Danny

Danny Maidhcí Ó Súilleabháin


Rugadh agus tógadh Danny Maidhcí Ó Súilleabháin ar Chúil Aodha.  A' clann ceolmhar fileata ab é agus suim aige riamh sna h-amhráin. Chuaigh sé chun scoile ar Bhárr d'Uinse agus taréís príntíseachtaí éagsúil le miotaloireacht, innealtóireacht agus mar sin de bhí sé taréis tanmall doc haitheamh ag obair i ngaráiste Uí Shíocháin, i Monarcain taighde Talcomo, le William O BRien agus a leithéid.  Le linn na seascadaí deirneacha is seachtoidí luath, bhí sé i mBaile Atha Cliath agus is ann a bhunaigh sé féin, Liam Weldon agus Frank Hart cliub amhránaíochta.   Ball de Chór Chúil Aodha ó lár na seascadaí i leith, is crann taca é do chultúr Mhúscraighe agus stór mór chuid amhráin aige.


 


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Amhrain le Danny Maidhcí



Local songs from Múscraí


Sleeve Notes


Taobh 1



  1. Cois a' Ghaorthaigh

  2. An Turas go h-Iona (Danny Maidhcí Ó Suileabháin)


Sile Ní Ríordáin faoi nfdearadh é. Agus sinn ag filleadh abhaile ar an t-eitealán dubhairt sí “Caithfigh tú amhrán do scríobh mar gheall ar an turas.” Do scríobhas é, chaitheas i leataoibh é agus seo dhíbh é.



  1. An Gandal (George Curtin)


D’fhoghluimíos é se ar Scoil Bharr d’ Inse fadó fadó.



  1. Carraig Aonair


Fuaireas an t-amharán seo ó mo dhearatháir Diarmuidín –Beannacht Dé leis.



  1. Achuinní Scoláire (Seán Eoghan Ó Suilleabháin)


Do scríobh Seán Eoghain Ó Suilleabháin an t-amhrarán seo dom dhearatháir Diarmuidín chun go gcannfadh sé don cigire é nuair a bhí Diarmuidín a ceathar nó cúig do bhliannaibh d’aois.



  1. Sean an Capal (Tadhg na Tuinne)


Fuaireas é seo ó Mick Pats Healy Oiche leadaránach thuas i mBarr an Chumadh.



  1. Glanlea (Micky & Patsy Cronin)


Glan lea is the ancient name of the reotes glen that stretches from Top of Coom on Cork and Kerry border down as far as Moreley’s Bridge. The song was composed by two mountainy famer brothers who never travelled too far from their own doorstep. A neighbour of theirs gave years travelling the world and it was from his stories which they put into song that Glanlea emerged. I heard Seán Ó Riada say it was the greatest song ever composed. It told the lifestory, it had hostiry, geography, beautiful air, excellent poetry and praise of their own place. Danny Kelleher of Gortlahard kept this song alive.



  1. Where the Pineapples Grow (Jim Kelly)


Jim Kelly used to sing this song in Donoghue’s Bar of Merion Row in the early 1970’s. They are not the ‘edible’ pineapples. You pull their pin, throw and they go bang.



  1. John Twiss


This song was sung around here always as far back as I can remember. The interest being that he was tried at Cork Assizes at the same time as my granduncle, Micky Welsh of Béal Átha an Ghaorthaigh. Micky got five years jail and John Twiss the death penalty.



  1. An Bonán Buí


Tomás Mac Donagh a aistrigh é seo ó amhrán Cathal Buí Mac Giollaghunna. Thomas Mac Donagh translated this song from Cathal Buí Mac GiolaGhunna’s original An Bonán Buí.   Thomas was one of the 1916 Proclamation signatories.



  1. An Shabby Genteel


I heard this song from Concubhair (Nelus) Ó Muirithe of Doire an Chuilinn who is the great grandfather of the present great singer Nell Ní Chróinín.



  1. Rise Up Paddy Buckley (File áitiúil)


The only person I ever heard singing these two siongs was Seán Murry Cnoc Buí whio was in the distilling business himself. I am pretty sure they are his compostions even though he bnevfer admitted it to me. Poitín makers can be notoriusly secretive about “things”.



