{"id":13213,"date":"2017-04-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/?p=13213"},"modified":"2024-04-08T01:27:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T01:27:26","slug":"scribhinni-an-phiarsaigh-re-run-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/ga\/scribhinni-an-phiarsaigh-re-run-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Scribhinni an Phiarsaigh&#8230;.. re-run&#8230;. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold;font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-size:28pt\">T\u00fa<\/span><span style=\"font-size:28pt\">s Tuile<\/span><span style=\"font-size:28pt\">&#8230;..1<\/span><\/h1><p style=\"margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.2;font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">Peadar Bair\u00e9ad<\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.2;font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"height:1em\"><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.2;font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">(<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><em>This week I take a second look at a piec<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><em>e I wrote here some years ago.)<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p><h1 style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold;font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-size:18pt\">Cuimhn\u00ed ag filleadh<\/span><\/h1><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt;margin-left:9pt;margin-right:-7.7pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">Nuair a smaoin\u00edm anois ar an bPiarsach, tagann chugam isteach ar thonn na cuimhne, an l\u00e1 \u00fad fad\u00f3,<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> i dtriochaid\u00ed na haoise seo caite,<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> nuair a d\u2019inis an M\u00e1istir<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> \u00d3 Cr\u00f3in\u00edn<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">, i Scoil N\u00e1isi\u00fanta na Cille M\u00f3ire<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">, Iorra<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">s, sc\u00e9al an Phiarsaigh d\u00fainn. Tagann chugam freisin, an grianghraf \u00fad, a l\u00e9irigh cl\u00f3 leicinn an Phiarsaigh, picti\u00far, d\u00e1r linne, a l\u00e9irigh s\u00e9imhe, mac\u00e1ntacht, agus<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> fear\u00falacht.  Sea, agus <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">tugaim chun cuimhne freisin,<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> na huaigheanna n\u00e9ata, rangaithe, \u00fad, i gCnoc an Arbhair, gona gcrainn arda l\u00e1sacha, gona leacht ard, snoite, clochach.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> Sea, ba nao<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">imh ar thalamh d\u00fainne laochra<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> an \u00c9ir\u00ed Amach.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18pt\">That  Terrible  B<\/span><span style=\"font-size:18pt\">eauty!<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">Ach t<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">har aon rud eile, tagann l\u00ednte<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">\u00fad <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">an Yeatsaigh chugam,<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> agus \u00e9 ag smaoineamh ar<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> an bPiarsach c<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">\u00e9anna sin.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt;margin-left:144pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">\u201cThis man kept a school<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt;margin-left:144pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">And rode our winged horse..\u201d<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">Agus ar\u00eds&#8230;<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt;margin-left:144pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">I write it out in a verse<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt;margin-left:144pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">McDonagh and McBride<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt;margin-left:144pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">And Connolly and Pearse<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt;margin-left:144pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">Now and in time to be<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt;margin-left:144pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">Wherever the Green is worn<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt;margin-left:144pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">Are changed, changed utterly<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt;margin-left:144pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">A terrible beauty is born\u201d<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"height:1em\"><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;font-size:18pt\">An  Gearrsc\u00e9ala\u00ed<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">Ach n\u00ed chuige sin at\u00e1 m\u00e9, an iarraidh seo, n\u00f3 is \u00e9 at\u00e1 ag d\u00e9anamh tin<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">nis dom sa ph\u00ed<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">osa seo, n\u00f3 <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">sc\u00e9al amh\u00e1in, agus altanna, leis<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> an <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">bPhiarsach<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">, mar b\u00edodh go raibh scileanna aige i mbun fil\u00edochta agus i mbun dr\u00e1ma\u00edochta, agus fi\u00fa i mbun \u00f3r\u00e1id\u00edochta, is \u00e9 mo thuairim fh\u00e9in, n\u00f3 gur mar ghearrsc\u00e9ala\u00ed ba mh\u00f3 a bhain s\u00e9 cl\u00fa agus c\u00e1il amach d\u00f3 fh\u00e9in.  