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00:00The end of the season is disponible in theeleron.
00:03Before the season is not on theTS,
00:08it is a great day,
00:10but now in three hours,
00:12we'll find the loss of flowers on the other side.
00:15My mother is blind to see the ĂĽbrig of years
00:18and the death of a year this year.
00:20.
00:25.
00:38.
00:39.
00:40The book is about 25 years old in the end.
00:47At the end, I was able to get my life together and my life together.
00:52I was able to get my life together in the old days and the old days.
00:59I was able to get my life together.
01:06I've come to Connemara to learn songs in my own language.
01:16Songs passed down through generations.
01:20When you're out here in this rugged landscape, you begin to understand its vastness
01:25and how survival over time has depended on community.
01:31I want to understand how this land, with all its wildness and isolation,
01:40help preserve not just music, but memory and identity.
01:46Cotlíní Chuallán is the first person to guide me,
01:50the beginning of a journey into the rich and resilient song traditions of this gorgeous place.
02:01Cotlíní Chuallán is the first person to guide me.
02:11It's just beautiful.
02:13I know not only do you sing and have learned a pass on, I know you're so passionate,
02:19but you've studied, you've delved, you've spent a lifetime not just learning the songs,
02:28but learning about them.
02:30I feel it's a gift and I feel that it's not really mine, that it's something to give forward.
02:39So that's why it's just so important to me that the kids learn it and are absorbed in it, which they are, which is great.
02:52Let's pass along.
02:53You know, if, if they were just sung in houses, they're, they'd probably die, you know.
03:01So it's important that there are competitions, that they're, that they get the, the, the stages,
03:08because, because that's really what's keeping them alive.
03:11Like, for example, Radio Na Gaeilthachta 1972 started broadcasting channel songs,
03:19started collecting interviews, going around to singers, musicians, and collected all the stuff.
03:28And thank God we have all that stuff in Radio Na Gaeilthachta today that we, it's a reference and it's also something that's very, very valuable.
03:41In 1926, it was announced in the Dáil that the government were contemplating a radio service for the Gaeilthacht areas.
03:48In 1943, at the request of a then Taoiseach, a committee was set up to examine the possibility of setting up a Gaeilthacht radio service.
03:55The committee reported that the difficulties at that time were almost unsurmountable.
04:00Two years ago, Sia Radio Na Gaeilthachta, a pirate radio station, went on the air for a week here in the Gaeilthachta.
04:06And today, at three o'clock, Radio Na Gaeilthachta went on the air from the new studios in Bereniae.
04:13Radio Na Gaeilthachta in Cheahaghi.
04:16Thank you very much.
04:18I won't leave sightseeing here in the new studios in La Gaeilthachta.
04:25Now I'm néghtana, and I'm ready to give you a woman's crew in that 뒤.
04:30It was a young man but the only one who was being on the way to the government, a female, to the board of the city.
04:33But I was really proud of that, not just since I was on the way to the team.
04:34And I was proud of that, and I was proud of that.
04:36I was proud of that, and I was proud of that, but I was proud of that.
04:39..and it's the first time it was aired on the service.
05:09You know, for kids here, being able to hear what was before.
05:15And it's just stories and you can kind of connect.
05:18Yeah, and straight away you're connected.
05:20Yeah.
05:21Like straight away you're listening to a conversation that happened in 1972 and you're there.
05:27Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:28For me on this quest, if you like, to be able to understand more, you know, who we are as an island, as a people.
05:37The archive is a huge part of playing that, you know?
05:40Oh, yeah. Huge. Huge.
05:43It just gives you a picture of what came before you and what you came from.
05:51This is actually my dad there.
05:53Oh, let me have a look. Ah, look.
05:55This is the only recording that he...
05:57Well, that's the only CD, yeah.
05:59Yeah, yeah.
06:00God, isn't that so lovely to have?
06:02Yeah, it's brilliant, yeah.
06:03He recorded that when he was 80.
06:05When he was 80?
06:06Yeah.
06:07Good man.
06:08On that note of, you know, what we can get from the archive, I was, I came across this.
06:16I'd heard it as a child, but came across it in the archive here.
06:21It was for Toastalagallibh that was a Corrach racing and festival that used to happen in Galway City in the 50s.
06:29So this is my dad now in, I think it was 1972.
06:31Toastalagallibh that was a
06:42And a part of the teaching is a melody...
06:46..taghigthought...
06:48..bet
06:53..first nhiSChando...
06:57.. hugely grande...
06:59...bet
07:04Can you translate?
07:07Brible something...
07:08Come ye young fellas. Little and big.
07:15Come you young women. And may ye be all jolly.
07:21Come for the sport. The dancing and the singing.
07:26The ring and the music.
07:29And my blessing forever on the festival.
07:34What a beautiful chorus.
07:37Perfect.
07:57Can we sing it up to her dad?
08:02Yeah.
08:03I love that I learned that from you and your dad.
08:27Thanks for that.
09:16Every time I go to, I'm getting a different story and more information.
09:22I want to hear from all generations, from young and old.
09:29and because this language, you know, it's an ancient language.
09:35But our language is for now as well and for future generations.
09:47I've been travelling around meeting the most amazing people.
09:52I know you do a huge amount in, obviously, within your own self
09:56and your talents and what you do.
