A poor scholar, wandering a country road at night (where else?), encounters a corpse on the road. “ Mac an Diabhail ina Shagart” (“The Devil’s Son as Priest”). When studying Irish Folklore in college sometime during the early Holocene I came across the story that would eventually form the basis of my own novel, Knock, Knock, Open Wide. The townspeople buried him before he could spread the plague, and before he had expired from it. Charlotte Stoker told of a man dying from the disease, lying on the side of the road. When crafting Dracula, Bram Stoker anecdotally drew on his mother’s recounting of the days of terror and madness when Sligo was gripped by cholera in 1832. It’s a happy marriage, horror and Irish folklore. They wander the skies for nine hundred years. The macabre in Irish folklore is rarely accompanied with screaming. It will always be there.Īnyone who has had to walk an Irish country road in the dead of night knows that feeling of certainty. Not, “It was said by some that on the road to Kilrush…” On dark nights cycling without a light so as not to warn police patrols of my approach, I instinctively turned my head at times to ensure that the long clammy hand was not reaching out.” It followed travellers at night stretching out this long hand as it tried to grasp them by the back of the neck. “On the road to Kilrush was a figure with a long hand eight feet long. He hears of fairy forts, death coaches pulled by headless horses, driven on by headless coachmen. In vivid passages he describes the stories he hears as he moves in silent darkness from one tiny village to another, spreading revolution. Ó Máille renders a country abandoned and betrayed by its own cultural elite and where the task of preserving the literary, linguistic and musical heritage of the nation has fallen to the common people. No dry military memoir, Ó Máille did not simply describe how the war was fought, but why it was fought. It is generally considered to be the one bona-fide piece of literature to arise from that conflict. (And in a way, including it would just confuse matters.First published in 1936, On Another Man’s Wound was written by Earnán Ó Máille and recounts his time as a guerrilla fighter during the Irish War of Independence in the nineteen twenties. Again, there's nothing in any of this that impacts the accuracy of what we have in the article. Flower for example (as a "Celticist") published on the Irish/Blasket tradition's of storytelling and poetry in general. The folklore commission and British Museum types that recorded Peig's stories published, but not with a focus on Peig entirely. Similarly, while Maidhc recorded the stories that were ultimately published in Machnamh seanmhná, Peig herself is credited as "author", with Séamus Ennis as "translator", and Pádraig Ua Maoileoin & Máire Ní Chinnéide with additional pub/editing credits. This is largely because, while Maidhc "recorded" the stories, Ní Chinnéide wrote them down, editted them, and saw them published. Guliolopez ( talk) 20:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC) Reply FYI - Máire Ní Chinnéide is often referenced as the "author" of Peig. I don't think that there is anything in what is included in the sentence above that is self conflicting or incorrect. She dictated much of the folklore and stories that are referenced in Machnamh seanmhná to the folklorists AND her son, and much of the content for Peig to her son, (Mícheál Ó Gaoithín, Micheal O'Guiheen, Maidhc File). EamonnPKeane ( talk) 13:40, 10 January 2008 (UTC) Reply I couldn't comment on the "illiterate" bit, but Peig dictated to many people. I thought she was literate in English but not in Irish, and dictated her stories to her son. Quote: "Peig was illiterate, but dictated many of her stories to Seosamh Ó Dálaigh of the Irish Folklore Commission and Dr. This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. Ireland Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland Template:WikiProject Ireland Ireland articles If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ireland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Ireland on Wikipedia. This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Biography Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography Template:WikiProject Biography biography articles For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people.
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