{"id":490,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/goban-saor-and-the-king-of-englands-castle-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T11:35:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:35:54","slug":"goban-saor-and-the-king-of-englands-castle-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/goban-saor-and-the-king-of-englands-castle-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Gob\u00e1n Saor and the King of England&#8217;s Castle, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Gob\u00e1n Saor and the King of England&#8217;s Castle, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-490-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/goban-saor-and-the-king-of-englands-castle-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/goban-saor-and-the-king-of-englands-castle-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/goban-saor-and-the-king-of-englands-castle-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/goban-saor-and-the-king-of-englands-castle-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> Gob\u00e1n Saor and the King of England&#8217;s Castle, 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> 850117.<\/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> James Cowdery.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> between 1979 and 1981.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 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<h2>Shorten the road<\/h2>\n<p>The Gob\u00e1n Saor &#8211; the best stonemason who ever lived &#8211; was building castles all over Ireland. The king of England heard about him, and invited him to build a castle for him in England &#8211; but he said to himself that, once they had his castle built, they&#8217;d never build another<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>He sets off for England with his son. On the road, the Gob\u00e1n Saor asks his son, &#8216;Shorten the road for me.&#8217; The son has no idea what his father means, so they turn back home. When they reach the house, the wife knows better than to ask any questions, but simply helps them set off once again next morning. The same thing happens &#8211; the Gob\u00e1n Saor asks his son to &#8216;shorten the road,&#8217; and the son remains clueless. That night, at home, the mother asks her son why they keep turning back; and when her son explains the problem, she tells him that his father wants him to tell him a story.<br \/>\nSo the following day, they set out, and the Gob\u00e1n Saor asks the question, and the son tells a story, and eventually they reach the spot where the king of England wants his castle built. They work away at building it, and when they&#8217;re nearly done, they are approached by a serving girl from the castle, who speaks Irish. She tells them that the king intends to kill them when they&#8217;ve finished the castle.<\/p>\n<p>The Gob\u00e1n Saor then tells the king that he needs to send his son for a tool they&#8217;ve left behind in Ireland. &#8216;No,&#8217; says the king, &#8216;my son will go for it &#8211; you both stay here.&#8217; So the Gob\u00e1n Saor writes a note for the king&#8217;s son, telling his wife what tool they need -cor in aghaidh an caim, &#8216;crooked against the crooked.&#8217; When the son reaches the Gob\u00e1n Saor&#8217;s house, the wife sees the note, understands the situation, and tells the son that the tool is in a trunk. When the son goes to the trunk, she locks him into it.<\/p>\n<p>The king&#8217;s son is then surety for the Gob\u00e1n Saor and his own son, allowing them to return home safely.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>1. In some versions of this story the explanation is given that the king doesn&#8217;t want anyone else&#8217;s castle to be better than his own, and this is why he intends to kill the stonemason once the work is finished.<\/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-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scealaiocht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}