Scoil: Béal Átha Fhinghín (B.)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal) (ar lean)

   “Tadhg Ciaruigheach and a woman, a neighbout of his, each gave an order to Mick Báid in Dunmanway for a pair of shoes...”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   Ach ceol agus aoibhneas aingeal"

   Tadhg of course got his shoes the first and won the whiskey.

   

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2. (gan teideal)

   “When she was a child they had a workman named Tim Sexton...”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   [o William Shorten, Shinagh, Dunmanway - 60 -)
   I heard my grandmother tell this. She was Bridget OBrien from Carraig near Clonakilty (m. Curley ODonovan Báid) She died about 40 years ago or more, and was then up to 90.]
   When she was a child they had a workman named Tim Sexton. He was a poet, (in Irish), and he could neither read nor write. He was a good workman but he was always composing and singing and he kept the other men idle listening to him. One time he wanted to marry a Coughlan girl, but her people wouldnt allow the match. He composed a song, and here is some of it -
   "Is mó óig bhean ar mhéolas go táscmhar
   Ó bhórd Cionn tSáile go Léim
   Do gheobhainn-se le pósadh 'gus fáilte
   A's mór-chuid le n áireamh den spré
   Ach ní thógfainn go deo uatha [?] offer
   ?* Ó leonadh ann á siúd ... liúm héin
   As is dóigh liom go nólfad gan spleádhcas
   Istig idtig an tábhairne go shéimh,
   ~ m ... cailín no faid-phíbh báine
   Arbh ainm di Cáit mo gcuach mbuí ~"

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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   Teangacha

   Gaeilge

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   William Shorten

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   60

   Seoladh

   An Sonnach, Co. Chorcaí