"There'll be no one at the party but tradespeople."
Connemara Community Radio's program on the An Haicléara Mánas [Manus the hackler], a Gaelic manuscript detailing the Connemara folklore tale of a Journeyman's marriage in Errislanen, as recorded by Patrick Lyden (O'Leydane) of the village of Falkeeragh, Clifden in County Galway, Republic of Ireland. This manuscript is singular for a number of linguistic and historical reasons related to its inclusion of South and Mid-Connaught Irish and its phonetic spelling as well as it having been written or recorded during the time when the Irish language had been proscribed by English authorities, thus its inclusion in Irish studies programs in academia. Furthermore, it gives us a historical record and a social anthropological insight into how the expulsion of Roman Catholic Irish from the trade associations and the eventual dissolution of Irish guilds. Thomas Lyden's commentary is included throughout the program and can be heard early on at the 0:29 second mark.
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| family fields in the scenic village of Falkeeragh |
