Skellig List

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Seanchas

2 Meitheamh 1936

Liam Smith

(gan teideal)

“Now this ploughland you can call it Tullimurrhy, Curravilaheen...”

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Seanchas

2 Meitheamh 1936

Donal O'Donovan

(gan teideal)

“I often heard of the robber "Maah Gún"...”

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Seanchas

Patrick Leahy

(gan teideal)

“The best man that was round here was Joe Smith...”

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Seanchas

Patrick Leahy

(gan teideal)

“I often took a salmon out o' the river.”

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Seanchas

Patrick Leahy

(gan teideal)

“I often heard of "Gander" Shortens.”

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Seanchas

Patrick Leahy

(gan teideal)

“I have no ould stories only what I heard from my father long ago.”

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Seanchas

Meitheamh 1936

Seán McCarthy

(gan teideal)

“This is another wan o' the stories my father used to tell.”

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Seanchas

Meitheamh 1936

Seán McCarthy

(gan teideal)

“I remember a little about the Fenians. ”

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Seanchas

Bealtaine 1936

Michael Crowley

(gan teideal)

“Well, now there is a good many stories about Marie "Gaelach"...”

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Seanchas

Seán McCarthy

(gan teideal)

“My mother. God have mercy on her soul. used remember the first o' the National schools.”

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Seanchas

Bealtaine 1936

Hannah McCarthy

(gan teideal)

“I remember the first National School in Ahiohill.”

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Seanchas

Bealtaine 1936

Denis McCarthy

(gan teideal)

“The ould people had "lots" o' stories but they're gone with 'em.”

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Seanchas

Meitheamh 1936

Maria O'Leary

(gan teideal)

“Well now I can hardly think of any more of my fathers ould stories.”

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Seanchas

Meitheamh 1936

Seán McCarthy

(gan teideal)

“Long long ago there was a Priest living in a big old house in Enniskean.”

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Seanchas

Meitheamh 1936

Edward Slyne

(gan teideal)

“Wance there was a poor girl went to "Service" to a "big house".”

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Seanchas

Thomas Hayes

(gan teideal)

“The oldest game I can remember is bowl playing.”

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Seanchas

Meitheamh 1936

Dan Donovan

(gan teideal)

“Tis often an often. "mossa" I drank agood glass o' potheen.”

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Seanchas

Seán Ó Cruadhlaoich

(gan teideal)

“I don't know how it is "a bhic"...”

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Seanchas

Meitheamh 1936

Diarmuid Ó Cruadhlaoich

(gan teideal)

“There was lots of ould cures going long go”

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Seanchas

Meitheamh 1936

Diarmuid Ó Cruadhlaoich