Caoine na Maighdine os Cionn a hAon Mhic

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7 December 1949

Bean na bPúcaí

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26 March 1946

Máire Pheats Mhicí Ní Chatháin

(no title)

“My father - God rest him - used offin tell us about a family that lived in the 'mountain' long ago.”

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September 1946

Mrs P. Crowley

(no title)

“When the turnip sower was first used in this part of the country, it was a man was set to pull it.”

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July 1946

Jerome Crowley

(no title)

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

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September 1946

Tim Crowley

(no title)

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

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July 1946

Jerome Crowley

(no title)

“We heard, over and over, that an 'only' daughter was never lucky in the matter of marriage.”

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September 1946

Mrs P. Crowley

(no title)

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

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September 1946

Mrs J. Crowley

(no title)

“The village of Enniskean was noted for the very old people that lived there, and around it.”

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September 1946

Ellen Slyne

(no title)

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

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1946

Patrick Leahy

(no title)

“Go soon a Dia linn, boy, but wan of the men that's gone”

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September 1946

Donal McCarthy

(no title)

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

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July 1946

Seumas Ó Riardon

(no title)

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

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July 1946

Jerome Crowley

(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.”

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September 1946

Micheal O'Driscoll

(no title)

“This place is only like every place around, the people have changed.”

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September 1946

James O'Mahony

(no title)

“He said he knew another man that worked with him they worked together for a big farmer.”

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September 1946

Mrs P. Crowley

(no title)

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

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July 1946

Seumas Ó Riardon

(no title)

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

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August 1946

Mary Crowley

(no title)

“Cross men, men whose anger was easily roused, were said to be most tender hearted.”

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September 1946

William Murphy

(no title)

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

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July 1946

Seumas Ó Riardon