Turas Siar 158 - Máire Uí Chaoimh as an gCloich Mhóir, Acaill, ag caint le Máirtín Mac Donnchadha faoi Bhríd Mhic Confhaola, filíocht ‘Seán agus An Bás’

Go dté mé go Baile Chrua.

May I go to Baile Chrua.

Chun a ghearradh

To cut it.

An fear is áille faoi éadaí Chríost.

The most beautiful man in Christ's clothing.

Sin an méid anois a bhfuil agamsa don don do leagan Phádraig Dé.

That's all I have now for Patrick's version of God.

A bhfuil agamsa.

What I have..

Sea agus tá gach uile leagan dhó ann is cosúil bhí mé ag breathnú sa leabhar sin Éigse na Féile a chuir Seán Ó Mónaigh agus an comhlacht náisiúnta drámaíochta amach agus tá leagan eile dhó ansin a dtugann siad Seán agus an bás air ach tá sé i bhfad níos cosúlaí leis an leagan atá agatsa ansin ar Bhóthar Luimnigh. Casadh an bás liom an gadaí gránna sa chúl le claí. Sin é an chaoi a dtosaíonn sé agus deireann an bás troid anall chugam agus tóg mo lámh is inis dhom a Sheáinín conas tae mar a deir tusa agus leanann sé ar aghaidh mar sin agus an raibh sé sin le cloisteáil go coitianta nó

Yes, and it seems there are every version of it. I was looking in that book Éigse na Féile which Seán Ó Mónaigh and the national drama company published, and there's another version of it there that they call Seán and the Death, but it's much more similar to the version you have there on Bóthar Luimnigh. Death met me, the ugly thief, at the back with a fence. That's how it starts, and Death says, "Fight over to me and take my hand and tell me, little Seán, how to make tea as you say," and it continues like that, and was that commonly heard or not.

Deir tusa:

You say:.

Bhuel, tá fhios agam go raibh sé ag mathair agus fuair seisean ó mathair mór é.

Well, I know that he got it from his mother and he got it from his grandmother.

Anois tá barúil agam féin agus níl fhios agam an bhfuil sé cruinn nó nach mbeidh nach bhfuil. Bhí Bridget go minic istigh ag Mathair Mór Seán fad

Now I have my own opinion and I don't know if it is correct or not. Bridget was often inside at Seán's Grandmother's for a long time.

Agus bhí fear scéal iontach a bhí ann.

And there was a man who had a wonderful story.

Agus bhí dánta agus amhrán mar sin aige.

And he had poems and songs like that.

Is b'fhéidir gur uaidh sin a fuair Bríd an an leagan sin.

It is possible that Bríd got that version from him.

An leagan sin sea mar is leagan Iorrais atá ansin tá sé sa leabhar Éigse na Féile agus tá cúpla tagairt déanta dhó atá atá spéisiúil go maith. Déanann sé tagairt do Sheán an Chomhrá gurb shin é an fáth a dtugtar Seán agus an Bás air nó an Bás agus Seán an Chomhrá air agus deirtear faoi Seán an Chomhrá. Bhí baint éigin ag Seán an Chomhrá le Inis Gé sílim nach raibh agus tá mé a cheapadh go mb'fhéidir gur Philibín Seán an Chomhrá é féin agus deireann cuid de na nótaí i leabhar éigse na féile seo sean nótaí anois amach as irisí agus seanleabhra mar a déarfá an an t-iris Béaloideas agus mar sin ach déanann cuid acu tugann siad an an Seán a chomhrá féin Seán Ó Muiné mar mar údar don don phíosa ach ansin tá cuntas eile ann gurb éard a bhí ann ná go raibh caradas idir Seán an Chomhrá agus Dumnic Mhic Coscair.

That version is indeed the Iorras version as it is in the Éigse na Féile book and there are a few references made to it that are quite interesting. It makes reference to Seán an Chomhrá, which is why it is called Seán and the Death or the Death and Seán an Chomhrá, and it is said about Seán an Chomhrá. Seán an Chomhrá had some connection with Inis Gé, I think not, and I am thinking that perhaps Philibín Seán an Chomhrá himself, and some of the notes in this Éigse na Féile book say old notes now from journals and old books as you would say in the Béaloideas journal and so on, but some of them give Seán an Chomhrá himself Seán Ó Muiné as the author of the piece, but then there is another account that there was a friendship between Seán an Chomhrá and Dumnic Mhic Coscair.

údar

Author.

Agus gur gurb éard a tharla go raibh Seán an Chomhrá tinn ar feadh tamaill agus tháinig Dominic ar cuairt aige tar éis gan é a fheiceáil le fada agus chuir sé chuir sé a thuairisc agus sé an sé an rud a dúirt Seán an Chomhrá leis ná go dtug sé cor coise don bháis don iarraidh seo.

And what happened was that Seán an Chomhrá was sick for a while and Dominic came to visit him after not seeing him for a long time and he inquired about him and what Seán an Chomhrá said to him was that he gave death the slip this time.