Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire,1773, Voices of a Hidden Ireland, Eibhlín Dhubh Ní Chonaill, RTE, 1971

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More info below. * Click "show more" just under About tab * There's fotheidil (subtitles) with Gaeilge that you can switch on, if not on automatically. Excerpt from http://youtu.be/dmghQANfWGU http://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_%C3%93_Laoghaire http://homepage.eircom.net/~sosul/page56.html From the bilingual book & CD "CAOlNTE", ó BREANDÁN Ó MADAGÁIN, www.CIC.ie 2005 , ISBN 1 902420 97 7 (bog), ISBN 1 902420985 (crua): Chuala mé tuairisc ó fhinné cluaise, agus ainm an duine á chanadh arís is arís eile. (I heard an ear-witness account, & the name of the deceased being repeatedly sung again and again). Is í an ghairm seo atá le haithint ag tús an dreasa go minic in Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (This is the call which is echoed at the opening of many of the rounds in the Keen for Art O'Leary) D' fhéadfadh an caointeoir an ghairm a rá (is a athrá) nó í a chanadh.. (The keener was free to sing or to recite this call, once or repeatedly...) Le himeacht aimsire tháinig malairt bhéime ar fheidhm na caointeoireachta, is é sin an racht a ligean, cé gur fhan macalla den tseanfheidhm osnádúrtha leis i gcónaí. (With the passage of time there came a change of emphasis in the function of the keen: to that of emotional release, although echoes of the older supernatural function persisted dawn to our own time). An caointeoir aonair (bean ba mhinicí) a chanadh le seancheol reacaireachta, mar a bheadh cantaireacht ann (mórán siollaí ar an nóta céanna), neamhornáideach de ghnáth, agus críoch thitimeach (cadena) ina dheireadh. (The lone keener (more usually a woman) sang her verse to old reacaíreacht music, chant-like, many syllables on the same note, with little ornamentation and ending in a falling cadence). Bhíodh leagan áitiúil den chineál seo ceoil i ngach dúiche, a bhíodh ar eolas ag cách agus a d' úsáidtí arís is arís eile. (Each district had its own version of this kind of music, which all the local people would know from constantly hearing it). ** cf BREANDÁN Ó MADAGÁIN for music. ** Ní féidir a mhaíomh gurbh é sin an ceol áirithe a bhí ag Eibhlín Dubh leo, ach ar a laghad ar bith ní miste glacadh leis gurbh é an cineál céanna ceoil é, i.e. ceol caointeoireachta. (It cannot be claimed that these tunes were those used by Eibhlín Dubh, but one may safely assume that at least they are the kind of tunes which she would have used, i.e. keening tunes.) Srl. http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/Poetry/NiChonaill1.html Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (b. 1743 Derrynane) one of 22 children of Dómhnaill Mór Ó Conaill; aunt of Daniel O'Connell. Married at 15 to an old man who died 6 months after. Married again, against her family's wishes in 1767, to Art Ó Laoghaire (1747-73). Captain in the Hungarian Hussars; three children. Art proclaimed 'notoriously infamous' by the High Sheriff, .., srl Mo ghrá go daingean thú! Lá dá bhfaca thú ag ceann tí an mhargaidh thug mo shúil aire dhuit thug mo chroí taitnearnh duit d'éalaíos óm charaid leat i bhfad ó bhaile leat. [Och ochone!] + Vearsaí eile Is domhsa nárbh aithreach Chuiris parlús á ghealadh dhom, rúmanna á mbreacadh dhom, bácús á dheargadh dhom, brící á gceapadh dhom, ... rósta ar bhearaibh dom, mairt á leagadh dhom . codladh i gclúmh lachan dom go dtíodh an t-eadartha nó thairis dá dtaitneadh liorn. Mo chara thú go daingean! is níor chreideas riamh dod mharbh gur tháinig chugham do chapall is a srianta léi go talamh, is fuil do chroí ar a leacáin siar go t'iallait ghreanta mar a mbítheá id shuí 's id sheasarnh. Thugas léim go tairsigh, an dara léim go geata, an triú léim ar do chapall. Do bhuaileas go luath mo bhasa is do bhaineas as na reathaibh chomh maith is bhí sé agam, go bhfuaras romham tu marbh Cois toirín ísil aitinn, gan Pápa gan easpag, gan cléireach gan sagart do léifeadh ort an tsailm, ach seanbhean chríonna chaite do leath ort binn dá fallaing -- do chuid fola leat 'na sraithibh; is níor fhanas le hí ghlanadh ach í ól suas lem basaibh. [Och ochone!] + Vearsaí eile Ó MADAGÁIN: Ba é an gol an tríú céim - barrchéim ba dhóigh leat - den dreas caointeoireachta (The gol ('cry', or 'Irish Cry' as the English called it) was the 3rdstage of the round of keening - probably the culmination) An caointeoir a thosaíodh, ag deireadh an véarsa, agus thagadh an chuideachta ar fad isteach leis mar a bheadh 'Amen' acu lena raibh ráite sa véarsa, ag cur go mór le feidhm shóisialta an chaointe (The keener commenced it, at the end of the verse, and was joined by the entire company singing it as their Amen' to the sentiments expressed in the verse, and significantly extending the social function of the keen) Srl. Dráma Tom Mac Intyre http://www.coislife.ie/Leabhar.aspx?ID=47 http://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eibhl%C3%ADn_Dubh_N%C3%AD_Chonaill