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“Whenever the young asked the old people for the reason why the pookees don't appear so often now as they used to...”

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“Shaun Flynn's wife, known locally as Molly Vaun, was a great friend of my Grandmother's.”

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1939

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“Once an old man came in the middle of the night for the habit to put on his son who was said to be dying...”

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1939

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“There are no amusements of any kind carried on in wakes in this locality.”

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1939

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“On the day of my grandmother's funeral a crowd of people gathered into the house and about the yard.”

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1939

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“There was a man named Tim Dineen living in this parish some years ago.”

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1939

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“Corpses are always laid in the grave with the feet towards the east...”

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1939

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“I often heard my grandmother speak of "a bad wind" in which the Good People went about.”

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1939

O'Reilly's Penance

“I often heard my grandmother sing the following song, but I had forgotten the words until Bill Gaine gave them to me the other day.”

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1939

William Gaine

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“There is an old belief that if a person is murdered and the murderer happens to stoop over the corpse of the victim it will spatter blood over him.”

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1939

Four Yellow Boards and I

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John O'Donoghue

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“In the matter of laments for the dead I will now give one which came directly from my heart while I worked...”

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1939

Lament for John and Tom O'Connor, who were Murdered on September the 9th, 1922, at Kenmare. (At the Graveyard).

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1939

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“There is a belief that it is unlucky to bring a corpse to a dwelling house.”

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1939

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“There is a lovely old Irish song called in English "The Nice Girl Milking her Cow", which is said to have been cursed by a priest...”

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1939

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“Once upon a time" it is said that Kilgarvan village was startled out of its wits by the sight of a human skull coming of its own accord, it seemed...”

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1939

In the Lone Hours of Night

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1939

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“My Grandmother used to tell me that death was "a small little black maneen" who went about the world choking people.”

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1939

Death and Disease (Continued)

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1939

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“A little shower of blood is said to fall now and again on members of Bill Gaine's family.”

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1939