{"id":6672,"date":"2024-08-19T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:32:29","slug":"taisce-bheo-galway-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2024\/08\/19\/taisce-bheo-galway-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Taisce Bheo: Galway Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GalwayWe’re pleased to play online host for six new Irish voices on the Taisce Bheo na nGael\/St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2 nan G\u00e0idheal<\/a> project run by the UHI Language Sciences Institute, with support from CIALL<\/a>. These recordings were all co-ordinated by Brian \u00d3 Curn\u00e1in of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.<\/p>\n

March 2025 Update! The second half of the conversation between Jim\u00ed and P\u00e1druig has now been added to the collection. See below.<\/h2>\n

In\u00a0Jim\u00ed and P\u00e1draig (1)<\/a><\/strong> they discuss and recount anecdotes about their ancestors and their life in the upland small arable areas of Cois Fharraige, west Co. Galway. The first to come to the area was Micil Chearra, and his wife Peig\u00ed N\u00ed Dhonnch\u00fa from Baile na mBrobhach. They went to live in Clochar (na) L\u00e1ra on a holding owned by a landlord by the name of Common. They were expelled from their holding, due to a falling out with the Blakes over hare hunting and the little black hound of Micil U\u00ed Chearra. The story of the fairy hare remained in family lore. Jim\u00ed remembers S\u00e9amas Mhicil, his grandfather. He had a story about a man from Glenicmurrin who got lost in mist on the hills but came to the Cearra home in Clochar Locha, and was grateful to have made it there safely. Both relate incidents involving the poit\u00edn distilling. Jim\u00ed explains the supernatural origin of the saying ‘I’ll make you change your smile, like M\u00e1irt\u00edn Mhaiti\u00fa did to the ghost.’ Jim\u00ed heard his grandmother talking about milking the milk cow and saying prayers that Jim\u00ed acquired from her. And he says three of them, including finally the renowned An Mharainn Ph\u00e1draig.<\/p>\n

The Word-linked transcript is available here: https:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/12092<\/a><\/p>\n

In Jim\u00ed and P\u00e1druig (2)<\/strong><\/a> they continue their conversation, in this second video, about charms, as well as funny anecdotes and religious stories: the Straying Charm and poit\u00edn; the Harmful Charm which killed a horse under its rider, and killed a head of cattle; the Love Charm misdirected at a pig. A young horse-cart carrier heading to Galway and Beairtle Ph\u00e1draig’s humourous house title and how the peelers were known as ‘pig drivers’. The ‘diplomacy’ of Colm Bheairtle Sh\u00e9amais getting rid of his visitors of a frosty night. Peadar’s vision of demonic dogs at the priest’s sick call. A murder in England and the ghostly revenge car in B\u00e9al an Daingin. The priest calls a church-goer ‘You brute!’. Three men are saved from a sinking curach in a storm by a miracle of three communion wafers. Respect for attending mass. Under the briar for gambling and in confession. Seasonal work in East Galway – An Eachr\u00e9idh.<\/p>\n

The Word-linked transcript is available here: https:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/12312<\/a><\/p>\n

In Muireann N\u00ed Churn\u00e1in agus Brian \u00d3 Curn\u00e1in (1)<\/a><\/strong> Muireann tells us about her current school life in fifth year at Col\u00e1iste an Eachr\u00e9idh, Athenry, Co. Galway: the school subjects and her academic interests: history and art. She has great praise for the school staff. She talks to her brother Brian about their life in Ros Muc, in the west of Co.Galway, and the move to the Galltacht (English speaking area) in the east of the county, and how she quickly learned English. She also changed her Irish so that she would be better understood in Gaelscoil Riada. It was after the move that she was able to learn ballet in a ballet school in Galway city. She really likes ballet and would like to practice professionally as a teacher. She tells about her travels, especially about her visit to the USA.<\/p>\n

The Word-linked transcript is available here: https:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/12090<\/a><\/p>\n

In Muireann N\u00ed Churn\u00e1in agus Brian \u00d3 Curn\u00e1in (2)<\/a><\/strong> Muireann tells about the family ski holidays: the hard and easy pistes, the beauty of the mountains and the surroundings, ski accidents and dangers of skiing, as well as safety in groups, and the craziness of the apr\u00e8s-ski and even an interesting comparison to ballet. Muireann and Brian went to visit their brother, Dara, when he was working and skiing in Val d’Is\u00e8re in France fo a season, but Muireann thinks that such a long stay would be too much for her. Brian then turns the conversation to school life and study. Muireann thinks that students now have many advantages because of the information revolution. She then discusses various problems that teenagers are thought to have in their lives. She is very interested in live music, in the likes of Tyle the Creator and Brockhampton. Brian and Muireann follow the rappers Kneecap, although Muireann is not impressed by the drug culture she thinks they are associated with. Both of them discuss the Irish Revival in the context of music fashion and the media.<\/p>\n

The Word-linked transcript is available here: https:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/12091<\/a><\/p>\n

With Dara \u00d3 Curn\u00e1in, Se\u00e1n Concanonn<\/a><\/strong> describes his childhood, his working life, his relations and life in Montiagh (South), Claregalway, Co. Galway. He discusses sports: hurling and football. He describes dairy farming, raising piglets, farm horses, thatching, and of course sowing and spraying spuds! Chicken eggs and young roosters were brought to Galway and sold to shopkeepers. Pigs were killed and eaten at home. Se\u00e1n also describes the high rates of emigration during his youth in the 1950s and its toll on hurling teams. He spent a short spell working in England with his brother and a while in hospital in Galway with a diagnosis of tuberculosis.<\/p>\n

The Word-linked transcript is available here: https:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/12089<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re pleased to play online host for six new Irish voices on the Taisce Bheo na nGael\/St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2 nan G\u00e0idheal project run by the UHI Language Sciences Institute, with support from CIALL. These recordings were all co-ordinated by Brian \u00d3 Curn\u00e1in of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. March 2025 Update! The second half of … Continue reading Taisce Bheo: Galway Voices<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,8],"tags":[39,41,45,51],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call","category-community","category-research","category-video","tag-gaeilge","tag-galway","tag-heritage","tag-irish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}