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00:29That's why I'm so proud of it.
00:59I'm excited to learn about the song collectors from this region and be taught some of the
01:06songs from the area too.
01:10Well, Cael is on the ground for the first time of the year in the new year.
01:14I'm here to try and be a part of the song collectors from this region and be taught some of the songs from the area too.
01:22I'm here to go to Cael.
01:23I'm here to go to Hinderberg and Norr.
01:28I'm here to go to the world and walk.
01:30I'm here to go to Cael.
01:32I'm here to be a part of the song.
01:37I'm here to go to the song without me until the song is on the line.
01:42I'm here to sing the song from the singer.
01:46I'm just kidding.
01:50Hello!
01:53How you doing?
01:55Ah, hello you, are you?
01:59Will we go in? Come on.
02:01There was a folklore collector came here in 1940.
02:04Liam de Noura, he got the job from the folklore commission to collect,
02:09but he didn't know where to start.
02:11He didn't even know about Ring at the time,
02:13even though he was a fluent Irish speaker himself.
02:15And he collected songs in Belly Saggart.
02:19And they were much the same songs as are sung in Ring today.
02:23So, that's what really piqued my interest in the whole thing.
02:27So, like, those songs were all over rural Ireland.
02:31But then, as the Irish language retreated into the Gwaeltacht areas,
02:36the songs disappeared because everyone was speaking English,
02:40and the story of the song wouldn't have been that important to people,
02:43which was important to the people themselves that had the songs in their heads.
02:47Yeah.
02:48He just weaved his way around the county, and he'd enquire,
02:51and then he got information.
02:53Such a fella knows a few songs or whatever.
02:55Wrote the songs down as they were being sung,
02:59and he wrote the music down as well.
03:02So, he was a genius.
03:04And I could go through all the...
03:07That's the way he did it.
03:09Gives a look at this.
03:11This was a famous song that was made famous by Nicholas Tobin,
03:17who's one of the most famous Shenno singers.
03:20But this song was collected in Belly Saggart,
03:23and it was sung by Bobby Lyons.
03:26He had this song, but he had interesting things in the song
03:29that Nicholas Tobin doesn't have in his song.
03:32So, the Belly Saggart people were all over rural Ireland.
03:36Names in it.
03:37The name of...
03:38The Connerys were a family that were evicted down in West Watford,
03:44half an hour from here.
03:46But a Doon was the name of the place.
03:49The family were evicted, but they stood up for it,
03:52and they tried to kill the agent that was evicting him.
03:55And they were transported to...
03:58Well, the song says New South Wales.
04:00Not sure of where they actually ended up.
04:03The songs are really personal.
04:05Yeah.
04:06Not just to the families, but to each area.
04:10Yeah, each area.
04:11It's what you know, like Annie's story.
04:13Yeah, yeah.
04:14You're a nurturer.
04:16Thank you very much.
04:17Yeah, yeah.
04:18It's easy to say.
04:19Yeah.
04:20We've got a new song.
04:21Yeah.
04:22Well, this song was...
04:23Yeah.
04:24We've got a new song at hotel.
04:25Yeah, you heard that song.
04:26Yeah.
04:27Na, I'm not sure.
04:28Yeah.
04:29Oh.
04:30Yeah, you heard that song's part.
04:31Yeah, I'm not sure.
04:32Yeah, I'm not sure.
04:33You're a new song.
04:34Yeah, thank you.
04:35So, we came with it.
04:36When you were, we came together.
04:37No.
04:38In a new song.
04:39No.
04:40Yes, you heard.
04:41Then.
04:42Then in a new song,
04:44No.
04:45Oh, no.
04:46Nice.
04:47No.
04:48Yeah.
04:49Yeah.
04:50I am the professor, my lady, and I have been in school.
04:57I am a teacher, my sister, and my mother, and my son.
05:04But my son, my son, my son, my son, my son!
05:09My son, my son, my son, my son, my son.
05:14I am the teacher.
05:17My name is the full story of Stairfeel at home on the stage...
05:25..and I have a lot of new stories about Stairfeel...
05:30..in different ways of working on Stairfeel...
05:35...and also I have to have like a lot of new stories...
05:40..that I see for a lot of years...
05:42..so there's still an average of years in Stairfeel.
