Mearing Stones: Leaves from My Note-Book on Tramp in Donegal
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Campbell Joseph. Mearing Stones: Leaves from My Note-Book on Tramp in Donegal
IN THE MOUNTAINS
THE WANDER-LUST
THE DARK WOMAN
BY LOCHROS BEAG
COACHING BY THE STARS
A RAINBOW
CHANGE
PROPHET’S FOOD
THE TRANSIENT
WOMEN AND HARES
THE SMELL OF THE TOWN
GLENGESH
CLOG-SEED
HERBS AND FLOWERS
A YOUNG GIRL
THE GENERAL LIGHT AND DARK
SOUL AND BODY
A MAN ON SHELTY-BACK
THE FAIRIES
STRANORLAR STATION
STONES
THE STRAND-BIRD
SPACE
RABBITS AND CATS
THE GLAS GAIBHLINN
A HOUSE IN THE ROAD’S MOUTH
THE QUEST
MUCKISH
THE MAY-FIRE
BLOODY FORELAND
TWILIGHT AND SILENCE
THE POOR HERD
A MOUNTAIN TRAMP
THE FESTIVAL OF DEATH
IN GLEN-COLUMCILLE
THE BRINK OF WATER
A DARK MORNING
THE SWALLOW-MARK
WOMEN BEETLING CLOTHES
THE SEA
A BALLAD-SINGER
SUNLIGHT
TURF-CUTTING
HIS OLD MOTHER
A DAY OF WIND AND LIGHT, BLOWN RAIN
LYING AND WALKING
GLEN-COLUMCILLE TO CARRICK
ORA ET LABORA
TWO THINGS THAT WON’T GO GREY
RUNDAL
PÚCA-PILES
THE ROSSES
A COUNTRY FUNERAL
YOUTH AND AGE
SUMMER DUSK
A NOTE
THE PEASANT IN LITERATURE
AN INSLEEP
WATER AND SLÁN-LUS
BY LOCHROS MÓR
RIVAL FIDDLERS
NATURE
SUNDAY UNDER SLIEVE LEAGUE
THE NIGHT HE WAS BORN
THE LUSMÓR
DERRY PEOPLE
A CLOCK
CARRICK GLEN
A SHUILER
TURKEYS IN THE TREES
A PARTY OF TINKERS
TEELIN, BUNGLASS, AND SLIEVE LEAGUE
THE SHOOTING STAR
SUNDAY ON THE ROAD BETWEEN CARRICK AND GLENGESH
A ROANY BUSH
AUGUST EVENING
NEAR INVER
ALL SUBTLE, SECRET THINGS
A MADMAN
LAGUNA
NEAR LETTERKENNY
SHAN MAC ANANTY
A POOR CABIN
THE FLAX-STONE
AFTER SUNSET
THE DARKNESS AND THE TIDE
ERRIGAL
THE SORE FOOT
ASHERANCALLY
ORANGE GALLASES
THE HUMAN VOICE
LOCH ALUINN
THE OPEN ROAD
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Sea-ribbons have I cut, and gathered ling; talked with fairies; heard Lia Fail moaning in the centre, and seen Tonn Tuaidh white in the north; slept on hearth-flags odd times, and under bushes other times; passed the mill with the scoop-wheels and the house with the golden door; following the roads – the heart always hot in me, the lights on the hills always beckoning me on!
“And at it (the great national convention at Uisneach in Meath) they were wont to make a sacrifice to the arch-god, whom they adored, whose name was Bél. It was likewise their usage to light two fires to Bél in every district in Ireland at this season, and to drive a pair of each herd of cattle that the district contained between these two fires, as a preservative, to guard them against all the diseases of that year. It is from that fire thus made that the day on which the noble feast of the apostles Peter and James is held has been called Bealteine (in Scotch Beltane), i. e., Bél’s fire.”
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“And at it (the great national convention at Uisneach in Meath) they were wont to make a sacrifice to the arch-god, whom they adored, whose name was Bél. It was likewise their usage to light two fires to Bél in every district in Ireland at this season, and to drive a pair of each herd of cattle that the district contained between these two fires, as a preservative, to guard them against all the diseases of that year. It is from that fire thus made that the day on which the noble feast of the apostles Peter and James is held has been called Bealteine (in Scotch Beltane), i. e., Bél’s fire.”
The boys and girls of a whole countryside repair to these fires, which are usually lit upon a high, commanding hill, and they spend the night out telling stories, reciting poems, singing, and dancing to the accompaniment of pipes and fiddles. The May-Fire is not quite so generally observed as the John’s-Fire, which is kindled on the night of the 23rd of June, St. John’s Eve.
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