Caoineadh, by Rosi Hayes

Caoineadh

by Rosi Hayes

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1.	Samradh/Summer 04:56	info	buy track
2.	Breda 04:57	info	buy track
3.	Echo 04:01	info	buy track
4.	Things 01:35	info	buy track
5.	Johnny Seoighe 03:10	lyrics	buy track
Oh Johnny Joyce, heed my voice, as I come to you full of hope / You are the Star of Knowledge, the brightest beacon in the Temple of God / You are the flower of youth, of the finest talk that my eye has seen since I was born / And for the love of Christ, grant me relief, or at least until Christmas Eve is over. / And on the next day I got the piece of paper, and I wasn't happy, me going on my way / But I got no answer at all that day, but my wife and my children left out under the dew. / I am tired, bitter, lashed, frozen, upset and lacerated with the force of the walking / And Mister Joyce, the workhouse is full, and they won't accept one more man. / It is a great source of fame to Carna as long as this couple is passing through / For the woman's appearance is as fine as the Morning Star when it rises / The queen is ill and lying low, the doctors say that she will die / The reason for it all as they said it to me, that she is not married to Mister Joyce. – translated by Dr. Sean Williams, Evergreen University
6.	Ortha an Leona 03:29	lyrics	buy track
Ortha an Leona Do chuaigh Críost ar an gcreig do leonadh cos eich; chuir sé fuil le fuil feoil le feoil, cnámh le cnámh. Mar shlánaigh sé sin Go slánaí sé seo. Amen. A Charm For an Injury Christ walked in a rocky place. A steed’s foot was hurt. He put blood to blood flesh to flesh bone to bone. As He healed that may He heal this. Amen.
7.	Last Walk 01:15	info	buy track
8.	Ocrás 04:11	lyrics	buy track
My grief on the ocean it is surely wide stretched between me and my dearest love. I am left behind to make lament —not expected for ever beyond the sea. —Mo Bhrón Ar An Bhrarraige
9.	Amhrán na Leabhair 05:14	lyrics	buy track
Oh Johnny Joyce, heed my voice, as I come to you full of hope / You are the Star of Knowledge, the brightest beacon in the Temple of God / You are the flower of youth, of the finest talk that my eye has seen since I was born / And for the love of Christ, grant me relief, or at least until Christmas Eve is over. / And on the next day I got the piece of paper, and I wasn't happy, me going on my way / But I got no answer at all that day, but my wife and my children left out under the dew. / I am tired, bitter, lashed, frozen, upset and lacerated with the force of the walking / And Mister Joyce, the workhouse is full, and they won't accept one more man. / It is a great source of fame to Carna as long as this couple is passing through / For the woman's appearance is as fine as the Morning Star when it rises / The queen is ill and lying low, the doctors say that she will die / The reason for it all as they said it to me, that she is not married to Mister Joyce. – translated by Dr. Sean Williams, Evergreen University
10.	Scealdrama 01:08	info	buy track
11.	Caillithin na Glaoiti 04:28	info	buy track
12.	Treasures 03:13	info	buy track
13.	The food is not enough 05:36	info	buy track
14.	A song for a little child 02:01	info	buy track
15.	Breaking Words 01:07	info	buy track
16.	Amhrain 02:19	info	buy track
17.	I want 02:08		buy track
18.	When I die 01:28	info	buy track
19.	Tumbled 00:39		buy track
20.	Starve Here 01:31	info	buy track
21.	Untitled 00:18		buy track
22.	A Charm for an Injury 01:41	lyrics	buy track
Do chuaig Críost ar an gcreig, do leonadh cos eich; chuir sé fuil le fuil, feoil le feoil, cnámh le cnámh. Mar shlánaigh sé sin Go slánaí sé seo. Amen. Christ walked in a rocky place. A steed’s foot was hurt. He put blood to blood flesh to flesh bone to bone. As He healed that may He heal this. Amen.

about

“The starry frost descends
and settles on every pool:
I am wretched and astray
I am abandoned on the peaks.”
-Suibhne Geilt

a sound work
by rosi hayes

Commissioned by Battery
Park City Authority for
Brian Tolle's Irish Hunger Memorial

credits

released March 1, 2008

Robbie Harris, bodhrán
Ivan Goff, composer, Echo’s Lament, flute, uillean pipes
Natasha Ivins, field recordings in South Sudan
Main vocals: Joseph Heaney, Margaret Barry, Micheál Ó Cuaig, Breda Maycock, Bríd Ní Mhaoilchiaráin, Seamus Ó Flaherty, Peter Domic Awolich, and Aodán McGlynn
Story Theater: Séan Ó Morónaigh, Áine Uí Chuill, Dónal Ó Liatháin, and Seán Ó Muimhneacháin, all of An Comhlachas Náisúnta Drámaíochta, Galway; Aisling Ní Chaonaigh, Seosamh Ó Cuirrín, Rónán Ó Flaherty, and Seosamh Ó Guairin, all of the Ard National School, Galway
Readings: Áine Uí Chuill, Kate O’Toole, Séan Ó Coileain, Chloe Joyce, Ashley Flaherty, Shauna Keene, Sharon Kennedy, John MacHale, Denise O’Reilly, Micheál Ó Cuaig, Chloe Joyce, Catherine Pryce, Elaine Mary Fahy, Oona McGlynn
Interviews: Augustine Allotey, Ghana; Joel Berg, New York Coalition Against Hunger; Denise Cerreta, One World Everybody Eats; Peter Domic Awolic, Sudan; Simon O’Hora, Clifden, Galway; Eddie Martinez, New York City; Michelle and Victor, New York City
Consultants: Séan Ó Morónaigh, Director, An Comhlachas Náisúnta Drámaíochta; Micheál Ó Cuaig; Mick Moloney; Maureen Murphy, Hofstra University; Sean Williams, Evergreen College; Séan Ó Coileain, then of University College Cork; Aileen Dillane, University College Cork; Nancy Scheper-Hughes, University of California, Berkeley; Macdara Mac Uibh Aille; UCD Delargy Centre for Irish Folklore and the National Folklore Collection; William Cobert, the American Irish Historical Society
Coordination of Readers: John Amenhauser
Sound Engineering: Skylar Stoddard
Sources: An Duanaire 1600-1900, Poems of the Dispossessed, edited and translated by Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella, and published by Foras na Gaelige, 1981; Peig, the Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island, translated into English by Bryan MacMahon, Syracuse University Press,1974; The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, edited, with translations by Thomas Kinsella (Oxford, 1986)