09:58But in passing that along, is it because of how you learned?
10:03I think so.
10:04So the tradition in a way is very, that idea of preserving is very important,
10:11which can be sometimes problematic when you're trying to create.
10:14But I think that there's a space there now where, you know, there's a bit more movement with this.
10:20And it's not, you know, it's not as closed as people might think, you know.
10:25There, anyone can learn, anyone, you know, is allowed to learn.
10:29There's like, there's a kind of, the geolteacht idea can be problematic.
10:33It was essential to preserve the language, but it also separates, you know.
10:39So, and, and it's really, really important to constantly create linkages between people.
10:45And it really belongs to everybody.
10:47That's what I love about the younger generation coming up, is they have decided to have their own conversation in their own way.
10:55And it just opens up so many different spaces.
10:59It's not black and white.
11:00It's not this or that.
11:02There's so many different ways for this to happen and for this to, you know, for the language to continue.
11:10It's different in every language and every language, it doesn't matter where in the world it is, you know, has a place and has a perspective.
11:19And it's connected to humanity.
11:20And that's why these songs and this language and, you know, where I'm from, that's why that's so important to me.
11:26But everyone has their own way of getting to that.
11:29And it's the same for you.
11:31You're on your journey to get to where you need to go with all of that.
11:35It's just opening, it's just opening it all out.
11:38So that's gorgeous.
11:40Go hold it.
11:41That's beautiful.
11:41Go hold it.
11:51Go hold it.
11:52Go hold it.
12:00Go hold it.
12:01So I thought were being very solid.
12:04And I was so proud for you tonight.
12:07Tell me a couple of things that I'm familiar with.
12:10It's been a long time for a long time.
12:13It's been a long time for a long time.
12:40it's kind of just being recreated or tapped into in current day but I think
12:45it's been proven that it's very much still alive and very much current in the
12:5021st century and that people are now starting to innovate with it and never
12:55damaging the tradition or never trying to change it but introducing it into
13:00what society is like now today. My point of view is that if we're told that
13:06tradition belongs in the past you have to do it the way it was done then and
13:09you're not allowed to add to that tradition what's that to say for next
13:13generation that are to come or the generation after them is it going to be
13:17a living tradition? I do feel like there's that kind of an opinion about the Irish
13:22language or about Irish traditional music or Sianna singing that it's very much
13:26something that you need to be born into or you need to have it in some capacity in
13:30your bloodline or you need to go to Connemara or you need to go to GwydhĂłir in
13:35order to really feel it and to a certain degree I think that helps definitely if
13:39you want to learn about it and you want to feel it you need to go to where where
13:42it's most alive I don't think that's a great point yeah I don't think it should
13:46ever be exclusive I don't think it should ever belong to certain folk and not
13:52belong to anyone else because folk music at the end of the day it's it belongs to
13:56the people do you fancy picking a song or two or why not sure like I suppose when we're
14:02talking so much about how how it's rooted in our area so it's a famine song and that
14:06was written about the village of Carna which is only about 10 minutes west of us
14:11but basically it's addressing Johnny Shoiga Johnny Joyce who was ahead of the
14:15soup kitchens at the time and it's written as a kind of a a plamos a fake
14:20praise of this mighty Johnny Joyce who has the power to turn people away almost like a
14:27a way to to get at him through through song and through through verse
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18:56I kind of like the ones that the women were kind of, you know,
19:01I kind of feel the pain that they could, you know,
19:05it's just the broken hearted, the hurt, the, you know,
19:08and it still happens, you know, it's just the story of life.
19:12It's the story of people. Yeah. You know, but...
19:16That's beautiful. So there we go.
19:19It's pulling at you. It's pulling at the heart strings.
19:21Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's the same thing.
19:24Okay.
19:26Oh, yeah.
19:44Oh, yeah.
19:46Say it. Yeah.
19:47Oh, yeah.
19:52Oh, yeah.
19:54My man.
20:02My man.
20:02My man.
20:10My man.
20:11My man.
20:21My man.
20:22My man.
20:23I feel like it's not overlooking.
20:26Yeah.
20:27This is one of the most complicated things I've ever learned.
20:30Really?
20:31It's so beautiful. Yes.
20:32Yeah.
20:32It's so beautiful, but it's complicated.
20:35Yeah.
20:36In one word, there's one note.
20:37In another word, there's four or five notes, but it's not necessarily in the same place as the verse before.
20:43Yeah.
20:44Or it won't fit.
20:45Yeah.
20:46Yeah.
20:47You know, I mean, definitely.
20:48It's engaging me brain.
20:49It's challenging.
20:50It's challenging.
20:51It's good for the Alzheimer's.
20:52It's good for the Alzheimer's.
20:53It's good for the Alzheimer's.
20:54Yeah.
20:55Maybe.
20:56Just like a young man.
20:57Or just like a young man.
21:00I'd rather feel like a young man.
21:02Or just like a young man.
21:02Or just like a young man.
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23:12It was okay? No, it was great. As I said, it's Shannas.
23:18Next week, I travel north-west to our splendid Donegal,
23:23where new challenges and wonderful people await me.
23:27I remember and understand way more than I realise,
23:31and then I get to Donegal and, you know, I'm trying to listen out for the words
23:34and I can't hear them, and then I realise it's a totally different dialect.
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