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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)

    “The Banshee followed the Reillys.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  2. (no title)

    “Duffy's father often sold butter and flax in the town of Cavan which was the best market for butter.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  3. (no title)

    “One evening some Drumhalry neighbours had finished a day's hay-reek making...”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  4. (no title)

    “Many people get warning for death.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  5. (no title)

    “In Patrick Duffy's grand-father's day, whenever people say a raven in the air...”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  6. (no title)

    “When Patrick Duffy's young brother John was dying, while a little boy...”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  7. (no title)

    “When Patrick Duffy's father died, Patrick had eight gallons of whiskey at his father's funeral.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  8. (no title)

    “At a wake when a person was offered a pipe he could refuse it...”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  9. (no title)

    “A plate of snuff was laid on the table beside the corpse.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  10. (no title)

    “A wake game called the "Nine Daughters" has already been published in Béaloideas from Mr. Duffy.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  11. (no title)

    “Another game played at wakes in Drumhalry was called "Shuffle the Brogue".”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  12. (no title)

    “Another game played at wakes was in the nature of a slapping game.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  13. (no title)

    “Another game played at wakes was known as "Making Poitín".”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  14. (no title)

    “During Duffy's young days the priest stopped all the wake games.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  15. (no title)

    “The ould Irish wake games" in the Co. Leitrim were, duffy says, more original games than the Longford ones...”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  16. (no title)

    “Of course the very young and the very old people never took part in the wake games.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  17. (no title)

    “Duffy says that he often heard of mock-marriages like the 'nine daughters' being played at wakes.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  18. (no title)

    “When the priest wanted to stop the games he spoke from the Altar about them.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  19. (no title)

    “Duffy says that it is believed that people who do not lead good lives go towards the North when they die.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  20. (no title)

    “A man who was blamed by a girl as being the father of her child died.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy