Another story from Éamonn a’ Búrc this time. Sorry for the delay in getting this one transcribed and sent out. I hope it’s interesting and you can gather some useful stuff about Connemara Irish from it. It can be found on the Dúchais website here. Bhí ins a’ tsean-aimsir annseo Read more…
Once again, we turn to Éamonn a’ Búrc to give us this week’s dose of Connemara Irish. This story is from the Main Manuscript Collection and can be found on Dúchas here. All notes in the text itself are from Mac Coisdealbha; these include notes in parentheses and some things Read more…
It’s funny how, just a week after I said I was hoping to be more consistent it didn’t really happen. But, I did get another story transcribed. Once again, as can be guessed, it’s from Éamonn a’ Búrc, transcribed from the audio by Liam Mac Coisdealbha. This story really reminded Read more…
A shorter story today from Éamonn, which is what allowed me to do another one this week. I’m trying to be more consistent about transcribing pages, so hopefully I’ll be able to get these out more frequently. I’m also thinking of translating my notes to Irish, but I want to Read more…
This week’s story is also from Éamonn a’ Búrc. It can be found on Dúchais here. Fear a bhí fadó ánn agus gho’ sé ag iarra bean agus fuair sé í. Agus bhí sí bliain pósta go díreach nuair bhí mac óg aici agus cailleadh thréis a’ pháiste í. Bhí Read more…
This tale also comes from Éamonn a’ Búrc. It was recorded on the ediphone in January of 1933 by Liam Mac Coisdealbha. It can be found on Dúchas’s website here. I am also working on a new style of presenting these stories, as several readers have complained that the long Read more…
Once again, I have decided to transcribe a story from Éamonn a’ Búrc, as written down by Seán Mac Coisdeabhla. This one is called Domhnach na bhFear and can be found here. If you’ve read other stories on this blog, it’s likely you’ll recognize this one. Nuair a tháinic Naomh Read more…
This week I’ve decided to return to Éamonn a’ Búrc’s stories, as collected by Liam Mac Coisdealbha. This was because the selections from Annála Beaga ó Iorrus Aithneach were getting smaller, and there wasn’t as much to point out dialectally in them because of that. I’ll return to them eventually, Read more…
I’ve decided this week to continue with another story from Éamonn a’ Búrc, about whom more info can be found in the previous post. It’s also collected by Liam Mac Coisdealbha, who transcribes fairly dialectaly, buíochas le Dia. The link to the original story can be found here. Notes in Read more…
Unlike the previous two stories, which were taken from Seán Mac Giollarnáth’s wonderful Annála Beaga ó Iorrus Aithneach, this one comes from one of Liam Mac Coisdealbha’s notebooks in the Main Manuscript Collection of the Folklore Department at UCD. These are the transcribed manuscripts collected by the IFC in the Read more…