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00:00Falls Road, stretching from Belfast city centre out of the suburban estates of Andersonstown.
00:06It's the archery of nationalist West Belfast.
00:09Over the past 20 years, the Falls has suffered some of the worst of the troubles.
00:13Whole streets disappeared in the flames of 1969.
00:17Yet locals say that while it's undoubtedly a troubled thoroughfare,
00:20it is not one without laughter and a personality all of its own.
00:30There was no way I was going to come on this journey without landing in Belfast.
00:38Belfast city, mouth of the river.
00:41People up here are incredible.
00:44The language, the song, the music, the traditions, the culture is strong as ever up here.
00:51In fact, stronger than ever, I'd go as far as saying.
00:55All the way from the Aureo traditions in South Armagh,
00:58and then you have these pockets up in the north of Ireland,
01:03particularly up in Derry, up in Belfast,
01:05who've held on to it for all of that time,
01:08surrounded by all the trials and tribulations that come with that,
01:11and have been proud to hold on to it.
01:14And I think we owe them more than anyone else.
01:19Yeah.
01:28I think we owe them more than anyone else in Belfast in Belfast in Belfast in Belfast in Belfast in Belfast.
01:41And there are people who are struggling...
01:45...to get out of the state of the country...
01:48...and run into the country.
01:50There are a lot of people who live in the country.
01:58There are people who live in the country's lives...
02:01...and they're in the country.
02:03I think you can see them in the country.
02:11that you're here and tell me tell me about yourselves and like tell me about
02:17how you met so funny story and I was Pearson's teacher when he was rang he
02:23and he was could blend each and came into primary school and I was just fresh
02:27at a university starting as a Gale school teacher and cross my land this
02:30wee red-haired boy came into my class five years of age singing all the
02:34Dubliners songs he knew all the words of every Dubliners song that I knew and was
02:39mad for singing oh yeah looking back where did the like singing thing come out
02:43of and so dad when I was about four dad gave me like a Dubliners CD I think it's
02:48kind of in our house I got a taste for the limelight and just couldn't help
02:52myself then unfortunately so Oriel is like a girl talk to area in the north of
02:58Ireland had a lot of people don't talk about enough I don't think so the region
03:02of Oriel itself is you're talking South Armagh most of County Louth Monaghan and
03:07it was a an area of real historical significance and especially to music
03:14and song tradition of the country and it became significant then for another
03:19reason as it was the last sort of a post of and Gaelic speakers in this side of
03:26the country in the in the Northeast and but it did day out it was late enough on
03:30that there were collectors and that understood that that the language was
03:35dying out and that if they didn't act fast something very precious was going to
03:39be lost so there were these collectors like and
03:42there was one man Sean O'Hannon he owned a grocery shop in Cross MacGlen and at
03:48that stage the language was kind of dying out in the town itself but the people
03:51that lived out in the countryside outside Cross they still spoke Irish and sang
03:55songs so when they would come in to get their groceries he would get like
03:58sheets of wrapping paper he would pull them down at the wall flip them around and he
04:02would ask them to sing the song and he wrote down the words and he collected
04:06like a hundred and fifty odd songs this way that otherwise would have completely
04:11died out there were other than really well-known collectors that collected in
04:14the area Lorcan O'Murray Luke Domlin because I was in a really fortunate
04:18position in the school that I could then spread these things with the younger ones
04:22and yeah I talked to it just like ducks to water if you look at people that's
04:29attended to school like really like real beacons for like there is that element
04:35of community behind it there's three of us in the house and if we all had
04:38children attention I would have I would 100% be sending children to a
04:42gale school I would say my brother would be the same my sister would definitely be
04:47the same so it would end up being a case there's another generation and it's
04:51expanding and expanding and growing naturally what do you think of this
04:56revival of the Irish language I think Irish medium education in the six
05:01counties especially and has been at the center of a lot of that growth credit has
05:07to go to the people of Belfast especially to the Irish language speaking
05:10community we're from Armagh but like they're they have a their slogan is now
05:14Ahabaray Janay and they had not only did they not have any funding or did they
05:19not have any state recognition they had opposition on every turnaround so we look
05:25to them like they said that they're the Irish language community in this city is
05:29very very special it's wonderful now I want to hear some songs please I heard you
05:37rehearsing in the distance there and I'm going mad to hear more so we're going to go
05:43with a nice light-hearted one we're going to go with tan alive so this is the
05:46Oriole version and and there's also another significance to it it was the
05:51last song that was heard and sang by a native speaker in County Armagh and that
05:57was that that's the story of Oriole that the songs actually lasted longer than the
06:01spoken language they were that it was like where the language clung to was the
06:04songs and we held fast to our songs even even when the spoken language was gone so it
06:09feels like it feels like a good one to do we'll give you a wee bit of that please
06:15like
06:17yeah
06:22yeah
06:24yeah
06:28yeah
06:30yeah
06:32yeah
06:34yeah
06:36Nillala nipweelar mojina Nillala filagra nishra kwa na chiri nyama
06:47Shodham mokki shodha chokki shodha nha chowalala nam
06:54shodha chokki shodha chokki jama
07:03Nillala nilala nipweelar mojina nillala filagra nishra kwa na chiri nyala
07:15MUSIC PLAYS
07:44Oh my god, gorgeous. It's such a light-hearted and gorgeous song.
