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00:00The ship is in the city of Boehorch-Chyrge.
00:05We are not alone in the city of Boehorch-Chyrge.
00:08We are now at the front door.
00:10We are now at the front door.
00:13We have a new house at the back door.
00:15We are now at the back door.
00:18We will be able to make the boat here.
00:30enzao
00:37Criscidum
00:41Hello everyone!
00:44I wanted to start playing and I was like
00:48for a while and a few hours and
00:55together for them to begin with
00:58I've also been in the tradition of Halevú and I've been able to learn more and more.
01:28has depended on community.
01:37I want to understand how this land, with all its wildness and isolation,
01:41help preserve not just music, but memory and identity.
01:47CotlÃnà Cúilán is the first person to guide me,
01:51the beginning of a journey into the rich and resilient song traditions
01:55of this gorgeous place.
01:58When I was born,
02:02I was born in a new world,
02:04I was born in a new world.
02:13Just beautiful.
02:14I know not only do you sing and have learned a pass on,
02:17I know you're so passionate,
02:19but you've really studied, you've delved,
02:23you've spent a lifetime,
02:25you know, not just learning the songs, but learning about them.
02:31I feel it's a gift and I feel that it's not really mine,
02:37that it's something to give forward.
02:39So that's why kind of it's so,
02:43it just so important to me that the kids, you know, learn it and are absorbed in it,
02:51which they are, which is great.
02:53You know, if they were just sung in houses,
02:57they're, they'd probably die.
02:59You know, so it's important that there are competitions, that they're,
03:05that they get the stages because that's really what's keeping them alive.
03:11Like, for example,
03:13Radio Na Gaeilthaghtha 1972 started broadcasting channel songs,
03:19started collecting interviews,
03:21going around to singers, musicians,
03:25and collected all this stuff.
03:28And thank God we have all that stuff in Radio Na Gaeilthaghtha today,
03:33that we, it's a reference and it's also something that's very, very valuable.
03:41In 1926, it was announced in the Dáil
03:44that the government were contemplating a radio service for the Gaeilthaghtha areas.
03:48In 1943, at the request of a then Taoiseach,
03:51a committee was set up to examine the possibility of setting up a Gaeilthaghtha radio service.
03:56The committee reported that the difficulties at that time were almost unsurmountable.
04:00Two years ago, Sia Radio Na Gaeilthaghtha, a pirate radio station,
04:04went on the air for a week here in the Gaeilthaghtha.
04:07And today, at three o'clock,
04:10Radio Na Gaeilthaghtha went on the air for the new studios in Bereniae.
04:14Radio Na Gaeilthaghtha in Shaghi.
04:16Thank you very much.
04:18It's been a long time for us,
04:20and we'll be here in the Gaeilthaghtha.
04:24I'm going to be here in the Gaeilthaghtha.
04:29We'll be here in the air for the new studios in Bereniae.
04:32We'll be here in the Gaeilthaghtha.
04:36We'll be here in the Gaeilthaghtha in Bereniae.
04:39And we'll be here in the air for the new studios.
04:42This is the first time this song was aired on Radio and the Gaelthaghtha, and one of the first Connemara songs that were aired on the service.
05:09You know, for kids here, being able to hear what was before, and it's just stories and you can kind of connect.
05:18Yeah, and straight away you're connected. Like straight away you're listening to a conversation that happened in 1972 and you're there.
05:27For 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. It 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... Well, that's the only CD, yeah.
05:59Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. God, isn't that so lovely to have?
06:02Yeah, it's brilliant, yeah. He recorded that when he was 80.
06:05When he was 80? Yeah.
06:07Good man.
06:08On that note of, you know, what we can get from the archive, I was... I came across this. I'd heard it as a child, but came across it in the archive here.
06:20It was for Toastallagallibh. That was a Corrach racing and festival that used to happen in Galway City in the 50s.
06:28So this is my dad now in, I think it was 1972.
06:32He was so pretty, so, so human beings...
06:35Oh, and that's a lot of gem.
07:03I know.
07:03So, can you translate?
07:06So, come ye young fellas, little and big, come you young women, and may ye be all jolly.
07:20Come for the sport, the dancing and the singing, the ring and the music, and my blessing
07:31forever on Toastal Nagaleva, the festival.
07:34Isn't that?
07:35What a beautiful chorus.
07:36Can we sing it up to her dad?
07:50Perfect.
07:51Can we sing it up to her dad?
07:53Can we sing it up to her dad?
07:58Yeah.
07:59Yeah.
08:00Can we sing it up to her dad?
08:03Can we sing it up to her dad?
08:08Can we sing it up to her dad?
08:09I love that I learned that from you and your dad.
08:27Thanks for that.
09:13.
09:18Each place I go to, I'm getting a different story and more
09:22information.
09:23I want to hear from all generations from young and old.
09:30And because this language, it's an ancient language.
09:36But a language is for now as well, and for a future generations.
09:41I've been travelling around meeting the most amazing people,
09:49but I know you do a huge amount in, obviously,
09:53within your own self and your talents and what you do,
09:57but in passing that along, is it because of how you learned?
10:01I think so. So the tradition, in a way, is very...
10:05that idea of preserving is very important,
10:10is very important, which can be sometimes problematic
10:13when you're trying to create.
10:14But I think that there's a space there now
10:17where there's a bit more movement with it,
10:20and it's not as closed as people might think, you know?
10:26Anyone can learn, anyone is allowed to learn.
