Turf Cutting & Sean Nós Singing Sisters of Kilcummin, Co. Galway, Ireland 1989
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Nan, Nora and Sara Grealish reflect on their childhood and growing up in Connemara.
Nan (Áine), Nóra and Sarah Ghriallais were born and raised in Muiceanach Idir Dhá Sháile in the Connemara Gaeltacht, a region known for its song, dance and music.
The sisters are renowned singers and have won multiple singing competitions at Oireachtas na nGael, Oireachtas na Gaeilge and Corn Uí Riada. Nan in particular is famed for her distinctive singing style.
Coming from a family of thirteen children, their parents Máire Cheaitín and Pádhraic Griallais were both singers and the home was where they learned sean nós songs and how to sing them. As Nan puts it
We had the sean nós from the cradle...it just came automatically.
Like their contemporaries and generations before them, the Griallais sisters emigrated to Boston in search of work when they finished school. Nan and Sarah also spent time in England. All three returned to raise their families here in Connemara.
Their father was a boatman who brought turf to the Aran Islands and further afield. After school, the sisters worked together to harvest turf and carry it up to the lorry which would transport it to the boat. Their only brother was among the younger children of the family, so the girls grew up doing jobs on the farm and at home. As Nóra explains,
Anything that had to be done, we had to do it.
Growing up in this remote part of the west in an era when an abundance of food was not a given, Nan recalls that their father’s profession meant that his large family always had enough,
We were never hungry.
This episode of 'I Live Here' was broadcast on 21 January 1989. The producer was Anne McCabe.
'I Live Here' is a series of documentaries about well known people who have a strong attachment and commitment to their home places and how the people, personalities and physicality of their native landscapes influenced in their lives and work.
First broadcast on 21 January 1989, it consisted of twenty programmes aired over twelve months.
When I was a young boy helping my uncle herding sheep running around and climbing some halls and mountains in my part of Connemara I would often hear some older people singing Sean Nós in their homes or when they came to visit my dear Grandmothe house during the dark winter evenings, but those songs would make me feel sad and lonely, I only wanted to hear Jimi Hendricks and his Experience Thin Lizzy, Rory Gallager, Van Morrison, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chuck Berry, Louie Armstrong, Fats Domino and Horslips music on the radio on the record player. It took me a long time to better understand and appreciate the sheer brilliance and magical beauty of those old ancient songs and stories and the singers,
Hard Work & Laughter. Tea freshly made, bird song and old song
Brilliant ☘️
Lovely 😍
I really like the last song, Amhrán Mhuínse.
What a nice snapshot of a family working and singing together on a beautiful day! What beautiful voices!
I do wonder how many days of sunny weather they get in Connemara. The only time was ever there the rain was falling horizontal. It might not have been a very nice day for cutting turf, just saying.
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Sean Nós Singing Sisters of Kilcummin, Co. Galway, Ireland 1989 809pm 16.10.24 I heard myself some Lithuanian singing in such a fashion... and most European folk singing has a similar lilt...
You are correct, I once heard an old African man singing a song on a BBC 2 TV, program which was recorded during the 1950s, I swore that the old man was singing an ancient Connemara song that heard sung as a child, 20 years or so years later the man who recorded the African man singing was making a program in Connemara and he came across an old fisherman who appeared to be singing the same song. Later the BBC man compared the recordings of those 2 old men singing and found that the song was almost identical in all but words. It helped to prove how near we are connected to other people in far off lands.
Where in Co Galway is Kilcummin?
Great video and beautiful singing. Thanks for sharing this with us
Cá bhfaigheann tú na físeáin seo? / where do you get these videos?
Everyone had their haircut back then. It was mandatory
Sean Nós Singing Sisters of Kilcummin, Co. Galway, Ireland 1989 1806PM 16.10.24 ?
Cutting turf is back-breaking work...
An-deas
Jesus 😂