{"id":531,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/bailiff-and-the-amadan-the\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T17:15:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:15:26","slug":"bailiff-and-the-amadan-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/bailiff-and-the-amadan-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailiff and the Amad\u00e1n, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Bailiff and the Amad\u00e1n, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-531-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/bailiff-and-the-amadan-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/bailiff-and-the-amadan-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/bailiff-and-the-amadan-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/bailiff-and-the-amadan-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> Bailiff and the Amad\u00e1n, 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> 841418.<\/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.<\/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> 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> Bainbridge Island, 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> 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<h3>Part 1<\/h3>\n<p>A farmer has a slow-witted son whose job is to collect milk from the local dairy; but one day the son breaks the jug, and collects the milk in his hat &#8211; one of those fedoras with a crease along the crown. Because all the milk won&#8217;t fit inside the hat, the son turns the hat over and the dairy man pours the rest of the milk in the crease. When he gets home, his father asks where the rest of the milk is; the fool then turns the hat over again to show his dad. (Joe illustrates this story with a hat.)<\/p>\n<h3>Part 2<\/h3>\n<p>Next day, the bailiff is coming to throw them off the farm. The father, mother and daughter leave the amad\u00e1n by himself in the house to deal with the bailiff. When the bailiff arrives, he asks the amad\u00e1n where his father is, and the boy replies, &#8216;T\u00e1 m&#8217;athair ag d\u00e9anamh sonas gan donas&#8217; &#8211; which means &#8216;he is making the best of a bad job.&#8217; &#8216;C\u00e1 bhuil do mh\u00e1thair?&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;Where&#8217;s your mother?&#8217; &#8216;T\u00e1 mo mh\u00e1thair ag iasgach. An breac a mhara\u00edonn s\u00ed, caitheann s\u00ed uaithi \u00e9, agus an breac nach mara\u00edonn, tugann s\u00ed abhaile \u00e9.&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;My mother is fishing. The fish she catches, she throws away, and those she doesn&#8217;t, she brings home.&#8217; &#8216;C\u00e1 bhfuil do dheirfi\u00far?&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;Where&#8217;s your sister?&#8217; &#8216;T\u00e1 mo dheirfi\u00far ag caoineadh an gh\u00e1ire mh\u00f3r a rinne s\u00ed anuraidh.&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;She&#8217;s crying over the smile she had on her face nine months ago.&#8217; The bailiff promises the amad\u00e1n that his family can have the land rent-free for a year if the amad\u00e1n will explain the riddles to him; but when he hears the answers, he breaks his word, and says that the family will have to vacate the farm the next morning.<\/p>\n<h3>Part 3<\/h3>\n<p>That night the father and the daughter take to the roads to avoid the bailiff&#8217;s return, leaving the mother and son to face the official. Overnight they make up their minds to kill the bailiff; and the following morning the son murders the bailiff and is beginning to bury him in a hole next to the stump of a tree. The mother, fearing that her simple-minded son will tell people what they&#8217;ve done, makes a big pot of stirabout &#8211; a kind of corn-meal porridge; and as the son is digging the hole she stands on the tree-stump and flings spoonfulls of stirabout down into the hole on top of him. The bailiff is safely buried; but that night the mother moves the body and replaces it with a dead billy-goat. The next day a couple of peelers turn up making enquiries. As the mother feared, the amad\u00e1n blabs that they have killed the bailiff and buried him under the tree-stump; but when the police dig, all they find is the dead goat. They ask the amad\u00e1n, &#8216;When did you actually bury the bailiff?&#8217; and he replies, &#8216;The day it was raining stirabout&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>Aarne-Thompson tale-types AT 1600, &#8216;The Fool as Murderer&#8217; and AT 1381B, &#8216;Sausage Rain,&#8217; both relate to Part 3 of this story.<\/p>\n<p>This was one of the stories Joe told most frequently. Sometimes he only told Part 3.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely that he has combined three &#8216;foolish Jack&#8217;-type stories together to produce this performance.<\/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-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scealaiocht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","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=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}