(gan teideal)

“It is said that a person should make a wish at every crossroads...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“Rivers rising on new years night is a sign...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“If a lone crow calls on a house top, or on a chimney...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“If a person dreams of seeing a grave opened and empty...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“A Corpse that dosen't get stiff is a sign that some other person in the family is going to die soon after...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“White patches on the fingernails:...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“If a person looses a sixpence, or any coin...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“A woman should never cut a man's hair...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“If seven boys are born after other...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“Children who are born, with a covering on their heads, which is usually called the "sailors cap"...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“In the times o' the Ribbon-men I herd me grandfather sayin'...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“Peter Dwyer of Cloghogue was considered the best bone setter in this district in his time.”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“There was a poor old wida woman livin on the Kingsborough estate, close on a hundred years ago now, she was a Catholic.”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“Two fairly hard cases o men war comin' down the coach road at Ballinfaad wan night...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“A Bishop who came to Geevagh to administer the sacrament of Confirmation to the children of the parish was staying in a house...”

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Seanchas

23 Bealtaine 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“This is a fact that ushed to happen to a poor woman a neighbour o' our own who lived up on the Clochogue mountain.”

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Seanchas

20 Iúil 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

How the Walshes Came to Ireland

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Seanchas

1 Iúil 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“The point o' Shrelahan is wan place in the Co Sligo that in ould times very few people liked to pass be for it was said, that it wan of the worsht an' mosht dangerous places, that ye could thravel be.”

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Seanchas

1 Iúil 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“Well theres many curious kinds o' people in this world an its in ould belief that the more curious they are the worshe people thry to make them, when they are talkin about them...”

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Seanchas

14 Lúnasa 1938

Seán P. Breathnach

(gan teideal)

“Smiths in ould times ushed to always be considhered the cleveresht men in Ireland. And it washtn't alone at their thrade that they excelled...”

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Seanchas

14 Lúnasa 1938

Seán P. Breathnach