  1. Distiller’s Regret (File áitiúil)

  2. Sean South From Garryowen


I picked up this song on late nights in pubs and smokey taverns in West Clare, from good buddy Mick Flynn of Milltown Malbay.



  1. Ten Minutes too Late


My father Maidhcí taped this sog on an old reel to reel tape machine in the mid 1960’s from Domhnal Ó Muláin, composer of the Poc ar Buille



  1. The Bold Tipperary Boy


I got this song from the late Larry White of Cork.



  1. The Braes of Balquidder


This song I picked up from the singing of Elizabeth Cronin.



  1. The Cappabui Murder


This is another song I picked up from the singing of Elizabeth Cronin.



  1. James Connolly   (Patrick Galvin)


I got this song from Liam Weldon and thought he had composed it until years later I learnt that it was the great Cork poet Patrick Galvin was the author


Taobh 2



  1. About a Row


Another song picked from my fathers taping of Domhal Ó Muláin in the mid 1916’s.



  1. Budoram's Ball   (Johnny Nora Aodha)


Johnny was a next door neighbor of the Cronin Brothers who composed Glanlea. He was also an Ó Tuama. He composed many other songs such as Marysheen went to Bonán, The Tailor Bán and so on.



  1. Connie's Big Campaign (Johnny Nora Aodha)


Johnny’s neighbours were going to Connie’s wedding and they asked Johnny to ‘mind the house’. So that he would not be lonely, they left him a bottle of poitín. A neighbour came by. They had a dram. They had another. The bottle as drained out. In a fit of bravado, they decided t go to the wedding themselves. But to get there on foot, they had to cross over the hostile moutainy area that lies between Glanlea in the South and Cluan Caoin in the North. Between fog, rain and moonshine, they lost their bearings and found themselves in a place called Gleann - wrong town-land, wrong parish, wrong county. And that is how the song came to be.



  1. Mick Sullivan's Clock (George Curtain)


Another Twomey, this time from Na h-Ulláin in Baile Mhuirne. Whatever repair that was finally imposed on the clock must have been a good one as that clock is still hammering away, hanging up on the wall in the O Sullivan Homestead in Daingean na Silleach.



  1. The Man coming Home from Pretoria   (George Curtin)


I picked this song up from Danny Willy Oh and from An Capal Iarainn as we called Donncaha Mac Suibhne. George Curtin was left a legacy but he had to go to England to pick it up. He proceeded to drink the legacy, ran out of cash and had to work his passage home. He had to make up some excuse when he came home so he told them he had enlisted in the British Army and had been sent out to the Boer War in Pretoria.



  1. Jehr Foley's Boat   (George Curtain)


Otter pelts were five bob each at this time and this song arose from his chasing of the “makings of a couple of pints” and he falling into the water. The boat was a galvanized bath they had for washing cloths and that floated away in the current and took three weeks to find. He was getting a little “domestic agro” for having lost the bath.



  1. The ESB (Danny Sullivan, Na Cipeacha)


My uncle Danny worked in the ESB scheme here in 1959. He composed this song about his workmates and place.


Danny Tom Lehane lived with his brother and sister in Na Cipeacha in Baile Mhuirne. They were gifted poets. He was a Spailpibn Fánach working and traveling the sorrounding areas of Muscraí, Sliabh Luachra and west as far as Kilgarvan. The least event or happening could trigger him into verse. I can remember standing on the road, talking to him, when a neighbor passed by on a bike. Straight away he launched into song and before your man was out of sight, he had a couple of verses made about him. The verses might not always be complimentary. But his songs were always in demand as they were always topical and with the spice of being local.



  1. Battle of the Booster Station (Danny Tom)

  2. Fat Dan's Riffle (Danny Tom)


Dan was a fine grámhar easy going neighbour of Danny Tom’s and they sued to be always pocking fun at each other.



  1. Frank Kelly's Tree   (Danny Tom)

  2. John Gilpin's Top Coat (Danny Tom)

  3. Kruger's Old Mare (Danny Tom)

  4. Jack Murphy   (Danny Tom)

  5. The Butcher Danny Tom (Danny Tom)

  6. The Creamery by John C (Danny Tom)

  7. The Drunken Drovers (Danny Tom)

  8. The Sailor's Station (Danny Tom)

  9. The Seige of Boney's Lane   (Danny Tom)

  10. The Sow That They Failed to Kill (Danny Tom)


Nóta deirigh/ final word:


Do bhí ráiteas ag Peáití Tadhg Pheig fadó. Deireadh sé “Buail do Phuc is liúigh”. For those that don’t iunderstand, there is no obscentinty invlived. It ,eans “Strike your Blow and Shout” – in other words “Make Your Statement”. Or in the words of another local wise man, Paddy Mick –“Do the Best You can with the fittings you have.”


