A’s gan cailín óg ’san áit sin nár ṫuit
alig i ngráḋ leis,
Agus cuṁa ṁór a ṁáṫraċ ní ḟágḃann a
croiḋe.
III.
’Sé cúl duḃ Uaiġe, an cúl duḃ gan
suḃailce,—
Naċ fluiċ agus naċ fuar mo leabaiḋ
luiḋe!
A Néill ḃáin Ui Ṗártaiġ, naċ clúiteaċ
liom mar fágḃaḋ ṫú,
Agus campal mór báid aca le do ṫaoiḃ!
Do ṫáinig an squall agus ṫiontuiġ sé an
bád,
Agus cluinfiḋe i nÁrainn ar gcaoine [’s
ar gcaoi];
Dá mbeiṫ Coirre ar an mbád sin, nó
Donnċaḋ mo ḋearḃráṫair,
Ċar ḃaoġal dúinn an lá sin naċ dtiuc-
faḋ sinn i dtír.
IV.
Is iomḋa lasta prátaiḋe ṫug mise ’s mo
ḋearḃráṫair
Ó Ċonnaċta’ ’s ó Ṁálainn ar an ḟairrge
ḃí dian;
Contaḃairt ní ḃfuairmuid go teaċt dúinn
go cúl Uaiġe—
Mo ċreaċ agus mo ḃrón go dtáinig muid
riaṁ!
Ḃí muid ar n-oċtar d’ ḟearaiḃ leice
láidire;
Monuar! ḃí a lán againn ar ḟír-ḃeagán
scill;
Mar ndán de sinn tarrṫáil aċt aon ḟear
aṁáin againn
D’ innseoċaḋ d’ár gcáirde cad é d’éiriġ
dínn!
Gluais.
Peadar Breaṫnaċ, do ḃí in-a ṫáilliúir i mBaile na Mór, i gCondae Dhúin na nGall, tuairim a’s leaṫ-ċeud bliaḋan ó ṡoin, ’sé sin uġdar an aḃráin ḃreaġ so. Is ó Ṡaiḋḃ Ní Ġallċoḃair i mBraonaċ i nGleann na Suiliġe, fuaras an t-aḃrán le fear a sgríoḃṫa.
NOTES.
| Stanza | 1.—Uaiġe, an island off the Donegal coast. Muid, properly speaking an inflectional ending inseparable from the verb, is used very commonly instead of sinn. Buiġeallaċ = Boyle, one named O’Buiġill. Loċ an Iuḃra, Loughanure, the lake of the yew, near Gweedore. Bhrosluiġ = ḃrosduiġ. Pluċaḋ = foam. Cáṫaḋ = spray, from cáiṫ = chaff. Cóir, a fair wind. Na sliaḃ is na mbeann in the MS., making no assonance.
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| „ | 2.—Cha, ċan, Ulster equivalent of ní = not; Old Irish noċa, noċon. Huile, short for gaċ uile. Alig = uile. The two forms, huile or ’ċ uile and alig, also prevail in Connaught. Máṫraċ = máṫar.
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| „ | 3.—Clúiṫeaċ = famous, much talked of; hence, much lamented, sad. Campal, a boat’s company. Arainn, North Arran, off Donegal. Instead of ’s ar gcaoi, the MS. has ar gcaoine ann. Beiṫ, biaḋ, and beiḋeaḋ are all forms of the conditional 3rd. sing. Coirre = Curry? Char =níor.
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| „ | 4.—lasta =cargo. Málainn = Malin Head. Go teaċt dúinn is go dtáinic muid in the MS. leice—compare Gaelic Journal, vol, iv., No. 34 (1890), p. 18, note on dá leoṁan ligṫe líoṁṫa lánċalma; “ligṫe, in Waterford liciṫe, applied to a man, tall, pliant.” O’Reilly gives leic = force, strength. Scill is the English skill. Mar ndán = muna raiḃ i ndán (?), if it were not possible. Some of the readers of the G.J. may suggest a better reading or explanation.
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Flann Fionn Fíona.
TRANSLATION.
1. On Friday morning we were wakened up (lit., sitting), and my heart within refused it, going into it (the business); it is Boyle, of Loughanure, that incited us to go; we made the journey, and not without retribution it went with us. We took to the oars; but it was not clear to us (i.e., we did not know how) to make steering; there was foam and spray rising on us from behind. If there had been a knife in our pockets that would cut the ropes, the wind would have put us under the shelter of the mountains.
2. Patrick Ban O’Harley, no wonder that you were heartbroken about your fine, handsome son, whose like was not in the country; it was not want of food or dainty that brought your son into that boat. It is his house that was full of every kind of food. There was meal, and there were potatoes, there was barley, and there was grain in it; fish hung on high, of which there was not the like in the land; and not a young girl in that place that did not fall in love with him; and his mother’s great grief, it does not leave her heart.
3. It is the Black Back of Owey, the Black Back without goodness—how damp and how cold is my bed of rest! Oh, Neill Ban O’Partey, is it not sad or me how you were left, with a great boat’s crew of them by your side! The squall came and overturned the boat, and our crying and lamenting might have been heard in Arran. If Curry had been in that boat, or Donogh my brother, it was no danger for us that day that we should not come to land.
4. Many a cargo of potatoes I and my brother brought from Connaught, and from Malin, on the sea that was
