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  1. Caoine na Maighdine os Cionn a hAon Mhic

    CBÉ 0096

    Lore

    7 Nollaig 1949

  2. Bean na bPúcaí

    CBÉ 0201

    Lore

    26 Márta 1946

    Máire Pheats Mhicí Ní Chatháin

  3. (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

    Iúil 1946

    Seumas Ó Riardon

  4. (no title)

    The devil is always trying to drag men down.

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Iúil 1946

    Seumas Ó Riardon

  5. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Lúnasa 1946

    Mary Crowley

  6. (no title)

    There were some queer people lived long ago.

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Iúil 1946

    Jerome Crowley

  7. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Iúil 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

    Iúil 1946

    Jerome Crowley

  9. (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

    Meán Fómhair 1946

    Mrs J. Crowley

  10. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Meán Fómhair 1946

    James O'Mahony

  11. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Meán Fómhair 1946

    William Murphy

  12. (no title)

    Go soon a Dia linn, boy, but wan of the men that's gone

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Meán Fómhair 1946

    Donal McCarthy

  13. (no title)

    The village of Enniskean was noted for the very old people that lived there, and around it.

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Meán Fómhair 1946

    Ellen Slyne

  14. (no title)

    I knew a poor old woman that lived around here as honest a poor creature as ever drew breath.

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Meán Fómhair 1946

    Mrs T. Coughlan

  15. (no title)

    There is no man six feet tall. Every man is some bit under or over six feet.

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Meán Fómhair 1946

    Tim Crowley

  16. (no title)

    We heard, over and over, that an 'only' daughter was never lucky in the matter of marriage.

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Meán Fómhair 1946

    Mrs P. Crowley

  17. (no title)

    He said he knew another man that worked with him they worked together for a big farmer.

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Meán Fómhair 1946

    Mrs P. Crowley

  18. (no title)

    There was an ould man lived around here long ago.

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Iúil 1946

    Sean McCarthy

  19. (no title)

    The best man I ever knew was a man that lived down there in the town of Bandon...

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    Iúil 1946

    Seumas Ó Riardon

  20. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 1011

    Lore

    1946

    Patrick Leahy