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Delia Murphy Kiernan (16 February 1902 – 11 February 1971) was an Irish singer and collector of Irish ballads. She recorded several 78 rpm records in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. In 1962 she recorded her only LP , The Queen of Connemara , for Irish Prestige Records, New York, on the cover of which her name appears alongside the LP title.
The Spinning Wheel is also the title/subject of a classic Irish folk song by John Francis Waller. [51] [52] A traditional Irish folk song, Túirne Mháire, is generally sung in praise of the spinning wheel, [53] but was regarded by Mrs Costelloe, who collected it, [54] as "much corrupted", and may have had a darker narrative. It is widely ...
#1 Irish Spinner And Spinning Wheel. Co. Galway, Ireland, 1890 ... what Maxwell did back then isn't so far off from how we get color ... Woman opens wedding gift from grandma who died 28 years ago ...
In Baltic myth, Saule is the life-affirming sun goddess, whose numinous presence is signed by a wheel or a rosette. She spins the sunbeams. The Baltic connection between the sun and spinning is as old as spindles of the sun-stone, amber, that have been uncovered in burial mounds. Baltic legends as told have absorbed many images from ...
"The Spinning Wheel" – written in the 19th century by John Francis Waller and recorded by Delia Murphy. [53] "Nancy Spain" – written by Barney Rush from Dublin, recorded by Christy Moore [7] "The Nightingale" – Irish version of a song dating from the 17th century (Laws P13), recorded by Liam Clancy [69]
Later, the young king marries another woman, and Máire once again neglects the tables. A messenger finds her working on a spinning wheel on a stalk overlooking a cliff. A third messenger reports the sight back at the house and the third bride insists she used to do the same back home, then goes to Máire's location.
Sarah "Tabitha" Babbitt (December 9, 1779 - December 10, 1853) was a Shaker credited as a tool maker and inventor. Inventions attributed to her by the Shakers include the circular saw, the spinning wheel head, and false teeth.
Habetrot appears in a Selkirkshire folktale which is a variant of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index tale type ATU 501, "The Three Old Spinning Women". [2] [3] She is an old, deformed woman who lives underground with a group of other spinsters, all disfigured by their work (some have splayed feet or flat thumbs). The only other named spinster ...