Collecting Folk Songs in Ireland, 1973
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2021
- A Dublin man is travelling Ireland collecting songs with the aim of having them passed on to future generations.
Tommy Munnelly has always had a strong interest in traditional music. Employed by the Department of Education, his job involves finding the songs which haven’t been written down and documenting them for posterity.
For ten years now he’s been travelling to Fleadhs around the country listening to music and learning and collecting songs.
Tommy Munnelly visits Boyle in County Roscommon to discover more about the town’s musical tradition.
It’s best known for its flute players but singers and fiddlers abound as well.
Tommy describes how he goes about collecting these songs and says local pubs are a great place to meet singers.
In Boyle, Tommy meets Traveller Michael Reilly who has a wealth of previously undocumented traditional folk songs to pass on. Most of the songs Michael knows, he hears his parents sing and they have been passed on by word of mouth from generation to generation. Tommy is less concerned about the quality of the rendition of the song and more interested in the stories they tell.
Tommy has a way with the singers he talks to. He knows the people of an area and their way of life just as well as he knows their music and their songs.
Tommy Munnelly has been collecting songs out of personal interest for around ten years. Since joining the Department of Education two years ago, he has collected over two thousand songs.
The oral tradition is drying up with the advent of radio and television.
This episode of ‘Tangents’ was broadcast on 25 May 1973. The reporter is Doireann Ní Bhriain. 
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I love the way (around :50) the narrator says Tommy is "charged with the enormous task of gathering all these songs together" just as yer man lifts a creamy pint to his gob.
Ahh but its hard work visiting all those pubs for research purposes
😂
Very glad to see this video, this is my family!
The cinematography in this is incredible. Reminds me of French New Wave cinema, like Jean-Luc Godard and the likes.
This is amazing. The traveller John Reilly they mentioned was the source of a lot of songs later made famous by Planxty (The Raggle Taggle Gypsy etc.). They also did the song the man sings in this video, Lord Baker.
Well below the valley was one of his
Reilly’s most famous song, though, was The Well Below the Valley- also covered by Planxty.
His beard, mustache and haircut are back in fashion. Only took 50 years.
Was going to say, john Reilly's haircut very much in style today.
There is so much Irish folk culture in Australia. It has made itself our culture as well as the entire UK of coarse. I just love hearing the fiddle and flute in our (Aussie) old folk songs. 🇦🇺
The man playing the flute at the beginning was the late blind flute player Josie Mc Dermott from County Roscommon..I remember him well as he used to stay in my uncle's house on the odd visit to Dublin.
I'm just watching him drinking that pint of stout 😋
Very soon again after a long long time.
A different world back then.
Would like to hear and see more of Tommy's work . Is there a series of recordings of him gathering songs like this one ?
Please keep these videos coming. I love how random the subject matter is yet so specifically Irish.
Well it's a cultural thing the drinking and dancing fighting etc. a bit gypsy.
@@AnnaLVajda really? I don't think these musicians are interested in fighting.
@@AnnaLVajda Gypsys and Irish travellers are two distinct separate groups.
@@AnnaLVajda Agitator Anna stirring up the pot. Keep your insecurities and your prejudices' to yourself please.
How you find anything important in Ireland?
Answer: the pub
Many, many thanks for this and the other Irish videos. Beautiful. Much appreciated.
I never knew Zach Galifinakis was Irish or named Tommy!
I love the feeling the singer conveys, I'm so glad I'm able to watch and enjoy this videos, thank you!
Lived down southern lreland, in 1970's. Loved it. We were taken there, during the troubles, in belfast. When l was 15 years old l went back again. My sons tour to it, with their families.
Just Ireland lad no place I know called "southern Ireland"
The flute the gentleman is seen to be holding probably was made around 1868 .
It has a Barrell Head joint. I have a silver head joint made around that time that I use on my Boehm system flute sometimes.
Wow 😯
@@Tamar-sz8ox I'll be posting on Y/T in a few weeks time, myself playing the Barrell Head Foot Joint.
I'll inform you when it will be so. In the meantime, type my name into Y/T and you may finf some flute playing that might just interest you.
Best wishes,
Bob
@@bobdownes162 thanks 👍💕❤️💜
@@Tamar-sz8ox Might not be to your taste. ruclips.net/video/p6eC63wDCbc/видео.html
Incidentally, the flute head was given to me by James Galway.
