My Grandfather Was Taken By The Fairies (Mammy and Ellen)
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2016
- My Grandfather was taken by the Fairies is the title of a six part recording that centres on Fortune's mother, along with six different members of his family, as they relate superstitious accounts concerning other family members and neighbours.
These are the stories which Fortune grew up with as a child and involve accounts of his own family members and neighbours in the coastal village of Ballygarrett on the east coast of Wexford. The village is part of larger Gaelic stronghold called The Macamore's which ran from an area called 'The Yella Lands' below Kilmuckridge right up to 'The Arklow Rock' on the Wexford/Wicklow border.
The stories in this collection are from the immediate vicinity of the Ballygarrett and Kilmuckridge area and are as much private beliefs and superstitions as they are public.
The deliberate recording of his mother re-telling the same stories with his sisters and nieces, highlights how the stories and the oral culture in which they come from, is highly structured in many regards but yet contains an element of fluidity which is brought by the personality of the teller.
Fortune regards the stories as being related to traditional tunes which have been passed on orally. Many of the stories will have the same repeated lines, the same meter, rising and falling, the same warnings and consequences.
Each of the recordings were recorded around his mother’s kitchen table between October 2005 and August 2006. In each recording the camera moves clockwise around the table capturing not only the imaginary world of the stories but also the physical space of the small kitchen.
Although intangible, these stories are used to map out a physical world around the family household.
She is a great storyteller. This reminds me of sitting at the kitchen table with my aunties but they just gossiped.
I could listen all day 💚
This video Just popped up in my feed and I'm really enjoying it. The lady telling the stories sounds so much like some of the people here that I had to check. I'm from Newfoundland and Labrador and quite a few people that settled here were from Wexford and Waterford. I think Talamh an Eisc might be what they call the island of Newfoundland.
Ah brilliant 👍
My idea of Ireland is a dark pub, a bright fireplace, plenty of pints and a great story teller. Ghost stories a plus!
The shire👍
Absolutely LOVE these stories from her, thank you SO much! Also, turn on the generated Closed Caption if you want one endlessly bad translation after another, I was in tears!😅😅😅
blame it on the fairies. Damn fairies. Don't mess with the fairy folk.
Young one is off her head on coke 😅
Nah I doubt that, probably getting over a cold, they don’t have the money for coke at 11am