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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. Finn MacCool

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    10 August 1939

    Domnall Ó Dinnín

  2. (no title)

    “Ceathair Béarna - the gappy or windy city - is situated at the foot of Bogeragh range on the Cork-Kerry Border.”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    15 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  3. Local School - 1870

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    15 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  4. Eviction

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    15 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  5. (no title)

    “Near the place where this family built their small hut on the mountain side, there were other families living...”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    15 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  6. (no title)

    “About the time of the famine, a travelling man came to this district...”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    15 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  7. (no title)

    “At the time of this story, it was supposed that every man was allowed two wives.”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    18 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  8. Eviction

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    20 August 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  9. Ghost Stories

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    22 August 1939

    Peg Donnelly

  10. Carraig an Leinbh

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    22 August 1939

    Peg Donnelly

  11. (no title)

    “In this locality there lived a woman named Mrs Faide about eighty or ninety years ago.”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    22 August 1939

    Peg Donnelly

  12. Forts - Ceathair Beárna

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    22 August 1939

    Peg Donnelly

  13. (no title)

    “Another story is told of how in a local village there lived a priest who was unfrocked because he was a drunkard.”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    22 August 1939

    Peg Donnelly

  14. Musheragh

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    21 September 1939

    Pádraig Ó Críodáin

  15. (no title)

    “A man named Mart Kelleher a merchant in Kilgarvan was coming from Ballyvourney acompanied by his son.”

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    Lore

    24 September 1939

    Pádraig Ó hÉaluighthe

  16. (no title)

    “The following story was told to me by Pádraig Ua Éaluighthe also, of which he was an eye-witness as he was one of the men on sentry duty.”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    24 September 1939

    Pádraig Ó hÉaluighthe

  17. Riddle

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    24 September 1939

    Pádraig Ó hÉaluighthe

  18. (no title)

    “In the old days, about fifty years ago, many marriages were arranged by the parents...”

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    26 September 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  19. Dancing

    CBÉ 0670

    Lore

    26 September 1939

    Dómhnall Ó Buachalla

  20. (no title)

    “In the kingdom of Kerry there once lived a very rich man. He had one son and his wife died shortly after...”

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    Lore

    27 September 1939

    Pádraig Ua Muimhneacháin