07:50I just got really emotional, the thoughts of the language been gone more or less or unspoken
07:59and that it lived on through song and then this was the last song in the area.
08:06It's a very special place. Yeah, absolutely.
08:14I'm inspired by the music and the music that I've ever had.
08:23Now, I hope you've enjoyed the music and the music that I've ever had.
08:28I hope you've enjoyed the music and the music that I've ever had.
08:34I think that is a great thing to do.
08:37I think that's one of the most important things
08:41that I want to do in the world.
08:44I think that's a great thing to do.
08:46I think that's the only thing I want to do
08:50in the world is a great thing
08:53to do in the world and to do in the world.
09:04MUSIC PLAYS
09:07Ooh!
09:07Yeah.
09:09Yeah, nice, yeah.
09:10Yeah, nice, yeah.
09:11Because it's not about...
09:12Beautiful.
09:13You know, and as everyone said,
09:15it's between a waltz and a jig, you know,
09:17so it's just going between the two.
09:19It's intricate.
09:21Yeah, yeah.
09:21I used to go to your gigs when I was a teenager.
09:25You were teenagers probably too.
09:27And one thing that you've always done
09:28is sing and speak a scale.
09:31Like, were you raised with Irish
09:34or was it something that you naturally just...
09:36It was a natural way that you went into the world?
09:39Yeah.
09:40Couldn't speak English.
09:42There was no English in the house, you see.
09:44I remember when we were young, you know,
09:46like, it wasn't always easy being a grail girl.
09:48Do you know what I mean?
09:50Like, there was a bit of a...
09:52You know, truth be told,
09:53everyone was looking down on you, you know?
09:55And you talk English loudly,
09:57but to keep it in-house kind of thing.
10:00Isn't that awful?
10:01Um, I think...
10:03Now, my guess was,
10:05all right, this is a funny language.
10:06This is a family language.
10:07Everyone, loads of people speak about it.
10:09Quint in with Adring, hey, now.
10:11We keep it in amongst each other,
10:12keep it on the low.
10:14That's how it went.
10:16So you could...
10:16But, yeah, but...
10:18And then there was enough of us,
10:19we were in a bubble, you know?
10:21And there was another maybe 50 families
10:23spread around Dublin
10:24who were bringing their kids up
10:26Boscoilga.
10:27So, what can I say?
10:29We didn't know any better.
10:31Do you know?
10:31And were your parents Dubs?
10:33No.
10:34Carlo Limerick,
10:36they met in Dublin.
10:39They made the conscious decision.
10:41To raise you...
10:42Yeah, and to change their language
10:44to Gwilga.
10:46So...
10:46Because their court and language
10:47was English.
10:49All right.
10:49And then when they got married,
10:51they decided we were going to do this.
10:53It's amazing.
10:54Yeah, it's incredible.
10:56What a gift.
10:56And the two of them were revolutionaries.
10:58They were dying to go against the grain.
11:01Yeah.
11:01Everything.
11:01Oh, yeah.
11:02It's not expected,
11:03because this is the pale.
11:05Yeah.
11:05So it's not expected,
11:06Gwilga,
11:06but something deep-rooted
11:10could be here.
11:11I suppose that's what I've found
11:12in my life.
