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Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, Volume 6, Issue 27, Page 22

Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, Volume 6, Issue 27, Page 22
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Irish Folk Song Society
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Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society
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6
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30.3 ].[ An File.) III.[ The Wind.] IL[ The Poet.] III.NOTES.AIRMoores Ive a secret to tell thee in the Tenth Number of the Melodies(1834), No MS. copy has been found. A more extended form of the tune waspublished by Bunting in his 1840 volume, p. 38, with the title of Why should notpoor folk? but he fails to note the onpectio betwee4l the two. e statesA Chonnachta an tsigh, an tsuilt agus a spirt,A n-imirt s a n-l an fhiona,Sin chugaibh mo phg ar roith anne a rod,Leigiom le sel gaoithe 1. -Ta mise boO a mboige na seOd,Mar brightear gach seOrt bldh dhom,Ach is mian horn fOs tarraing dbhur gcomhair,Muna gcluine me ach ceOl piopa!MS. 18, p. 58. MS. readings: I, 1, on ndeas. I, 2, fai he. I, 5, h1os. 1, 5, mur mbiin.II, 1, Sin. Il, 2, ndeanan. II, 3, sgaolim. II, 6 and III, 7, mion. II, 7, teligh at math.Ii, 8, Eamonn. III, 8, roigh. III, 4, 1 omitted after ghaoithe. III, 7, dat gcoir.TRANSLATION.[ The Poet.] I. 0 wind from the south with the soft clear drops,You that make every sward grassy,And bring back the fish and give heat to the sunAnd abundance of fruit to the branches,If it is to the far north where I once livedThat you are minded to blow,May the King of Power preserve you in strength,And give the taste of my mouth to that country!I blow from the south and can perform feats (?)Which no one else on earth can do,For I lay winter low and scatter the ice,And banish the snow from the mountains.Since you are in need you shall have my strength,And I am fain to succour you,I shall leave my blessing in every place you choose,And always in Caher Edmund!0 blissful, joyous, sporting Connacht,-Home of gaming and of wine-drinking,Here goes my kiss to you rushing along the road,I send it on the wings of the wind.I am living in splendid luxury,Where every kind of food is dressed for me,But yet I am fain to draw towards you,If I should but hoar the music of the pipes!(Introduction, p. 98), that he noted downY Why should not poor folk? in the year1792, from the performance of an old man, well known by the soubriquet of PoorFolk, who formerly perambulated the northern counties, playing on a tin fiddle.But in the Index he gives the date he obtained it as 1807. Mr. Moffat (Minstrelsyof Ireland, p. 114) states that he is inclined to think that our air has someaffinity with an old melody called Jacks Health, printed in Playfords DancingMaster, seventh edition, 1686, and used later on in the Village Opera, 1729 [ p. iii,etc. Mr. Moffat prints this air (Appendix, No. X, p. 348), but the resemblance doesnot seem to be very great.WORDSNoted by Lynch from Joe Rush, a shoemaker, of Caslilebar. Lynchsoriginal transcript has been used in preference to the fair copy in MS. 7, no. 68, inwhich he made some alterations. This fair copy was printed, though not quiteaccurately, by the late Mrs. C. M. Fox in vol. VII of this ,Tournal, p. 24, together withthe prose translation from MS. 32, no. 94. MS. 7 was for a time lent to Dr. DouglasHyde, and from it he took the copy which is printed at p. 102 of the second editionof his Abhrdin Ghrddha Oh lige Ohonnacht (1931).The English verses printed by Bunting from a literal translation of theoriginal Irish, by John Brown, Esq., do not alosely resemble the original.A G-haoith O uDeas is apparently part of the song called DornhnallMeirgeach (Dour Donal ). A different tune with this title was collected andprinted by Bunting (1809, p. 69) and appropriate words (in the same metre as thoseprinted above) were obtained by Lynch. This tune. will be dealt with in its place inthis edition. It appears from the title of the tune Domhnall Meirgeach inMS. 29, p. 251 that the poets name was Donal Macnamara. He was evidently aConnaohtman who was living in Munster. Caher Edmund (II, 8) is a townlandin the barony of Kilmaine and parish of Ballinrobe, County Mayo (Sheet 118 of the six-inch ordnance map of that County). -The second half of II, 1 is meaningless. The text is doubtless corrupt.
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27
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22
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1967-01-01T00:00:00
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