{"id":614,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/my-home-in-fair-glenlea\/"},"modified":"2021-03-30T12:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T11:48:37","slug":"my-home-in-fair-glenlea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/my-home-in-fair-glenlea\/","title":{"rendered":"My Home in Fair Glenlea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: My Home in Fair Glenlea<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-614-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/my-home-in-fair-glenlea.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/my-home-in-fair-glenlea.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/my-home-in-fair-glenlea.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/my-home-in-fair-glenlea.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> My Home in Fair Glenlea.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 853918.<\/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> 9509.<\/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> Unavailable.<\/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 is about the man who saw the world in one night, you know, and when he woke up [he was in his own] bed in Ireland. This is what he thought he saw on his way.<\/p>\n<p>Come all you rambling heroes of every rank and station<br \/>\nHear my recitation while those lines I now unfold<br \/>\nI might have been a Roosian, an Austrian or a Bulgarian<br \/>\nBut of my vast experience the truth I&#8217;ll now unfold.<br \/>\nI went to see the world&#8217;s rage when I was twenty years of age<br \/>\nA steerage passage I engaged on a ship called The Iron Duke<br \/>\nWe sailed away from Dublin Wall southward bound for Transvaal<br \/>\nWe had one man from Annascaul and one from Donnybrook.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a Dutchman who admired my ways took me to see the Himalayas<br \/>\nAnd oh, my lads, was I amazed their awful height to see!<br \/>\nThose Himalayan peaks are much higher than Magillicuddy&#8217;s Reeks<br \/>\nFrom their summit you plainly see the waves at Galilee.<br \/>\nNow this Dutchman was in health declined; he looked for cures in Palestine<br \/>\nHe wanted me with him combined along with him to go<br \/>\nSo we journeyed on through Malta, on through Methuselah<br \/>\nThe ancient city of Hebrew and the Walls of Jericho.<\/p>\n<p>When we landed in Jerusalem the trees were blooming beautiful<br \/>\nBut on the very next morning there was a great earthquake<br \/>\nI was in bed and sleeping sound; I woke to find things spinning round<br \/>\nAnd after that I heard no sound; no pain affected me<br \/>\nBut on the following morning, when I recovered consciousness<br \/>\nI woke at home in my own bed, in my own home in Glenlea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>This fragment comes from a wonderful song by the poet Patsy Cronin of Toureen, Kilgarvan, County Kerry. The full text can be found in Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 Canainn (ed.), <cite class=\"leabhar\">Down Erin&#8217;s Lovely Lee: Songs of Cork<\/cite> (Dublin 1978), 62-4; also in Fintan Vallely (ed.) <cite class=\"leabhar\">Sing Up!<\/cite> (Dublin 2008), 179-82.<\/p>\n<p>The song features in the repertoire of the M\u00fasgra\u00ed U\u00ed Fhlo\u00ednn Gaelthacht and has been recorded in full by singers from that region. One of these was M\u00edche\u00e1l \u00d3 Muimhneach\u00e1in, a brother of C\u00e1it N\u00ed Mhuimhneach\u00e1in whom Joe Heaney described as \u201cone of the best sean-n\u00f3s singers I ever heard\u201d. M\u00edche\u00e1l\u2019s recording can be found on <cite class=\"albam-ceoil\">An Joga M\u00f3r \u2014 Sean-N\u00f3s Singing from Cork<\/cite> (RTE 242CD), which mostly contains archive recordings of C\u00e1it but which includes this song and two others sung by Aindrias, another brother. All the recordings were made between 1940 and 1948 by the BBC, Coimisi\u00fan B\u00e9aloideasa \u00c9ireann and Raidi\u00f3 \u00c9ireann. It&#8217;s not known where Joe learned My Home in Fair Glenlea, though he may have heard it from Dublin singer Frank Harte, whose shortened version, called <cite class=\"amhr\u00e1n\">The Traveller All Over the World<\/cite>, can be heard on the Topic CD <cite class=\"albam-ceoil\">Irish Voices<\/cite> (TSCD 702).<\/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-614","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\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}