Chuaigh s\u00e9 i mbun pinn agus \u00e9 an-\u00f3g, agus lean den n\u00f3s sin thar na blianta<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> fada<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">.  Sa bhliain 1902, agus \u00e9 tr\u00ed bliana is fiche, thosaigh s\u00e9 ag scr\u00edobh altanna agus cuntais chuig an Claidheamh Solais.  Cur s\u00edos ar a imeachta\u00ed agus ar a eachtra\u00ed i gConamara, ba mh\u00f3 a bh\u00edodh idir cham\u00e1in aige sna p\u00edosa\u00ed si<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">n.  Ba chara leis an eagarth\u00f3ir<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> Eoin \u00d3 Neachtain \u00e9, agus d\u2019fhoils\u00edodh seisean chuile sh\u00f3rt uaidh.  Ag cur s\u00edos ar aiste acu sin, \u201cL\u00e1 F\u00e1\u2019n Tuaith\u201d d\u00fairt Ruth Dudley Edwards, ina Beathaisn\u00e9is scol\u00e1rtha, <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">dea-thaighithe, <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">faoin bPiarsach&#8230;..<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt;margin-left:72pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">\u201cIt smacked more of the schoolboy essay than of the serious literary effort of an adult.  But as with oratory, so with writing.  Pearse had to learn his craft, he was only beginning.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18pt\">Ag scaipeadh an sc\u00e9il<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">\u201cFair enough\u201d, ad\u00e9arfadh duine, b\u2019fh\u00e9idir, ach ag an am gc\u00e9anna, chaithfeadh duine smaoineamh, nach raibh an oiread sin eiseaml\u00e1ir\u00ed ag an bPiarsach, le bheith ag d\u00e9anamh aithrise orthu, an t-am sin.  I nd\u00e1ir\u00edre, is d\u00f3cha go bhf\u00e9adf\u00e1 a r\u00e1, go raibh s\u00e9 ag iarraidh litr\u00edocht na Gaeilge a chur in oiri\u00faint don r\u00e9 inar mhair s\u00e9.  Rinne s\u00e9 a dh\u00edcheall ar roinnt scr\u00edbhneoir\u00ed Gaeilge a spreagadh, le gearrsc\u00e9alta nua-aoiseacha a scr\u00edobh i nGaeilge, ach ba bheag aird a tugadh air, agus i ndeireadh na d\u00e1la, tuigeadh d\u00f3, nach raibh an dara rogha aige<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> ach rogha an chirc\u00edn rua<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> fh\u00e9in<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">, s\u00e9 sin<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> tabhairt faoin ngn\u00f3 \u00e9 fh\u00e9in!<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">  Sa bhliain 1905, d\u2019\u00e9irigh <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">leis an gearrsc\u00e9al \u201cPoll an Ph\u00edobaire\u201d a chur de, b\u00edodh n\u00e1r chuir s\u00e9 a ainm fh\u00e9in leis an sc\u00e9al sin, ach bhain \u00fas\u00e1id as, Colm \u00d3 Conaire, mar ainm cleite. <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">Sa ch\u00e9<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">ad ph\u00edosa eile, an tseachtain seo chugainn, feicfidh muid n\u00e1r r\u00f3-chliste an t-ainm a bhaist s\u00e9 ar an sc\u00e9al c\u00e9anna sin<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">, n\u00f3 lig an tAth. Ua<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> Duinn\u00edn air, gur bhain s\u00e9 ciall contr\u00e1ilte as an teideal c\u00e9anna sin<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">, agus \u00e9 ag ligint air go mba theideal gh\u00e1irsi\u00fail \u00e9<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">, le ceap magaidh a dh\u00e9anamh den \u00fadar \u00f3g!<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"> <\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"height:1em\"><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><em>Ar lean\u00fa<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><em>int an tseachtain seo chugainn<\/em><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"height:1em\"><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;padding-top:0;margin-bottom:0pt;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.8;font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"height:1em\"><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00fas Tuile&#8230;..1 Peadar Bair\u00e9ad . (This week I take a second look at a piece I wrote here some years ago.) Cuimhn\u00ed ag filleadh Nuair a smaoin\u00edm anois ar an bPiarsach, tagann chugam isteach ar thonn na cuimhne, an l\u00e1 \u00fad fad\u00f3, i dtriochaid\u00ed na haoise seo caite, nuair a d\u2019inis an M\u00e1istir \u00d3 Cr\u00f3in\u00edn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gan-chatagoir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13214,"href":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions\/13214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mickgb.com\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}