05:47Ciarol, I needed to pick your brains about.
05:56There was a couple of, there was Hindeberg I'd like to know more about, because I know
06:01he was really important to this area.
06:04Yeah, he was, I'd say, amongst the first to actually go amongst the people and start
06:08making recordings, ethnographic recordings.
06:11Thankfully, those recordings survived and were able to listen in today, which is an
06:15amazing thing to be able to listen in today on singers from that time, 1903, 1905.
06:21It's just really unusual.
06:22Which is fantastic.
06:23And he wrote this, this book, well, it was actually not published until after his death,
06:27but he was in the process of writing this, this work here, a handbook of Irish music.
06:33Yeah, there's a picture of him here.
06:34We should have a look and we might say a few things.
06:38This is him here, Richard Hindeberg, Dr.
06:41Richard Hindeberg, and this is somebody who came from outside, if you like,
06:44from outside and above, you know, he was a clergyman and very respected, and he actually
06:49showed the people that they had something really special in a sense, you know, he was
06:53one of those that did that, you know.
06:55And tell me about Maura Niigroma.
06:57Maura Niigroma, there's no great record of the people that's extant from those times,
07:03you know, so we're, we're, I would say, trying to piece together little, little pictures of people
07:10sometimes. And that's the case with Maura Niigroma.
07:12We know that she, that she was born maybe in the late 18th century, that she lived through the
07:18famine times.
07:19I think that our oral traditions are kind of often overlooked as to their value in terms
07:26of what they can tell us about events, you know, and when you have something like our
07:30Haura Niigroma, which is Maura Niigroma's account of, of how she felt during the famine.
07:37When you have something like that, that's, you can't put a price on that.
07:40That's coming from the people.
07:42It's an account of, of, of what they felt and how they felt at the time, you know.
07:47So Haura Niigroma, then, the famine song, as it's sometimes referred to as,
07:54well, that was collected by a man called Niklas Thobin in this area.
07:59And we mentioned Niklas earlier on.
08:01He was one of the first to attend Dulce Galdamon.
08:03She had na praathe doi, you know, ar gursun, the scopering.
08:07It's very, a very, very sad item, you know.
08:09It talks about how the neighbours have all been scattered on account of the,
08:14the, the failed crop of potatoes.
08:16And she says something quite controversial in here.
08:21It was considered an out on crusta because the clergy weren't too,
08:24enamoured with some of the content of the song.
08:26She said, in one part of it,
08:30God didn't ordain that this should happen to the Irish people, you know.
08:34And I suppose the thinking would be that everything is the will of God.
08:39And so to say,
08:40is challenging, you know, really, really, she was saying it was,
08:46it was something that was put upon us.
08:49This makes all the difference to our understanding.
08:54It does. It's, it's, it's, as I said, they, they count from below.
08:58People.
08:58Yeah.
08:59Yeah.
09:00People, mothers.
09:01Yeah.
09:01Trying to feed their children.
09:03Yeah, it's right, it's right here.
09:04It's right here, it's right here.
09:05Children crying and screeching every morning.
09:15The pangs of hunger, you know, and nothing, nothing to, to eat.
09:19This is good number.
09:24Gjøden prate i to øynene har gorsundeskapet og eng,
09:31det høyre se bor haus i etse navn her farige.
09:38Er belegert slei hane ketekå treusker hø,
09:46så vi slødne vla høsne gønne ulde bærd.
09:54Er gjødne gløyde foydes fra køyrsing,
10:02skvælde løsne gus ræk ar gård.
10:08Sånn vær hød i shto da kriga gus a ring,
10:16sånn pørhål, sånn gård lægge eirel,
10:20a løsne løsne løs.
10:33Det er søfnne høyrein at i ærn Sian an løs,
10:36fra høyrein gøhålein, gøhånduil,
10:39i møfhånduil i næredin.
10:41The first time I was to talk to people in the country and in the country.
10:49But I think that it was a great opportunity to talk to people in the country.
10:58You can also talk to people in the country and talk to people in the country.
11:05I would like to thank you for being here...
11:08..in a few years later...
11:11..in a few years later.
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14:03So anyway, these people kept it alive.
14:06And you. And you.
14:08We'll try a song together is what we might do.
14:10Oh, yes.
14:11I'm just looking up there now at that beautiful mural that you've spoken about her.
14:15And the great Niklas Thodeen, who was really our great hero here.
14:20I'm going to sing, or I'm going to start maybe a few verses of a song that I will associate with him.
14:26I'm paushteen fian.
14:27Oh, I'm paushteen fian, the children, what?
14:30I suppose the fair-haired child, maybe.
14:32The fair-haired child.
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14:59So he
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15:52You are my delight and my comfort of night I love you ten times before morning
16:08Come on, come on, come on. That's a great song. Very good song.
16:13Another one. Come on, come on.
16:17That was gorgeous.
16:24Now we're lifting.
16:26We won't get that again.
16:34I'm digging deeper now after hearing beautiful songs from wonderful people preserving our amazing history and the journey they've had and still have to keep it alive.
16:46I want to contribute to that in some small way. I'm a singer from this island. I want to add to that. I'm not going to do it anyway to the extent that they have done or will do. I mean, this is their forte.
17:01But I want to know what it feels like to sing in Irish, to sing in my own language. I just want to try. That's all. I just want to try.
17:14Yeah, that's all we can do. I want to learn more.
17:20So here we are, Anne. It's time for me to roll up my sleeves and get into it now.
17:27It's time for business. I picked this song, Eileen Arun. It's a love song and it's the ring version. You would definitely make a nice job of this.
17:36You think I'll be able first?
17:37Oh, you will. But the story goes, it's a love song and it's about a young man who falls in love with Eileen.
17:45And in the second verse, he says to her, will you come with me or will you stay? And she says, I'll go with you and I won't stay. And for as long as I live, I will love you.
18:00And what's ruin mean? It means it's a term of endearment, as they call it. I mean, my love or my precious person, you know.
18:10Do you want me to sing the first verse for you? Yes, please. And I'll explain. Please.
18:15And if you want to mark where the little twilly notes come in. I will. I'll go all through it. Yeah. Right.
18:21You'll hang fin gaun alat, Eileen Arun. OK, grand. Now, do you want to try that first on your own?
18:38No. Ah, come on now. You'll be well able for it. Oh, no. Give it a tiny go on me. Do it, do it. Let's see.
18:46Let's see. One, two, three.
18:48You'll hang fin gaun alat, Eileen Arun. You'll hang fin gaun alat, Eileen.
19:11Yeah.
19:17Oh, you're a great teacher. I love that. Great. You have a great feel for it. Would you have that for all your songs?
19:24Oh, it's gorgeous. Yeah. Thanks. Oh, look at the lovely.
19:28Isn't it gorgeous? Just lovely.
19:30What a lovely day.
19:32Oh, no.
19:34You'll hang fin gaun alat, Eileen Arun. You'll hang fin gaun alat, Eileen Arun.
19:56You'll hang fin gaun alat, Eileen Arun. You'll hang fin gaun alat, Eileen Arun.
20:11You'll hang fin gaun alat, Eileen Arun. You'll hang fin gaun alat, Eileen Arun. You'll hang fin gaun alat.
20:17You'll hang fin gaun alat, Eileen Arun. You'll hang fin gaun alat, Eileen Arun. You'll hang fin gaun alat.
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21:25I
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22:33is that okay?
22:35beautiful
22:37perfect
22:39we did it
22:41we did it
22:43all of that
22:45the journey
22:47I'm loving how much
22:49the
22:51the language
22:53just been surrounded by the language
22:55is really awakening
22:57the Irish that's already in me
22:59remembering more
23:01I've been surrounded by everybody speaking
23:03constantly which is lovely
23:05to sing your songs and sing the stories
23:08you know of people the people who wrote the songs
23:11so this is really important for me for that reason as well
23:14you know to learn
23:16more of the stories and to be able to sing them from when
23:20when I'm away from home
23:22to represent us well you know
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23:34next week
23:35I'll continue my journey to Cork and Kerry
23:37where I learn about the song collectors and composers of the time
23:41I also have a breakthrough on how to learn the language through song
23:45to connect with the songs I want to sing
23:47maybe it's not learning the language to learn the songs maybe it's learning the songs to learn the language
23:54I was just going to say that we all have to reframe our relationship with the language and with the music
24:01the music
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