Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Tiotal a' Chlàir - The Lonely Banna Strand
Fiosraichean - John Stewart
Luchd-clàraidh -
Item Person - Casement, Roger

Geàrr-chunntas - Fragments of the Irish song 'The Lonely Banna Strand', in which Roger Casement is arrested by the Brtish following a failed attempt to land weapons from a ship anchored of the Banna Strand.

The contributor heard the song thirty years before in the south of Ireland from a man named Paddy Delaney.

Fad a' Chlàir (h:m:s) - 00:02:33
Àm Clàraidh - 1957
Àm a' Chuspair - 1916.04.21 gu 1916.08.03
Cànan - Beurla
Seòrsa - Òran, Fiosrachadh
Cruinneachadh - Sgoil Eòlais na h-Alba

Àireamh a' Chlàir - 31520
Àireamh an Teip Thùsail - SA1957.019
Àireamh a' Chlàir Thùsail - SA1957.19.A2
Càileachd an Fhuaime - Meadhanach Math
Cruth Inneal a' Chlàir - R2R

Seòrsachadh - R5324;


Àite Clàraidh:
  Siorrachd - Siorrachd Shruighlea
  Paraiste - Kippen
  Baile/Àite -

Notaichean a' Chlàir - 4 verses of 4 lines. This song recounts the true story of Roger Casement's attempt to obtain armaments from Germany to aid the Easter Rising (1916) in Ireland. The weapons were brought to Ireland by the German ship 'Libau', but the rendezvous at Banna Strand was abortive and Casement was captured, tried and hung by the British.
Banna Strand, also known as Banna Beach, is an Atlantic Ocean beach extending from Ballyheigue Beach at the Blackrock in the North to Barrow Beach at its southern edge, located in County Kerry.
See:
'Irish Songs of Resistance' (P. Galvin, 1955) pp. 57-58
'Irish Ballads & Songs of the Sea' (J. N. Healy, 1967) pp.66, 71-73
'Till Doomsday in the Afternoon' (E. MacColl & P. Seeger, 1986) pp. 236-237

Ceangal Maireannach - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/gd/fullrecord/31520/1


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