FTX-421 - MAN OF
ARAN
PAT MULLEN - storyteller
with Maggie & Sean DIRRANE
| Pat MULLEN, father of actress, Barbara Mullen, and
an outstanding local storyteller, tells about life on the rocky Aran islands
off the Connemara coast - and we meet Maggie DIRRANE, the star of Robert
Flaherty's film, 'Man of Aran' - recorded by Maud Karpeles & Sidney
Robertson Cowell in 1955 and 1962 |
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(Photo by George Pickow)
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"These 3 rocks in the ocean" - sea-weed & hard work to
make land for family, knitting sweaters, his father, porpoise fishing, carting
soil, Dublin landlords, emigration, mother, making their clothes - "the hookers"
& curragh races, storytelling, poteen, funerals & weddings, sports,
superstitions, death - CAOINEADH NA MARBH (Keening) - Pat tells 4 stories -
Mouth-music, songs and step-dancing by Sean Dirrane and his Auntie Maggie -
SWEET WILLIAM (in English) - S'ORO MHILE GRADH - AMHRAN AN TEI (Song of the
tea) - TUIRNIN LOIN (Flax-spinning song) - SEOTHIN SEO (Milking croon)
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