The sonorous verse of Duncan Ban MacIntyre can now be heard on your phone any time you visit the Scottish Poetry Rose Garden in Glasgow’s Queen’s Park.
Friends of Queen’s Park invited Alan Riach and Allan MacDonald to mark his 300th anniversary last year, and they provided a remarkable open air music and poetry double act in the garden, presenting extracts both in the original Gaelic and in English translation.
Island Voices were on hand to film the event, and we’re delighted that visitors can now access the recording in situ through these displayed QR codes, and so get a taste again of a magical occasion.
Queen’s Park will be humming again with snippets of Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain…
Cur síos ag Seán Ó Con Ceanainn, as an Móinteach, Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe, ar an iománaíocht (na camógaí) agus ar an bpeil; ar bazaar na Faiche Móire an áit a casadh a bhean chéile air aimsir rástaí na Gaillimhe; a gcéad ghluaisteán, Baby Austin, i 1956, agus haicní spárálach a gcomharsan; sábháilt agus díol na móna; an saol pósta buil a mhuintir i gcomparáid le saol an lae inniu; damhsaíochaí, bannaí, ceol, agus a athair ag píobaireacht i Mionlach mar ar casadh a bhean air (máthair Sheáin); tithí ósta; saothrú páí agus ganntanas airgid; beatha; agus siopaí.
(Seán Concanonn from Montiagh (South), Claregalway, Co. Galway, discusses: hurling and football; Eyre Square bazaar, where he first met his wife, during the Galway Races; their first car, a Baby Austin, in 1956, and their neighbours’ economic hackney; saving and selling turf; married life sharing the family home in comparison to today; dances; bands, music, and how his father met his own wife while piping in Menlough; public houses; working wages and the scarcity of money; food; and shops.)
Part of the Taisce Bheo na nGael project in which the UHI Language Sciences Institute, together with Irish partners, record the natural speech of Irish and Scottish Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques. Happy to host the videos on our YouTube channel!
A Word-linked transcript is available here (including an internal link back to Part 1 also): https://multidict.net/cs/12529
