Bhí buachaill am amháin - Eilis Ní Chleircín
Thu, 10/11/2012 - 14:05 | by Eoghan
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Transcript
Bhí buachaill am amháin agus fuaigh sé (a) suirí le cailín agus shíl sé gur cailín ar dóigh a bhí inti. Agus nuair a tháinig sé ar ais, arsa seisean:
"Tá aye aici agus tá no aici,
Agus ar ndóigh go bhfuil for what? aici,
Agus (cur) suas leis an uaisle,
Tá stiall den chotún bhreac uirthi."
Translation
There was once a boy and he went courting a girl and he thought she was a great girl. And when he returned, he said:
"She has aye and she has no,
And of course she has for what?,
And keeping(?) up with the nobility,
She has a sash of dotted cotton on."
Commentary
The short verse which is introduced and recited here appears to be taken from a song entitled 'Máire Mhór'. More recent versions have slightly different lyrics, but retain the same structure. For example, a version by Colm Ó Méalóid from Conamara has the following lyrics:
Bhí yes aici 's bhí no aici,
Is ar ndóigh bhí what not aici.
Is murach lucht a' Bhéarla,
Nach gcuirfinn Dandy cap uirthi.
(Colm Ó Méalóid, Céad slán le Camus, Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 1985).
This item is transcribed also in Heinrich Wagner and Colm Ó Baoill, Linguistic atlas and survey of Irish dialects (4 vols, Dublin, 1958-69), vol. 4, 286.
Title in English: There once was a boy
Digital version published by: Doegen Records Web Project, Royal Irish Academy
Description of the Recording:
Speaker:
Eilis
Ní Chleircín from Co.
Derry
Person who made the recording:
Karl Tempel
Organizer and administrator of the recording scheme: The Royal Irish Academy
In collaboration with: Lautabteilung, Preußische Staatsbibliothek (now Lautarchiv,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Recorded on 24-09-1931 at 13:30:00 in Queen's
University, Belfast. Recorded on 24-09-1931 at 13:30:00 in Queen's
University, Belfast.
Archive recording (ID LA_1213d3, from a shellac disk stored at the
Royal Irish Academy) is 00:28 minutes
long. Archive recording (ID LA_1213d3, from a shellac disk stored at the
Royal Irish Academy) is 00:28 minutes
long.
Second archive recording (ID LA_1213b3, from a shellac disc stored in
Belfast) is 00:28 minutes long. Second archive recording (ID LA_1213b3, from a shellac disc stored in
Belfast) is 00:28 minutes long.
User recording (ID LA_1213d3, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal
Irish Academy) is 00:27 minutes long. User recording (ID LA_1213d3, from a shellac disk stored at the Royal
Irish Academy) is 00:27 minutes long.