11:13People are really surprised.
11:14Black, yeah.
11:15You go, hmm?
11:16And they go,
11:17yeah, there's loads of us.
11:18Your house was an oasis.
11:21It's like a little girl church, yeah.
11:22Yeah, yeah.
11:23A little girl,
11:23people could come to talk,
11:25to be themselves,
11:26and to...
11:26But in English as well.
11:28Like, it was a bilingual house.
11:29It wasn't an Irish language house,
11:31per se.
11:32Well, that was in our teens,
11:33but not even with Boug,
11:34near at Cadham.
11:35Oh, yeah.
11:36Yeah, but your friends
11:37spoke her English.
11:37Yeah, but that was the worst thing.
11:39I mean, it was all great
11:40until you're trying to chat up a girl.
11:42You're expecting a phone call,
11:44and Dad answers the phone
11:45before you get downstairs.
11:46I was learning to say, Greg,
11:48and you're like,
11:49I hear it, come on.
11:51You're not doing me any favors here,
11:52Santa.
11:53Be like, Dad,
11:54I can't get a chance, man.
11:57See, we're from the city.
12:00It's a restlessness.
12:03That's how I read it.
12:05There's a restlessness, you know?
12:06So it was fairly conscious.
12:09I wanted to drive Greg.
12:11I wanted it to be loud, proud,
12:13and un-step-backable.
12:15And I wanted to, you know,
12:17just go at it and bring it,
12:19you know, anything I heard.
12:20I wanted to somehow have the equivalent
12:22of anything I was met up in.
12:24So I wasn't thinking
12:25of the rest of the country even.
12:26I was just thinking in Dublin.
12:28And it's nice when you sing,
12:29because getting to sing is a big curve.
12:32You have to go up your own little stairs
12:34inside yourself
12:35to be relaxed,
12:38making such a noise
12:40through a load of speakers, you know?
12:41So it takes a while.
12:42Like, it took me a long time
12:43to get there.
12:45But I was kind of writing anyway.
12:48Yeah.
12:48And I was writing on Scalga,
12:50because, and then weirdly enough,
12:52not weirdly,
12:53but Scalga's a lot stronger
12:54and more direct, you know?
12:55I know.
12:56It works with the tunes we play and so.
12:58Absolutely.
12:59So, I hope,
13:00I hope everyone else can get,
13:02and I hope you can get,
13:04to a place where
13:05it's even Stevens.
13:07And it's easy.
13:08You know?
13:09That's, for me,
13:10that's what I want for everyone,
13:12because...
13:12It's easy.
13:14It'd be nice if it was just like that
13:16and you could,
13:17yeah.
13:18Dip into any language, whatever.
13:19Because we should be a bilingual society.
13:22Yeah, that's what I want to hear.
13:23We should be able to speak Irish English
13:24and flip with whatever you want to do.
13:27Are you going to play with us?
13:29What's up with us?
13:30Listen,
13:32I don't think I can ever
13:34play the baron up front of you, right?
13:36Ah, come on.
13:37Listen!
13:38That's the way to think,
13:38I remember,
13:39when I first saw you playing the baron,
13:42I was absolutely lit.
13:44I was absolutely lit.
13:45Yeah.
13:46I was absolutely lit.
13:47I was absolutely lit.
13:55So,
13:55I'll be a trupper of my nest,
13:57only that I would make.
14:00I'll be a trupper of my nest,
14:02take it to the air,
14:03how nothing I would make.
14:06Take it to the air,
14:08how nothing I would make.
14:10So tell to the mach, you want to reach, don't tell to the mach.
14:40Oh my god, fun, fun.
15:09I'm meeting with the wonderful and very special Lillis O'Leara,
15:14whose early encouragement set me on this path.
15:17I'm so excited to share what I've learned with him.
15:20Tell me this now, how did you get on?
15:24I got on fabulously.
15:27You had a great journey.
15:29It's opened my eyes, you know, and it's...
15:33and I really appreciate you chatting with me
15:36and sending me on my way.
15:38I really, really did.
15:40You had that curiosity and you got over your fear.
15:44That was a big thing, getting over the fear.
15:47I think that's the main thing for anyone.
15:49Yeah.
15:50But what do you think of...
15:52what do you think of what's happening in Ireland at the moment?
