Skeealyn Vannin, Disk 1 Track 09: Conversation: Annie Kneale, Ballagarrett, Bride, J.W. (Bill) Radcliffe and Mark Braide, with Kevin Danaher
https://www.youtube.com/embed/98YO0Ttmv2cDate(s): 1948
Creator(s): Irish Folklore Commission
Transcript: A. Kneale
And then they would be cutting the barley all along you know, August and September, but they were getting their bit then extra.
M. Braide
Would you give us the bit of the cow and the fair over, it cut on the end of a record again.
J. W. Radcliffe
Could you start at Laa Pherick, tra ta ny guoiee cheet.
Could you start at Patrick’s Day, when the geese came.
Could you tell us about when the wild geese were coming again and then tell us about the woman taking the cow to the fair?
A. Kneale
Aw, the, yn guoiee? V’ad cheet voish Erin ayns yn Arragh, ayns yn Arragh,
Aw, the geese? They were from Ireland in the Spring, in the Spring,
and v’ad gra ‘Cur huc eh, cur huc eh,’ yn deiney va goaill bit dy vee ayns ny...
and they were saying ‘Give it to them, give it to them’, the men were taking a bit to eat in the...
M. Braide
Ny magheryn?
The fields?
A. Kneale
As ‘Cur huc eh, cur huc eh’, and then as in the ouyr as ooilley over
And ‘Give it (a bit) to them, give it to them’,... and in the autumn and all’s over
v’ad gra ‘Gow giare eh, gow giare eh’, gow, to take it off them.
they were saying ‘Take it short, take it short’, “gow”, to take it off them.
As va ben dy row, shenn ven ayns Skylley Breeshey, as ren ee goll dys yn margey dy creck yn booa,
and there was an old woman in Kirk Bride, and she did go to the market to sell the cow,
as ren ee creck y booa da dooinney,
and she did sell the cow to a man,
as traa ennagh elley, ren ee briaght yn dooinney, ‘Cre’n aght ta’n booa, Juan’?
and another time (later) she did enquire of the man, ‘What way (how) is the cow, John’?
Yn dooinney Juan, ‘Aw, dy chooilley oayll aynjee’, as ‘C’red ta shiu jannoo eisht’, she said.
The man John, ‘Aw, every spell is in her’, and ‘What are you doing then’, she said.
‘Aw, t’ee bwoailtagh’, he said, ‘T’ee braddagh, as ta’n Jouyl aynjee, but t’ee mie da ny curn’.
‘Aw, she is bewitched’, he said, ‘She is thievish, and the Devil is in her, but she is good for the can’ (milk).
M. Braide
Shen eh. What are those noises they say for driving (calling) the pigs?
That’s it.
A. Kneale
Aw “Tooragh! Torraa Toorraa”.
J.W Radcliffe
What for the calves?
A. Kneale
Shebeg, shebeg.
J. W. Radcliffe
Was there anything for the lambs?
A. Kneale
No.
J.W Radcliffe
Or for the dogs?
A. Kneale
No, I never heard it at all.
M. Braide
What about the horses when they were ploughing?
A. Kneale
Aw, the horses when they were “driving” “yn shireagh”.
cur yn shireagh ayns y “keedn” (keeaght), ayns y “keedn”, that’s the plough to put the “shireagh” in, it’s the pair of horses, that’s what the old people always called it, the pair of horses, “shireagh”, and the “keedn” (keeaght) was the plough or the “shiree” or they would say “cur yn shiree” either.
J. W. Radcliffe
What were people saying when they were hearing the wind dropping a bit?
A. Kneale
Aw, ‘t’eh sonsheraght, t’eh sonsheraght’, but what else did I say that the wind was doing?
Aw, ‘it is whispering, it is whispering’.
M. Braide
G’eaishtagh, nagh row?
Listening, wasn’t it?
A. Kneale
Aw, g’eaishtagh. Yes, that was when it would be holding you know, softening you know, and there would hardly be a sound. Sh sh, like that “t’eh geaishtagh”, and when they would be making the porridge, oatmeal porridge, stirring it with the “maidjey boiragh” (worrying stick) the pot stick, you know, the oatmeal porridge’ll fizz up. Sometimes used to be fizz..zzup.
‘T’eh sonsheraght, t’eh sonsheraght, gow jeh eh, gow jeh eh. T’eh jeant nish’.
‘It is whispering it is whispering, take it off (the heat), take it off. It is done now’.
(Transcribed and translated by Walter Clarke, Ramsey)
Language: Manx
Collection: Sound Archive
Level: WHOLE
ID number: SA 0579/1/9
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