Truly beautiful to find this tonight. I love the revival going on in thd coubtry of the old oral tradition of Seanchaí and storytelling. Im a liberties girl from Dublin and storytelling has always been important in our family. Our culture is a wonderful & much loved poetic one , we mudt do all in our power to keep it alive.
First, I know my People's reaction would be, "Are ye daft, no one would have a hearth that huge!" I was reminded of the 1985 Michael Wood BBC documentary series "In Search Of The Trojan War." In one episode they studied if oral traditions could truly be passed down for hundreds of years. They visited the west of Ireland and, supposedly, one of the last soley Irish-speakers who was also a story-teller. He told a bit of a tale and Wood asked how he'd come to learn so many stories. He replied. The translator thought for a moment and said, "When he was young, he was greedy for stories." That has always stuck with me and I thought where else but Eire would stories be something you'd be "greedy" for?
Wow, this is a treasure, showing the importance of storytelling to pre-television and computer cultures. As late as the 1960s and early 70s when I was a boy in South Carolina, the elders would captivate the children with folk tales like ths and family stories. Ours was prehaps the last generation to enjoy this art form in our homes among family members.
What makes this story so interesting to me is watching the expression on the woman's face as Tomas is telling the story. If Flaherty had had the camera on the story teller instead of on her it wouldn't have been half as good.
I performed frequently with Danny O'Flaherty (b.1950) whose first language was Irish and who was raised on the Aran Islands and Connemara. He would never have seen this - yet his gestures and mannerisms in story telling are nearly identical to O'Diorain.
Wow, it is fascinating to find such an old piece of sound cinema, such an early film of Irish speech! It is a rare piece of European heritage and it is amazing seeing films from the 30s bringing legitimacy to repressed languages through film, such as Yiddish or Ukrainian. I hope to see more early Irish films!
Read Robert Graves White Goddess if you want to understand the origins of the storytelling traditions of Ireland and the British Isles; 14 years of training to become a junior bard
Cén oileán arbh as na daoine seo? Ní saineolaí mé ach is cosúil go n-úsáidid siad focail muimhneacha ina gcuid cainte, foirmeacha táití ar nós "déanfad" ⁊ "chuadar" ⁊c. Seans gurbh as Inis Oírr iad? Tá iarsmaí de Ghaelainn na Mumhan le clos san oileán úd, de réir ar chualag.
@@johnosullivan9141 Airiú, tá ciall leis sin mhuis! Go raibh maith agat as an bhfreagra. Bhí aithne agam ar sheanfhear ó Inis Mór tráth, Gaelainn ana-shuimiúil a bhí aige agus cúpla foirmeacha táití ina chuid cainte leis, ar nós bhíodar, beidar, tádar srl.
Truly beautiful to find this tonight.
I love the revival going on in thd coubtry of the old oral tradition of Seanchaí and storytelling.
Im a liberties girl from Dublin and storytelling has always been important in our family. Our culture is a wonderful & much loved poetic one , we mudt do all in our power to keep it alive.
First, I know my People's reaction would be, "Are ye daft, no one would have a hearth that huge!" I was reminded of the 1985 Michael Wood BBC documentary series "In Search Of The Trojan War." In one episode they studied if oral traditions could truly be passed down for hundreds of years. They visited the west of Ireland and, supposedly, one of the last soley Irish-speakers who was also a story-teller. He told a bit of a tale and Wood asked how he'd come to learn so many stories. He replied. The translator thought for a moment and said, "When he was young, he was greedy for stories." That has always stuck with me and I thought where else but Eire would stories be something you'd be "greedy" for?
Love Robert Flaherty- movies - watched them all over and over!!! Thank you for putting them out to watch.
Wow, this is a treasure, showing the importance of storytelling to pre-television and computer cultures. As late as the 1960s and early 70s when I was a boy in South Carolina, the elders would captivate the children with folk tales like ths and family stories. Ours was prehaps the last generation to enjoy this art form in our homes among family members.
What makes this story so interesting to me is watching the expression on the woman's face as Tomas is telling the story. If Flaherty had had the camera on the story teller instead of on her it wouldn't have been half as good.
Thank you for this almost unknown film by the legendary director.
I performed frequently with Danny O'Flaherty (b.1950) whose first language was Irish and who was raised on the Aran Islands and Connemara. He would never have seen this - yet his gestures and mannerisms in story telling are nearly identical to O'Diorain.
Wow, it is fascinating to find such an old piece of sound cinema, such an early film of Irish speech! It is a rare piece of European heritage and it is amazing seeing films from the 30s bringing legitimacy to repressed languages through film, such as Yiddish or Ukrainian.
I hope to see more early Irish films!
A treasure
You can tell these folks are speaking their first language, comparefmd to people who learn at school. Same software, totally different hardware.
Read Robert Graves White Goddess if you want to understand the origins of the storytelling traditions of Ireland and the British Isles; 14 years of training to become a junior bard
nach bhfuil aon leagan gan fotheidil agat? ní maith liom iad a fheiceáil -- goilleann siad ar an scéal!
Dean mar a rinne mise. Brú síos an phictúir faoí iachtar an scáláin. ;-)
Hiontach!
Cén oileán arbh as na daoine seo? Ní saineolaí mé ach is cosúil go n-úsáidid siad focail muimhneacha ina gcuid cainte, foirmeacha táití ar nós "déanfad" ⁊ "chuadar" ⁊c. Seans gurbh as Inis Oírr iad? Tá iarsmaí de Ghaelainn na Mumhan le clos san oileán úd, de réir ar chualag.
B'as Inis Mór iad, go bhfios dom...
@@johnosullivan9141 Airiú, tá ciall leis sin mhuis! Go raibh maith agat as an bhfreagra. Bhí aithne agam ar sheanfhear ó Inis Mór tráth, Gaelainn ana-shuimiúil a bhí aige agus cúpla foirmeacha táití ina chuid cainte leis, ar nós bhíodar, beidar, tádar srl.