<i>Caoineadh os Cionn Coirp</i>: The Lament for the Dead in Ireland

Lysaght, Patricia

doi:10.1080/0015587x.1997.9715938

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“…The moment of death had much traditional significance (Aries, 1974;Donnelly, 1999a, b;Lysaght, 1986Lysaght, , 1995Lysaght, , 1997Tyers, 1992;Van Gennep, 1961). This work follows a study by one of the authors on traditions of dying and death in Ireland and Scotland (Donnelly, 1999a, b).…”

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Experience of the moment of death at home

Donnelly¹,

Michael²,

Donnelly³

2006

Mortality

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The aim was to enquire qualitatively into the phenomenon of the moment of death at home as experienced by the lay carer. Using a purposeful sampling strategy, rural and urban families were identified in the mid-west of Ireland. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the main carer 2 to 21 days (average 10 days) after the death. The proximity of the interviews to the death was a unique aspect of the study. Twenty-two families were recruited with 10 completing the interviews which were analysed using a framework approach of grounded theory. The first of three major themes describes the experience of the moment of death with particular reference to breathing and mystery. The second theme of relationship encompasses the characteristics of the carer, gender, humour, and the patient's personality. Finally, the role of the professional as guide is explored. This is the experience of the moment of death as recounted by 10 families. Our findings bring the deathbed scene to our clinical and conceptual attention. The painful, mysterious, and intimate reality of dying needs to be given its place in the curriculum of medical training. It already has its place in the community we serve.

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“…Pauline McCormack mentions the word ''lovely'' four times in the description of the moment of death of her mother. She in fact describes a lament which is resonant of the caoineadh (Lysaght, 1997) or keening, a traditional Irish expression of grief. ''I just felt a huge sob come up from my toes.…”

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Experience of the moment of death at home

Donnelly¹,

Michael²,

Donnelly³

2006

Mortality

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“…In Ireland the ecclesiastical authorities universally deplored such wake practices as the expression of simple anarchy and lawlessness. However, wakes were secretly tolerated by the dominant Roman Catholic culture of the county (O'Suilleabhain 1967, Evans 1957, Lysaght 1997. O'SuiUeabhain and Lysaght, together with Gordon (1984), who describes wake customs in Scotland, draw attention to the opposition that funeral disorder aroused on the part of the church authorities.…”

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Playing Games with Death

Grainger

2011

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The symbolism of chaos which emerges from the "amusements" around which traditional Irish funerals were organized brings home an essential truth about corporate rituals: that they serve to focus our awareness of a global tiuth embodied within an articulated gesture of human meaning. Tn the act which signifies a specific dying, a message about all human life is encapsulated. The funeral is seen as a communication about survival. Examples of this are given, and it is argued that the structure of such ceremonies reveals the underlyingfunction of ritual itself. Corporate rites present us with a paradigm of the use of chaos to clear a way for new kinds of order. Tn their three-fold configuration, rites of passage reveal the need for genuine beginnings to be preceded by actual endings. KeywordsIrish wakes, rituals, meaning, new order "The familiar words and shared ritual help me feel connected, when I don't know who I am, when I have nothing to say, when the quicksand has swallowed me whole."Peter Bates, 2007 Wake-chaos Within the religious dynamism underlying the language of corporate ritual, the threat of chaos involves the promise of a new kind of unity. The idea of wholeness, of a transcending super-ordinate completeness-which is totally satisfactory, totally revitalising-is symbolically present within the rite's central section, alongside all the evddence of anarchy and disruption. The traditional Irish wake illustrates this vividly. Here, the living and the dead join forces to face a transforming ordeal whose aim is the reconstitution of a viable universe of co-existence. This ordeal is a fruitful chaos for

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“…12 These moments had the power to effect reconciliation between the dead person and his or her surviving friends and family and achieve their incorporation with the inhabitants of the afterlife. 13 There was, then, another temporal horizon gestured at in the prayers for the dead‚ for the amount of time that the soul of the deceased spent in purgatory concerned those who attended wakes. In 1813, a Purgatorian Society was founded in Dublin and, for the price of a penny a week, every subscribing member was entitled to have post-mortem masses said for them and their family to relieve the burden of time spent in purgatory.…”

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McCorristine¹

2017

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and Its Timings

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Caoineadh os Cionn Coirp: The Lament for the Dead in Ireland

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