Táim buíoch dóibh san uilig a thug amhrán dom. Tá an cuid is mó acu siúd anois faoi’n gcré. Táim buíoch dom bhean Joan agus mo chlann as ucht a gcuid tacaíochta lem’ shoaghal. Gurab fad buan ár Muintir is a sliocht ar shleasaibh cnoc in Iarthar Mhúscraighe.


Danny Maidhcí.


Rugadh agus tógadh Danny Maidhcí Ó Suilleabháin ar Chúil Aodha. Danny Maidhcí Dan Jehr Eoin is ainm do imeasc a Muintir fhéin agus teaspáinean sé sin an cumhacht agus meas atá ag a phobal dhúchasach agus a gcultúr, ar a síol is a n’oidhreacht, síneann sé siar na glúnnta fada. A clan eiseachtúil é. De Mhuintir Healy Barr na Stuaice a mháthair. Tá na Muintir Mhaidhcí uilig iontach chun amhránaíochta agus seannachais. Tá cuimhne míorúlthach ag Danny agus níl ansa ach roinnt beag dá amhráin.   Tá sé taréis aire ar leith a thabhairt do amhráin béarla a cumadh go háitiúil el céád bliain anuas. Seo traidisiún láidir a bhí riamh sa cheantar a shíneann siar chun na cúirteanna filíochta ceire chead bliain ó shoin agus a mhaireann sa Dámhscoil fós inniu. Ach is beag áird a tugadh ar na h-amhráin béárla seachas na cinn Gaoluinne. Níor bailíodh iad agus iad ag imeacht as cuimhne na ndaoine. Sid é an chúis go bhfuil Danny do thaifead anois – cuid acu ar aon chumadh. Imeasc na h-úghdair is mó cáil is geann sa dúthaigh, bhí calkn na Cornies nó Muintir Liatháin. Deirtí gurb í an driofúr Lena an té ab fhearr acu. Tá 10 amhrán le Danny Tom ansa. Roimis siúd bhí George Curtin nó Michéal Ó Tuama. É féin a bhaist an t-ainm George Curtin ar féin. Bhí sé siúd ag cumadóíreacht i ngaoluinn agus a béarla agus an t-amhrán macarónach aige leis. Tá ladhar amhrán le siúd ansa leis. I gcaitheamh a shaoghail, tá Danny taréis mórán amhráin a phiocadh suas sa bhaile agus in áiteannaibh eile ar fuaid na tire. Amhráin neamhchoitiannta agus nách raibh cointiannta ag an am athosnaigh Danny dá rá. Táid ansa leis agus a bhfoinse luaite mar is ceart ionas gur féídir leo maireachtaint leo igcomhnaí trí athrá Danny.


Ní bhíon leisce ar Danny riamh amhrán do rá agus é fial agus flathúil lena chuimne agus a fomhar amhráin is seanachas. Is comhluadar ionatch é. Tá sé ina bhall de Chor Chúil Aodha ó lár na Seascadaí. Gheibhigh Danny go Baile Atha Cliath i 1967 ar mhaithe le príntíseacht t-athú si innealtóireachta. Bhí monarcan nua taighde agus forbairt le tógaint ar Chúil AOdha. Faid a bhí sé i mBaile Átha Cliath, chuir sé aithne ar Liam Weldon agus Frank Heart agus bhunaíodar club amhránaíóchta a bhíodh ag cruinniú ar Shráid XXX. Ar fileadh go Cuil Aodha dho, lean sé leis ag cruinniú is ag bailiú amhráin. Is ceann de phrimhléidí mo shoaghail aithne do bheith agam ar Danny agus an sult, suain is suairceas atá bainte agam as a chomhluadar. Gurab fada buan é.


