(no title)

“Me grandfather was often tellin of a man names Pat Stafford that got a fright on the Whittieshill road wan night.”

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29 July 1938

Áine Bean Uí Mhurchadha

(no title)

“Me father was comin' home from playin' cards some where in Harristown wan night, himself an a man named Tom Nugent.”

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1 August 1938

Áine Bean Uí Mhurchadha

(no title)

“When I was a girl at service the women had to get up at four o' clock in the mornin' to make cutlins for the mens' breakfast.”

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1 August 1938

Áine Bean Uí Mhurchadha

(no title)

“There was a priest goin' along the road in a sidecar wan day an' he had a boy drivin' him.”

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4 August 1938

Áine Bean Uí Mhurchadha

(no title)

“I often heard me father goin' over wan day he made three ricks of hay.”

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4 August 1938

Áine Bean Uí Mhurchadha

(no title)

“There was a man named Holmes drivin' pigs to the fair in Carrig about half past four wan mornin', this was nearly fifty years ago.”

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5 August 1938

Áine Bean Uí Mhurchadha

(no title)

“A priest that was in Ballymitty got lave from a landlord to shoot on his land.”

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5 August 1938

Áine Bean Uí Mhurchadha

(no title)

“There was a fool wan time an' anytime he'd get money he'd hide it in a hole in the ditch.”

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8 August 1938

Risteard Ó Meadóg

(no title)

“Did ya hear what the tinker said the night that the child was born?”

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9 August 1938

Siobhán Bean Uí Bhroin

(no title)

“When you see a fern as long as the handle of a spoon...”

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9 August 1938

Risteard Ó Meadóg

(no title)

“There was a little man an' he had a little gun an' his bullets was' made of lead, lead lead.”

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10 August 1938

Siobhán Bean Uí Bhroin

(no title)

“The girls attending the school here play a game which they call "Colours", out of a crowd of girls one is selected as the Devil and another as an Angel...”

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10 August 1938

Eibhlín Ní Bhroin

(no title)

“There was a farmers wife an' she had four or five daughters an' none of 'em was very good lookin.”

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11 August 1938

Micheál Ó Murchadha

(no title)

“When I was young a gang of men would rapin' hooks used to gather outside the chapel gate every Sunday in the harvest after Mass...”

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12 August 1938

Risteard Ó Meadóg

(no title)

“Fifty or sixty years ago people used to make their own candles.”

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14 August 1938

Risteard Ó Meadóg

Sweet Slaney Side

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20 August 1938

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh

(no title)

“A farmer engaged a man to work would him an' after the breakfast he sent him off to cut faggots.”

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4 September 1938

Maitiú Mac Oilifir

(no title)

“There was a rich farmer wan time an' the people used to call him John the Barney...”

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6 September 1938

Micheál Ó Murchadha

(no title)

“Matty Brien had a publichouse on the Quay of Ross, an' at wan time he was very rich but himself an' his wife began to drink...”

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8 September 1938

Micheál Ó Murchadha

(no title)

“About fifty five years ago I was at a wake in the Co Carlow, an' the corpse was brought out in the barn to be waked.”

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10 September 1938

Micheál Ó Murchadha