Today, I’m continuing with transcriptions of stories from Annála Beaga Ó Iorrus Aithneach, collected by the late Seán Mac Giollarnáth. This is because, as I have said before, the stories were recorded by Liam Mac Con Iomaire, ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam, for Raidió na Gaeltachta in the Read more…
Today, I’m continuing with transcriptions of stories from Annála Beaga Ó Iorrus Aithneach, collected by the late Seán Mac Giollarnáth. This is because, as I have said before, the stories were recorded by Liam Mac Con Iomaire, ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam, for Raidió na Gaeltachta in the Read more…
Today, I’m continuing with transcriptions of stories from Annála Beaga Ó Iorrus Aithneach, collected by the late Seán Mac Giollarnáth. This is because, as I have said before, the stories were recorded by Liam Mac Con Iomaire, ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam, for Raidió na Gaeltachta in the Read more…
Continuing on with the transcriptions of stories from Annála Beaga ó Iorrus Aithneach, collected by Seán Mac Giollarnáth. I am doing this because these stories have been recorded by the late Liam Mac Con Iomaire, ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam, for Raidió na Gaeltachta in the 1980s. While Read more…
Today we will have transcriptions from two stories: Ciste a fuair Liam de Barra and An ciste a bhí i Luimneach. Because these two stories are so short, I’m going to combine them into one post. These are the last two stories that are on this track recorded by Liam Read more…
Follow the trend of my last two posts, I’m going to present a transcription from Annála Beaga ó Iorrus Aithneach again today. This story, An sean-fhear a raibh an Piliúr aige seems to have been collected from Micheál Mhac Dhonnchada (about whom, see the introduction of the previous post that Read more…
The transcription here comes from Sean Mac Giollarnáth’s Annála Beaga ó Iorrus Aithneach. In the 1980s, Liam Mac Con Iomaire, ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam, recorded himself reading stories from Annála Beaga. This story was one of those he recorded. It can be found in the recording from Read more…
The transcription here is of Ór an tSagart sa Loch. This story is found in Mac Giollarnáth’s wonderful Annála Beaga ó Iorrus Aithneach book. The story was collected by Mac Giollarnáth from Micheál Mhac Dhonnchada, who was from Ruisín na Maithnidheach, in Carna. More about ‘Sgéalaidhe Mór Ruisín na Maithnidheach’ Read more…
This week’s post contains two stories from Annála Beaga ó Iorrus Aithneach. As usual, I will transcribe them with the original spelling, and note any pertinent dialectal features. An chré atá ar Oileán Cháillín i n-aice le Ceann Léime dá gcaithtí cuid di ar chruach arbhair ní bhcfadh na luchain Read more…
Once again, today’s selection comes from Annála Beaga ó Iorrus Aithneach by Seán Mac Giollarnáth. I’ll be transcribing the next little tale and giving notes about any dialectal features that appear. All spelling is in the original, as it was in the original text itself; nothing has been moved into Read more…