{"id":653,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/tuirne-mhaire\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T15:49:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:49:36","slug":"tuirne-mhaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/tuirne-mhaire\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fairne Mh\u00e1ire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: T\u00fairne Mh\u00e1ire<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-653-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/tuirne-mhaire.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/tuirne-mhaire.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/tuirne-mhaire.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/tuirne-mhaire.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> T\u00fairne Mh\u00e1ire.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 781513.<\/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> Irish.<\/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> Cynthia Thiessen.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 02\/03\/1978.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> 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> 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> Fredric Lieberman.<\/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>&hellip;There was a song about the spinning-wheel itself&hellip; Now there&#8217;s a rumour and a myth that the fairies used to come back to the houses, the &#8216;good people,&#8217; and spin on that wheel until the cock crew in the morning. That&#8217;s why the spinning wheel was always left in working order, with some wool near it, in every house, when they went to bed.<br \/>\nAnd &#8216;T\u00fairne Mh\u00e1ire&#8217; &#8211; they reckoned that the spinning wheel was the most- the gentlest thing in the world, that that wheel turned any time you put your hand on it. And the old women used to have a song something like this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;S\u00e9 t\u00fairne Mh\u00e1ire an t\u00fairne s\u00e1sta, do shi\u00fail s\u00e9 p\u00e1irt mhaith d&#8217;\u00c9irinn<br \/>\nN\u00edl gleann beag ann d\u00e1 ndeachaidh s\u00e9 ann n\u00e1r fh\u00e1g s\u00e9 [cuid d\u00e1 thr\u00e9ithe]<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup><br \/>\nChaith s\u00e9 r\u00e1ithe in I\u00far Cinn Tr\u00e1 ar l\u00fab sa ngleannt\u00e1in sl\u00e9ibhte<br \/>\n&#8216;S na s\u00ed\u00f3ga\u00ed mn\u00e1 a bh\u00ed ar thaobh Chnoic Meadha shn\u00edomhaid\u00eds lawn is [cambric] air.<\/p>\n<p>N\u00ed h\u00ed mo bhean-sa bean an t\u00fairne ach Eibhl\u00edn mh\u00fainte bh\u00e9asach<br \/>\nA cos d\u00e1 sti\u00faradh ar mhaide t\u00farna &#8216;s a l\u00e1mh a&#8217; d\u00e9anamh r\u00e9iteacht&#8217;<br \/>\nBa thuath an st\u00fampa, slinne\u00e1n stromptha, coigeal cam, gan [faoidhim] leis<br \/>\nLeagadar f\u00fam an gliogaire t\u00fairne gan fuaim, gan ti\u00fain, gan gl\u00e9as leis.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"t:aistriuchan\">Translation<\/h2>\n<p>Mary&#8217;s spinning-wheel is the satisfactory spinning-wheel, it&#8217;s travelled all over Ireland<br \/>\nThere isn&#8217;t a valley, however small, that it hasn&#8217;t left it&#8217;s mark on.<br \/>\nIt spent a season in Newry, in a crook of a mountain gle<br \/>\nAnd the fairy-women on the slope of Cnoc Meadha used to spin lawn and [cambric] with it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not my wife who&#8217;s the spinning woman, but polite and mannerly Eileen<br \/>\nHer foot directing it with the foot-board, while her hand maintains the arrangement<br \/>\nThe post was out-of-true, an upright was stiff, a distaff crooked and useless(?)<br \/>\nThey threw down before me the rickety wheel without sound or tune or working order to it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. Words in square brackets have been taken from the text in Mrs Costelloe&#8217;s collection, as Joe&#8217;s words are hard to make out.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Costelloe includes the following note in connection with this song: &#8216;The heroine of the song is M\u00e1ire Jordan, an old lady, feeble and half blind, upon whom some practical joker plays a trick, by putting her wheel out of order. She, unaware of this, attributes its defection to the malice of the fairy host, and she is here supposed to be travelling from place to place seeking a cure for it.&#8217; She also remarks that the song &#8216;has evidently become much corrupted, and it is difficult to make much sense of it now.&#8217; See Eibhlin Bean Mhic Choisdealbha, Amhr\u00e1in Mhuighe Se\u00f3la: Traditional Folksongs from Galway and Mayo (Dublin, 1923), 83.<\/p>\n<p>This song was recorded while Joe was Artist in Residence at University of Washington.<\/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":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amhrain","category-amhrain-i-ngaeilge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}