10:30There's a kind of...
10:31the geolteacht idea can be problematic.
10:34It was essential to preserve the language,
10:37but it also separates, you know?
10:39And it's really, really important to constantly create linkages
10:44between people, and it really belongs to everybody.
10:47That's what I love about the younger generation coming up,
10:50is they have decided to have their own conversation
10:54in their own way.
10:55And it just opens up so many different spaces.
10:59It's not black and white, it's not this or that.
11:02There's so many different ways for this to happen
11:06and for this to...
11:08you know, for the language to continue.
11:10It's different in every language, and every language,
11:12it doesn't matter where in the world it is,
11:15you 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
11:23and, you know, where I'm from,
11:25that'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
11:34with all of that.
11:35It's just opening.
11:36It's just opening it all out.
11:38That's gorgeous.
11:39Go all that.
11:41That's beautiful.
11:42There are many times
11:58that are in a place where we can see
12:01we've been in the first place.
12:02We've got a lot of images
12:05on the way that we've left too.
12:07We've got a lot of information
12:09on the way that we've had
12:12It's been a long time for a long time.
12:14It's been a long time for a long time.
12:42created or tapped into in current day but I think it's been proven that it's very much still alive
12:48and very much current in the 21st century and that people are now starting to innovate with it
12:54and never damaging the tradition or never trying to change it but introducing it into what society
13:01is like now today. My point of view is that if we're told that tradition belongs in the past
13:07you have to do it the way it was done then and you're not allowed to add to that tradition
13:10what's that to say for next generation that are to come or the generation after them
13:15is it going to be a living tradition? I do feel like there's that kind of an opinion about
13:21the Irish language or about Irish traditional music or Sianna singing that it's very much something
13:26that you need to be born into or you need to have it in some capacity in your bloodline or you need
13:31to go to Connemara or you need to go to Gwythdóir in order to really feel it and to a certain degree
13:37I think that helps definitely if you want to learn about it and you want to feel it you need to go
13:41to where it's most alive. That's a great point. Yeah I don't think it should ever
13:46be exclusive I don't think it should ever belong to certain folk and not belong to anyone else
13:53because it's folk music at the end of the day it belongs to the people. Do you fancy picking a song
13:59or two or why not sure like I suppose when we're talking so much about how how it's rooted in our
14:05area so it's a famine song and that was written about the village of Carna which is only about 10
14:10minutes west of us but basically it's addressing Johnny Shoiga Johnny Joyce who was head of the
14:15soup kitchens at the time and it's written as a kind of a plamos a fake praise of this mighty
14:22Johnny Joyce who has the power to turn people away almost like a way to to get at him through
14:29through song and through through verse.
14:52Oh
14:57Oh
14:59Oh
15:00Oh
15:01Oh
15:05Oh
15:13Oh
15:15Oh
15:18Oh
15:19Oh
15:21Hey, it's an old day.
15:32This too long, oh, yeah.
15:39This is a shame, oh, God.
16:18God bless you.
16:48The way everybody has explained to me along the way,
17:14when you learn the song first, then it gets into your bones and into your blood and then the language comes to you more easy
17:25because you have something to give a foundation.
17:30And it's not as daunting as it was to me since that's been explained to me.
17:37I'm still terrified, but it doesn't seem as high a mountain. There's a way.
17:46Cotlain has kindly agreed to teach me a song in the rich Connemara tradition of Shannos.
17:52This will be my very first time tackling a piece with such complex language and intricate ornamentation, very typical of this area.
18:01I'm incredibly nervous about this one, but also really, really looking forward to learning it.
18:08When I was young, I was young, I was young, I was young, I was young.
18:22Yeah, that one. That's the one.
18:24Tell me about it.
18:25She's in bed and she has a clue.
18:30He had his way with her and now she's with child, probably.
18:36And so she's in bed sick and hoping and praying every day that he will come to ask her and that he'll bring the priest and that they'll be married and that they'll be happy ever after.
18:53But yeah, I kind of like the ones that the women were kind of, you know, I kind of feel the pain that they could, you know,
19:04you know, it's just the broken hearted, the hurt, the, you know,
19:08and it still happens, you know, it's just the story of life.
19:11It's the story of people.
19:13Yeah.
19:14You know.
19:15But, um...
19:16That's beautiful.
19:17So there we go.
19:18It's pulling at you.
19:19It's pulling at the heart strings.
19:21Yeah, yeah.
19:22Yeah.
19:23Yeah.
19:24Okay.
19:25Yeah.
19:26Yeah.
19:27Yeah.
19:28Oh, yeah.
19:29Oh, yeah.
19:42Oh, yeah.
19:43Yeah.
19:44Yeah.
19:45Yeah.
19:46Yeah.
19:48My man.
19:49My man.
20:19My man.
20:27This is one of the most complicated things I've ever learned.
20:30Really?
20:30It's so beautiful, yes, yeah.
20:32It's so beautiful, but it's complicated.
20:35Yeah.
20:36In one word there's one note, in another word there's four or five notes,
20:39but it's not necessarily in the same place as the verse before.
20:43Yeah, yeah.
20:44Or it won't fit.
20:45Yeah.
20:45You know, I mean, definitely, it's challenging me brain.
20:49It's challenging.
20:50It's good for the Alzheimer's.
20:51It's good for the Alzheimer's.
20:53Or to stop it to do.
21:19Yeah.
21:20Yeah.
21:21Whoa.
21:22Yeah.
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