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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. (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

  2. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Seumas Ó Riardon

  3. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Seumas Ó Riardon

  4. (no title)

    “There was an ould man lived around here long ago.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Sean McCarthy

  5. (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

  6. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    August 1946

    Mary Crowley

  7. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Jerome Crowley

  8. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Jerome Crowley

  9. (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

  10. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    September 1946

    James O'Mahony

  11. (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

  12. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    September 1946

    Tim Coughlan

  13. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    1946

    Patrick Leahy

  14. (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

  15. (no title)

    “There were some queer people lived long ago.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Jerome Crowley

  16. (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

  17. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    September 1946

    William Murphy

  18. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Correspondence

    24 October 1946

  19. (no title)

    “Times have changed since I was a boy.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    September 1946

    Sean McCarthy

  20. (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