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  1. (no title)

    A mason named Andy Fox lived in Graiguenamana...

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    26 December 1936

    Micheál Ó Murchadha

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    They war a man and a woman wan time an they had a tidy bit of land...

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    28 December 1936

    Richeárd Ó Meadóg

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    Josie Sutton was in a public house wan night...

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    30 December 1936

    Seamus Ó Cathail

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    The banshee...

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    31 December 1936

    Micheál Ó Murchadha

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    There used to be a fair held in Nash on the twenty ninth of June...

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    2 January 1937

    Pádraig Ó Néill

  6. (no title)

    About the year forty four I first took a notion...

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    4 January 1937

    Micheál Ó Murchadha

  7. (no title)

    A rich farmer an his wife lived in Donegal...

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    4 January 1937

    Micheál Ó Murchadha

  8. Focail

    Keeler = a round shallow wooden vessel...

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    4 January 1937

    Áine Uí Choilleáin

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    When I was a young fella labourin...

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    4 January 1937

    Micheál Ó Murchadha

  10. (no title)

    About fifty years ago when a wake used...

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    8 January 1937

    Séamus Ó Broin

  11. (no title)

    An ould man named Mickey Keane lived over in Ballinglee, he had great belief in fairies...

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    10 February 1937

    Micheál Ó Murchadha

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    There was an ould fella named Paddy Gray...

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    1 March 1937

    Máirtín Ó Coilleáin

  13. (no title)

    Here I am Lar Moran...

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    9 March 1937

    Seán Ó Coileáin

  14. (no title)

    Sarsfield is the word...

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    4 May 1937

    Pádraig Ó Néill

  15. (no title)

    There was a farmer wan time...

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    10 May 1937

    Pádraig Ó Néill

  16. (no title)

    Three generations ago a family named Colfer...

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    20 May 1937

    Pádraig Ó Néill

  17. (no title)

    In Wexford fifty or sixty years ago used to agree...

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    6 June 1937

    Máirtín Mac Grádha

  18. Bannow's Lonely Shore

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    8 June 1937

    Micheál Ó Murchadha

  19. (no title)

    A farmer's wife started to churn wan day.

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    25 June 1937

    Seamus Ó Cathail

  20. (no title)

    I have but one horn...

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    25 June 1937

    Seamus Ó Cathail