Danny Maidcí Ó Suilleabháin was born and reared in Cúil Aodha. To those of his community he is known as Danny Maidhcí Dan Jehr Eoin which shows the importance and value that his people and culture attach to continuation of tradition, stretching back many generations. He is of an exceptional family. His mother was a Healy from Barr na Stuaice. The Maidhcí’s were all wonderful singers and custodians of the tradition. Danny posses a great phenomenal memory and here are but a selection from his repertoire. He has given particular attention here to local songs in English that have been composed in the last hundred years.. These song are also part of our tradition in this area that stretches back to the Bardic Courts of the parish some four hundred years ago and which is still alive today through our annual Dáimh Scoil Mhúscraighe or Court of Poetry. Whilst the more substantial body of songs and poets have come to the attention of various folksong collectors during the last century, the English language element of that same body has been forgotten. This is why Danny has concentrated on this body of songs. Amongst the better known of such local bards would be the family of the ‘Cornies” or Lehan’s of whom it was said that the sister Lena was the best. This compilation of Danny’s contains many songs from Danny Tom. In the preceding years Micheál Ó Tuama was the more popular man. His gave himself the pen name of George Curtin and that is how he is remembered today. George composed in Irish and English and, also, in Macoronic verse. Some of his songs are also on this recording. During his life, Danny he traveled and met many and picked up lots of unusual songs. They have survived through Danny’s and many have since become popular but here are their original form.   Danny is never slow to answer a request to sing a song and is very generous with his knowledge and wonderful memory. He is a member of Cór Cuil Aodah sine the mid 1960’s. In 1987 he moved to Dublin to study as apprentice in advioanced welding and fitting in preparation for the arrival of an advance R&D plant to Cuil Aodha. Whilst there he befriended Liam Weldon and Frank Harte amongst others and they formed into a regular folk singers gathering in places across the city chosen by Liam. On his return to Cúil Aodha, he continued to gather and collect songs. It has been one of the great privileges of my life to know Danny and call him friend and to bath in the happiness and pleasure and contemplative realities that he creates with his singing. Long may he thrive. Peadar Ó Riada


Taobh 1



  1. Cois a' Ghaorthaigh

  2. An Turas go h-Iona (Danny Maidhcí Ó Suileabháin)

  3. An Gandal (George Curtin)

  4. Carraig Aonair

  5. Achuinní Scoláire (Seán Eoghan Ó Suilleabháin)

  6. Sean an Capal (Tadhg na Tuinne)

  7. Glanlea (Micky & Patsy Cronin)

  8. Where the Pineapples Grow (Jim Kelly)

  9. John Twiss

  10. An Bonán Buí

  11. An Shabby Genteel

  12. Rise Up Paddy Buckley (File áitiúil)

  13. Distiller’s Regret (File áitiúil)

  14. Sean South From Garryowen

  15. Ten Minutes too Late

  16. The Bold Tipperary Boy

  17. The Braes of Balquidder

  18. The Cappabui Murder

  19. James Connolly   (Patrick Galvin)


Taobh 2



  1. About a Row

  2. Budoram's Ball   (Johnny Nora Aodha)

  3. Connie's Big Campaign (Johnny Nora Aodha)

  4. Mick Sullivan's Clock (George Curtain)

  5. The Man coming Home from Pretoria   (George Curtin)

  6. Jehr Foley's Boat  (George Curtain)

  7. The ESB (Danny Sullivan, Na Cipeacha)

  8. Battle of the Booster Station (Danny Tom)

  9. Fat Dan's Riffle (Danny Tom)

  10. Frank Kelly's Tree   (Danny Tom)

  11. John Gilpin's Top Coat (Danny Tom)

  12. Kruger's Old Mare (Danny Tom)

  13. Pat Murphy   (Danny Tom)

  14. The Butcher Danny Tom (Danny Tom)

  15. The Creamery by John C (Danny Tom)

  16. The Drunken Drovers (Danny Tom)

  17. The Sailor's Station (Danny Tom)

  18. The Seige of Boney's Lane   (Danny Tom)

  19. The Sow That They Failed to Kill (Danny Tom)


Credits


Amhránaí :                 Danny Maidhcí Ó Suilleabháin   dannymikie@hotmail.com


Taifead is léiriú:       Peadar Ó Riada www.peadaroriada.ie


Dearadh                    Edel Butler


Clodhbhuailte ag       Dutec.


C and P 2016

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