| Baineann �Clann Lir� le sc�al � Shraith na Miotaseola�ochta darbh ainm �Oidhe Chlann Lir�. Mar aon leis na sc�alta �Oidhe Chlann Uisnigh� agus �Oidhe Chlann Tuireann�, seo ceann amh�in de na sc�alta a thugtar �Tr� Thrua na Sc�ala�ochta� orthu. Scr�obh S�amas � Searcaigh �Clann Lir� le linn na naoi d�ag daichid�, ach t� an sc�al f�in bunaithe ar leagan �n cheathr� haois d�ag. �Clann Lir� relates to a story from the Mythological Series called �Oidhe Chlann Lir�. Along with the stories �Oidhe Chlann Uisnigh� and �Oidhe Chlann Tuireann�, this is one of the stories which is called �Tr� Thrua na Sc�ala�ochta�. S�amas � Searcaigh wrote �Clann Lir� during the nineteen forties, but the story itself is based on a version from the fourteenth century. Ins�onn �Clann Lir� sc�al faoi thri�r dhearth�ir agus deirfi�r amh�in, mar at� Aodh, Conn, Fiachra agus Fionnuala. Cuirtear faoi dhra�ocht iad ag a leasmh�thair, Aoife, mar t� s� in �ad leo. S�leann Aoife go bhfuil n�os m� gr� ag a fear c�ile, Lear, do na p�ist� n� mar at� aige di. Imr�onn s� feall ar chlann Lir agus mar gheall air sin t� orthu naoi gc�ad bliain a chaitheamh mar eala�. F�gann Aoife a gcaint dhaonna f�in acu go f�ill �fach. �Clann Lir� tells the story of three brothers and one sister, namely Aodh, Conn, Fiachra and Fionnuala. They are put under a spell by their stepmother, Aoife, because she is jealous of them. Aoife thinks that her husband, Lear, loves the children more than he loves her. She betrays the children of Lear and consequently they have to spend nine hundred years as swans. Aoife leaves them their own human speech however. Caitheann siad an ch�ad tr� ch�ad bliain ar Loch Dairbhreach, loch at� suite i gContae na hIarmh� anois. T� an dara tr�imhse, ar fharraige gharbh Shruth na Maoile, i bhfad n�os deacra le fulaingt ag clann Lir. Caitheann na heala� o�cheanta l�anmhara san fhuacht, in �it nach mb�onn ach pian, piol�id agus anr� acu. Cr�ochna�onn siad a ndeora�ocht le tr�imhse in Iorras Domhnann. C� go bhfuil an �it seo iontach garbh fosta, taispe�nann clann Lir a nd�nit, a n-uaisleacht agus a r�ndaigne i gc�na�. Tugann Fionnuala uchtach agus misneach d� dearth�ireacha. They spend the first three hundred years on Loch Dairbhreach, a lake which is situated in County Westmeath today. The second period, on the rough sea of Sruth na Maoile, is much more difficult to endure for the children of Lear. The swans spend sorrowful nights in the cold, in a place where they experience only pain, torture and hardship. They finish their exile with a period in Iorras Domhnann. Although this place is very rough as well, the children of Lear consistently show their dignity, their nobility and their determination. Fionnuala gives her brothers strength and encouragement. Ag deireadh an sc�il t� clann Lir ina gc�na� i mainistreach le Naomh Mochaomh�g. T� gach duine a raibh aithne acu orthu imithe faoin am seo agus t� siad f�gtha mar Ois�n i ndiaidh na F�inne. Mar gheall ar shantacht dhuine amh�in, r� darbh ainm Lairgne�n mac Colm�in le bheith beacht, d�antar seandaoine caite den cheathrar. T� an Chr�osta�ocht i r�im in �irinn anois agus d�antar Cr�ostaithe de chlann Lir. Ar an d�igh sin cuirtear deireadh d�chasach le sc�al trag�ideach agus crutha�tear don l�itheoir gur f�idir leis an mhaith, sa ch�s seo mic agus in�on Lir, an olc a chlo� i gc�na�. At the end of the story the children of Lear are dwelling in an abbey with St Mochaomh�g. Everyone they ever knew has gone by this time and they are left like �Ois�n i ndiaidh na F�inne�. Because of the greed of one person, a king called Lairgne�n mac Colm�in to be precise, the four are turned into withered old people. Christianity is flourishing in Ireland now and the children of Lear become Christians. In that way a tragic story is given a hopeful ending and it is proven to the reader that good, in this case the sons and daughter of Lear, can always defeat evil. (337 focal) |
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