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  1. Sick Call

    CBÉ 0253

    Lore

    August 1936

    Sean McCarthy

  2. Banshee

    CBÉ 0462

    Lore

    December 1937

    Sean McCarthy

  3. Blast

    CBÉ 0462

    Lore

    November 1937

    Sean McCarthy

  4. (no title)

    “Can you give me a detailed account of the years work on the farm as carried on at present.”

    CBÉ 0558

    Lore

    June 1938

    Sean McCarthy

  5. (no title)

    “I remember when football and hurling were played in a very rough way, no rules, no laws of any kind.”

    CBÉ 0558

    Lore

    June 1938

    Sean McCarthy

  6. (no title)

    “Did you ever hear of "clos na paiste".”

    CBÉ 0558

    Lore

    June 1938

    Sean McCarthy

  7. (no title)

    “The "bible reader" for this district was an old fellow named Buttimer.”

    CBÉ 0558

    Lore

    August 1938

    Sean McCarthy

  8. (no title)

    “Tis often I thinks if the people that's dead an' gone could come back an' see the way the people are living now, an' the way they uset' live long 'go.”

    CBÉ 0575

    Lore

    October 1938

    Sean McCarthy

  9. Was Money Plenty when you Were Young

    CBÉ 0575

    Lore

    October 1938

    Sean McCarthy

  10. Did you ever See an Eel that was Supposed to Be a Horsehair at One Time

    CBÉ 0575

    Lore

    October 1938

    Sean McCarthy

  11. (no title)

    “I can remember yet the beggars that came to us when I was a young fellow. There was a whole lot of 'em going around.”

    CBÉ 0575

    Lore

    October 1938

    Sean McCarthy

  12. Oh, Bandon was a 'hot shop' at wan time, an t'isn't so mighty long 'go aither.

    CBÉ 0575

    Lore

    October 1938

    Sean McCarthy

  13. (no title)

    “I can remember the "wakes" fifty years ago.”

    CBÉ 0610

    Lore

    January 1939

    Sean McCarthy

  14. (no title)

    “I knew an old woman.”

    CBÉ 0610

    Lore

    January 1939

    Sean McCarthy

  15. (no title)

    “Indeed it was a common belief with the old people that anywan taken away with a sudden death...”

    CBÉ 0610

    Lore

    March 1939

    Sean McCarthy

  16. (no title)

    “There was an auld man living around here, this a long time ago. ”

    CBÉ 0610

    Lore

    March 1939

    Sean McCarthy

  17. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    July 1946

    Sean McCarthy

  18. (no title)

    “Times have changed since I was a boy.”

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    September 1946

    Sean McCarthy