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IRELAND• Quick review

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IRELAND• Introductions

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IRELANDCourse procedures (more later)• Syllabus• Textbooks• Blackboard content delivery• Assessments (exams)• Projects• Performance projects: “the party piece”

Overall course content & intentions: see syllabus

The trip:• Itinerary• Funding• intent

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An island in Europe

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• Ireland as 1. part of “Atlantic Celtic culture”2. “edge of the known world”3. “mythological site”4. God’s teacup5. topography, geography, climate,

weather patterns, w/ resulting agriculture and rural economy

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Ireland• Yeats’s “gyres”

The theory of history articulated in A Vision centers on a diagram composed of two conic helixes ("gyres"), one situated inside the

other, so that the widest part of one cone occupies the same plane as the tip of the other cone, and vice versa. Yeats claimed

that this image captured contrary motions inherent within the process of history, and he divided each gyre into different regions

that represented particular kinds of historical periods (and could also represent the psychological phases of an individual's

development).

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More colloquially: the idea that experience, journeys, and/or time move not in a straight line, but in spirals (inward or outward). Both the history of Ireland, and our journey this semester, will

follow this kind of spiral pattern.

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Opening stanza of Yeats’s poem The Second Coming (1919)written in the wake of the Easter 1916 Rebellion, which he had

supported but whose aftermath horrified him.

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WB Yeats - The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand...

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Ireland

Newgrange; 360-degree view inside

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The Triskelion at Newgrange

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The Triskelion at Newgrange 15The Triskelion at Newgrange

IrelandWhat is the Spiral Journey? Key themes:

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• Yeats’s “gyres”• Story, accent and culture• History carried in stories, songs, and tunes—especially in exile• Topography, climate, culture, language, and music• Folklore as intentional, sophisticated, and wise

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What is the Spiral Journey? Key themes:

Ireland• Reading from Carson’s Last Night’s Fun, “Last Night’s Fun”

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Portrush, County Antrim 18

Ireland The Spiral Journey

• Reading from Carson’s Last Night’s Fun, “Last Night’s Fun”

“Irish fry” (fried breakfast) 19

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• Reading from Carson’s Last Night’s Fun, “Last Night’s Fun”

The Harbour Bar, Portrush 20

Listen to these tracks with Carson's chapter "Last Night's Fun" in front of you

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Cooley with Des Mulkere (banjo) and Jack Cooley (bodhran) (1973)

The Wise Maid/Last Night's Fun/Daniel O'Connell's/The Boys of the Lough/Miss Monaghan

Cooley speaks at:

5:50-6:40

Notice his vocal quality. Ask yourself why

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Cooley with Joe Leary and Bridie Lafferty (1963)

The Humours of Tulla/The Skylark/Roaring Mary

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Cooley with a Chicago ceili band (1962)

The Ships are Sailing

Girl speaks at:0:09

“Who was he? Who was she? And did he ever dance again?”

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Cooley with Des Mulkhere (banjo) (1972)

The Sailor on the Rock

Tony MacMahon: “Listen between the notes for the great heart that was in this man’s music.”

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Cooley, Des Mulkere, Jack Cooley: Nov 29 1973Cooley died Dec 21 1973 26

IRELANDNew Material

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IrelandReadings Discussion for next time:

• Preface and Chapter 1 “Crossing Drumbargy Brae” in Glassie

• “Boil the Breakfast Early” and “Hurry the Jug” in Carson

• Introduction and “Music in Early and Medieval Ireland” (to p24) in O hAllmhurain

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Open the DQ’s for the above from the “Discussions” tab on Blackboard

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The 4 Dialects Dia dhuit; Dia is muire dhuit

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• Yeats’s “gyres”• Story, accent and culture• History carried in stories, songs, and tunes—especially in exile• Topography, climate, culture, language, and music• Folklore as intentional, sophisticated, and wise• Letting the music and culture teach us the history• Understanding the “what” of the music helps us understand the “why” of

the people• Interplay of artistic content context• Old, new, shifting, and created contexts• Cycles of music and movement (of the body, of objects, of the seasons)• Lore, patterns, memorization, mnemonics, the triads• Inward, outward, and green spirituality• Moving from “outside” closer to “inside”; from observer to participant• Culture’s reciprocity, fragility, and resilience (see Youtube link to TV ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMwoexR1evo)

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What is the Spiral Journey? Key themes:

IrelandIn a given cultural context, where does music happen? What (and who) make(s) it happen? What does it DO?

• Video from Gypsies Sing Long Ballads (Scotland)

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IrelandÓró sé do bheatha 'bhaile (Jacobite 1840s

version)

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(Chorus)Óró, sé do bheatha abhaile,

B'fhearr liom tú ná céad bó bhainne,Óró, sé do bheatha abhaile

Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh.

A Shéarlais Óig[1], a mhic Rí Shéamais[2]

'Sé mo mhór-chreach do thriall as ÉirinnGan tuinnte bróig' ort, stoca nó leinidh

Ach do chascairt leis na Gallaibh

'Sé mo léan géar nach bhfeicimMur mbéinn beo 'na dhiaidh ach seachtain

Séarlas Óg is míle gaiscidheachAg fógairt fáin ar Ghallaibh

Tá Séarlas Óg ag traill thar sáileBéidh siad leisean, Franncaigh is Spáinnigh

Óglaigh armtha leis mar gharda'S bainfidh siad rinnce as éiricigh!

(Chorus)Oh-ro You're welcome home,I'd rather you to a hundred milking cows,Oh-ro You're welcome home...Now that summer's coming!

Young Charles, son of King JamesIt's a great distress – your exile from IrelandWithout thread of shoe on you, socks or shirtOverthrown by the foreigners

Alas that I do not seeIf I were alive afterwords only for a weekYoung Charles and one thousand warriorsBanishing all the foreigners

Young Charles is coming over the seaThey will be with him, French and SpanishArmed Volunteers with him as a guardAnd they'll make the heretics dance!

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IrelandÓró sé do bheatha 'bhaile (Padraig Pearse

1916 version)

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(Chorus)Oró, sé do bheatha abhaile,

Óró, sé do bheatha abhaile,[3]Óró, sé do bheatha abhaile

Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh.

'Sé do bheatha, a bhean ba léanmhar,Do b' é ár gcreach tú bheith i ngéibheann,

Do dhúiche bhreá i seilbh méirleach,Is tú díolta leis na Gallaibh.

Tá Gráinne Mhaol ag teacht thar sáile,Óglaigh armtha léi mar gharda,

Gaeil iad féin is ní Gaill[4] ná Spáinnigh,Is cuirfidh siad ruaig ar Ghallaibh.

A bhuí le Rí na bhFeart go bhfeiceam,Mura mbeam beo ina dhiaidh ach seachtain,

Gráinne Mhaol agus míle gaiscíoch,Ag fógairt fáin ar Ghallaibh.

(Chorus)Oh-ro You're welcome home,Oh-ro You're welcome home,Oh-ro You're welcome home...Now that summer's coming!

Welcome oh woman who was so afflicted,It was our ruin that you were in bondage,Our fine land in the possession of thieves...And you sold to the foreigners!

Gráinne O'Malley[5] is coming over the sea,Armed warriors along with her as her guard,They are Irishmen, not foreigners nor Spanish...And they will rout the foreigners!

May it please the King of Miracles that I might see,Although we may live for a week once after,Gráinne Mhaol and a thousand warriors...Dispersing the foreigners!

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IrelandIn a given cultural context, where does music happen? What (and who) make(s) it happen? What does it DO?

• Video of Darach O Cahainn singing sean-nos (Ireland)

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IrelandSean-nos: Darach O Cathain sings

Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile

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Ireland• Reading from Carson’s Last Night’s Fun, “Hurry the Jug”

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