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…
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…
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…