The best channel on RUclips. Thanks for sharing. Getting me through lockdowns and nursing my husband back to health after his hip replacement. You’re a gift.
Wishing your husband the best possible recovery 🙏🏼❤️
@@Tamar-sz8ox thank you.
I love the history 🍀
It's a pity the government or its departments don't give a shite about Irish tradition anymore. We will never get this back again.
Tradition is carried by people not government. Loss of tradition would be the collective fault of the Irish people for turning their backs on it.
What invaluable work Tommy has done. But also, how great it is to still see and hear the wonderful Doireann Ní Bhriain, a stalwart of RTÉ at the time and since. Doireann's is the voice still announcing each Luas stop along your journey, whether An Bhó Dhearg (Red Cow) or Cé Sheoirse, (George's Quay).
Love that fella at the start, getting well and truly stuck into the Guinness(?). It look's like he's starting with half a glass, having probably got rid of the first half in one go, now he's taking care of the second half. Get it in to ya' mate!
Alcoholic.
He needs to take the pledge.
Amazing video. Can you find any Videos of Blind Mary Delaney and her brother Paddy O'Reilly? I and my family would love to see them. Thank you for posting this video and your work.
Thanks again for another great video 👍
Very informative thanks.
Great 🇮🇪☘️🕊
He was ahead of his time, he saw the decline coming
Awesome video CR you do it best.👍😎☘️
This man is a legend. Imagine having that job!!!
Excellent
Love this x
What a genuine person
Munnelly's research notes are in the Irish Folklore Commission archive in UCD
This is a great discovery, many thanks for sharing. If I am right, it's narrated by Doireann Ní Bhriain (?)😊
Brilliant, and everyone has their own head of hair.
Travellers community are a living archive
Another great post! Is the folklorist Tommy Mallory? Hard to hear his last name. Someone needs to locate his recordings. I'm fascinated by these films from the 60s and 70s. You get a glimpse of a lyrical older Ireland.
Actually its Tom Munnelly. He passed in 2007 but his massive archives are at the National Folklore Collection. www.ucd.ie/news/0709_sep/010807_munnelly.html
Tommy Munnelly
Have you got any old footage of Cork in Newmarket Crookhaven and Skibbereen. All of my mothers side came from these areas and it would be lovely looking at what it looked like and the people
A tinker singing a song ,
does anyone know where I can find videos from this time period with music, such as that in the beginning of this video, being played?
Does anyone know where the folk songs he collected are kept? Can they be accessed online ?
I think I found the collection referred to in the video in the UCD folklore collection at this link digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:31056 plenty more on the Irish Traditional Music Archive website i think
@@wes7600 Amazing, Thanks Wesley! Really appreciate it!
Did any of these people get credits or royalties? Many a man traveled the countryside all over and harvested the songs for his own. I'm not saying that is the case here but once it is known the secret is out and others can and will hop on it.
Is there an archive of Tommy's collected works anywhere?
Munnelly's research notes are in the Irish Folklore Commission archive in UCD
Great to see this fabulous documentary presented by John Lennon
🤣 Mary Lennon
Wank off
You should go on stage .
was this part of project where People were sent out all over the world with tape recorders and getting different kinds of spoken Gaelic on tape before the last speakers passed away?
That would also have been the responsibility of the Irish Folklore Commission. Séamus Ennis would have been collecting a lot from Irish speaking areas
This guy's the original Hipster.
‘Before it was cool’ you could say
@@co20ca05 when it was could
What kind of a car is he driving?
why does that guy with beard remind me of Zach Galifianakis
Strange comment to make "songs passed from father to sons" ! thats a bit sexist , Our Irish music and songs were passed through the generations through daughters and sons ! Women were singers writers Musicians and dancers
True
It’s not strange at all it’s a nice sentiment and should be taken in the grace it was said. Nobody would be offended by it because it would be universally understood.
Is yer man blitzed driving?
He wasn't joking when he said he wasn't a great singer
Vintage Ron Swanson Irish Hipster vibes.
Original Irish music is so bad it hurts my ears tbh
@@lancejohnson127 the scots are even less known for their huge input over the centuries. including appalacian.
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you're watching the wrong youtube videos. Don't waste your life away .