Ever Young (T\u00edr na n\u00d3g). The Fianna being known for chivalry, Ois\u00edn kisses the woman, pig&#8217;s head and all; and with that, the spell is broken and the pig&#8217;s head vanishes, revealing a lovely young woman &#8211; Niamh of the Golden Hair &#8211; who has been put under an enchantment by her evil stepmother. Although Fionn is broken-hearted to lose his son, Ois\u00edn leaves with Niamh and they go to the Land of the Ever Young, where the stepmother is killed, and Ois\u00edn is made king. After what Ois\u00edn thinks is a couple of months, he wants to go back and see his father. She implores him not to go, that there would be nobody there anyway, as Ois\u00edn has been with her for two hundred years. Eventually she agrees to give him the white horse to go to Ireland; but if he allows his foot to touch the ground, he will never be able to return to her.<\/p>\n<p>When he reaches Ireland, he learns that the Fianna have all been killed in a battle. The people he meets appear to be dwarves, and while he is helping some men roll a stone down a hill, the girth of his saddle breaks and he falls to the ground, and in that moment he becomes a very old man.<\/p>\n<h2>Ois\u00edn and St Patrick<\/h2>\n<p>At about the time of Ois\u00edn&#8217;s return from the Land of the Ever Young, St Patrick is at work in Ireland. Hearing about Ois\u00edn, St Patrick goes to see him. They have a conversation about God, and Ois\u00edn explains about the gods of the Fianna. Patrick then asks Ois\u00edn how the Fianna regulated their lives, in the absence of God. Ois\u00edn explains about their honesty, their dignity, their way of life. &#8216;We had three things,&#8217; Ois\u00edn said. Gloineacht \u00e1r gcro\u00ed &#8211; the purity of our hearts; neart \u00e1r ng\u00e9ag &#8211; the strength of our arms; and beart de r\u00e9ir \u00e1r mbriathar &#8211; deed according to word.<\/p>\n<p>Ois\u00edn is astonished to hear Patrick say that Fionn and the Fianna are all in hell. &#8216;There isn&#8217;t a devil born,&#8217; he said, &#8216;who&#8217;ll keep that crowd locked up.&#8217; Eventually Patrick proves his point by opening hell to Oisin&#8217;s sight. There is Goll Mac Morna, beating off the devils with a flail &#8211; but the devils are giving as good as they are getting from him, blow for blow. St Patrick tells Ois\u00edn that although he cannot get the Fianna out of hell, he will grant Ois\u00edn one wish to make life easier for them. Ois\u00edn requests that an acre of green sod from the hill of Tara be placed under Goll Mac Morna&#8217;s right foot, sand from the strand at Howth round about him, and that his flail should deliver one hundred blows to the devils&#8217; one blow. St Patrick expresses surprise that Ois\u00edn should not have wished for them to be in hell forever without pain; but Ois\u00edn assures him that this is what the Fianna would want for themselves.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>With regard to the story about Niamh, note that Joe tells other stories involving the enchantment of people into different forms: see The Seal-Woman, The Woman Who Removed a Thorn From a Seal&#8217;s fin, and The Twelve Swans. In The Witch in the Stone Boat, the enchanted character is the witch herself.<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scealaiocht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}