15:55Well, I kind of like what's happening a lot around the language.
15:59There's a lot of positivity around the language
16:02that I don't remember from years ago.
16:05and I know kneecap are controversial,
16:09but a lot of it is coming from kneecap
16:12and the fact that they are standing up for people's rights
16:15and that sort of thing.
16:17The whole idea of going into the Geldtacht,
16:19some people think,
16:20that Croucher, God knows,
16:22they just skin you alive and send you home.
16:24But that's not the way...
16:26that's not what you found.
16:27Not at all.
16:28I found there was such a...
16:30just a lovely community.
16:33Yeah.
16:34What was your favourite song?
16:35I mean...
16:37Donalogue is the song that kind of haunts me the most.
16:42Right.
16:43I loved how...
16:44with Donalogue and loads of songs,
16:46how each area claimed it as their own
16:49and said that theirs was the best version.
16:51Yeah.
16:52You had to choose then which version you liked best.
16:54Well, yeah.
16:57Well, I had to choose who I thought would...
17:00would get the least cross at me
17:02if I didn't choose theirs.
17:07And I tried to learn each song in a day.
17:10Mm-hmm.
17:11And I wish I had a week for each one.
17:13I think on cooling
17:15I might have put a bit too much pressure on myself.
17:19And I got a bit frustrated
17:21that I felt I wasn't able to do justice.
17:24Not in one day.
17:25Cooling's not a song for one day.
17:27It's not a song for one day.
17:28It's not a song for one...
17:29I wish you had a...
17:30I wish I had a...
17:32found that out at the beginning from me saying
17:34what song should I not...
17:35It's good to set yourself a challenge.
17:37And also...
17:38the pronunciations in every place changes, obviously.
17:42And I did...
17:43I knew there would be dialect,
17:45but dear God,
17:46like I go to one area
17:48and learn a bit
17:49thinking I was doing well
17:50and then move on to the next area.
17:52They'd say,
17:53no, you don't say it like that.
17:56And then I'd get my head around that
17:57and then go to the next and the same.
17:59I've more of an understanding of...
18:02what people did physically.
18:06Like when I talk to people about their parents
18:08and their grandparents collecting songs
18:11and how physical that is as well.
18:14It's climbing up a mountain
18:17with a battered piece of recording equipment
18:21that under our arm
18:23trying to get the last of these songs
18:26from generations who wouldn't be around forever.
18:29That's right.
18:30And the songs would be gone with them.
18:31I understand...
18:33the importance of it...
18:36more now.
18:37And you've dedicated so much of your life...
18:40to it.
18:41And I...
18:42I...
18:43I've heard from people as I travelled...
18:45how important that was,
18:46but I've gotten an understanding...
18:48of how important...
18:50the work is that you do.
18:53What's it?
18:54What's it?
18:56Come on, Mark.
18:57Thanks, Emelda.
18:58I'm glad you're here.
18:59You're welcome.
19:00For all you've done and you still support me...
19:02and saying, go for it, Emelda.
19:03That's it.
19:04You did a great job.
19:05Not a bad start.
19:06Not a bad start.
19:07Very good start.
19:08Very good start.
19:38.
19:46.
19:48.
19:50.
19:52.
19:54.
19:56.
19:58.
20:00.
20:02.
20:03.
20:06Sorry.
20:08So that's it. You have it all.
20:10It's a bukhan a nire a nire, bukhan a nire a faa.
20:14It's bukhan a nire a nire a nire,
20:16it's goti no stia ba baan.
20:18Oh, and then I wait.
20:20Oh, then I'll wait.
20:22Dili no daus o daus, dili no daus o di.
20:26Dili no daus o daus o daus, dili no daus o di.
20:30I want to...
20:32Oh, I have to hold it.
20:34Dili no daus o daus, dili no daus o daus o.
20:38Dili no daus o daus.
20:40Oh, I like that.
20:42That's the other one.
20:46Oh yes.
20:54Dili no daus o daus, dili no daus o di.
20:58Dili no daus o daus, dili no daus o di.
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23:06each song within a single day despite the intensity of the process
23:15this has given me a deeper appreciation for the richness and diversity of these songs
23:21and the powerful role that music plays in preserving and reviving our stories of our people
23:30and our land
24:00so
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