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The Main Manuscript Collection

This collection includes every aspect of the Irish oral tradition. New volumes are added on a regular basis. More information

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  1. Caoine na Maighdine os Cionn a hAon Mhic

    CBÉ 0096

    Lore

    7 December 1949

  2. (no title)

    “A Sheáin, a chara, Seo aríst leat é, mar a deirach na seandaoine.”

    CBÉ 1042

    Correspondence

    13 February 1947

  3. Bean na bPúcaí

    CBÉ 0201

    Lore

    26 March 1946

    Máire Pheats Mhicí Ní Chatháin

  4. (no title)

    “A Chara, Enclosed notebook has been on my hands since April 1946.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Correspondence

    24 October 1946

  5. (no title)

    “The devil is always trying to drag men down.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Seumas Ó Riardon

  6. (no title)

    “The best man that ever stood this part of the country was Barnán (Bernard).”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    1946

    Patrick Leahy

  7. (no title)

    “Mind you, down through the generations it was very, very hard to get old people to change...”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Jerome Crowley

  8. (no title)

    “Times have changed since I was a boy.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    September 1946

    Sean McCarthy

  9. (no title)

    “There is no man six feet tall. Every man is some bit under or over six feet.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    September 1946

    Tim Crowley

  10. (no title)

    “The best man I ever knew was a man that lived down there in the town of Bandon...”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Seumas Ó Riardon

  11. (no title)

    “Wisha may God be with the old people. What changes the years bring.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    August 1946

    Mary Crowley

  12. (no title)

    “There was a man and his wife lived over there in the "Ballimanach", They were constantly rowing.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Jerome Crowley

  13. (no title)

    “There were some queer people lived long ago.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Jerome Crowley

  14. (no title)

    “I remember myself to see two men pulling a harrow, covering oats.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Jerome Crowley

  15. (no title)

    “I knew a poor old woman that lived around here as honest a poor creature as ever drew breath.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    September 1946

    Mrs T. Coughlan

  16. (no title)

    “Life is a strange thing. The birth and death of a human being is governed by the tides and the sun.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Seumas Ó Riardon

  17. (no title)

    “Old people belived that a person dying away from their old home....”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Seumas Ó Riardon

  18. (no title)

    “There was an ould man lived near our place an' wan evening an' he turning out the cows after being milked...”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    September 1946

    Mrs J. Crowley

  19. (no title)

    “The ould people would live and die talking about the good men of their own time, and the way they would describe the men.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    September 1946

    Micheal O'Driscoll

  20. (no title)

    “People long 'go had curious ways for talking about others.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    September 1946

    Tim Coughlan