Death and Disease

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Seanchas

1939

William Gaine

(gan teideal)

“The following poem, sung to the same air...”

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Seanchas

1939

William Gaine

(gan teideal)

“I was told a story by Mary Ellen Gallivan of Lomanaugh about an uncle of hers, O'Sullivan (Owen) of Lower Cummeen.”

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Seanchas

1939

Mary Ellen Gallivan

(gan teideal)

“Two young men named Buckley and Sweeney were very fond of poaching game, and one night after a tiring day's travelling...”

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Seanchas

1939

Michael McCarthy

(gan teideal)

“A man named Ouliveen Lynch of Gorralethir, Morley's Bridge, had a daughter married to Robert Gaine...”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“Some forty or fifty years ago there lived at Meelick a woman called Mary Doyle who was said to go about in company with the Good People.”

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Seanchas

1939

Mary Twoomey

(gan teideal)

“My grandmother believed in the return of the dead. She always swept the hearth clean with a bunch of heather...”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“There is a family called O'Sullivan (McCann) living at the foot of Mangerton Mountain, and when a death is to...”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“About a year ago a middle-aged man named Jerry Dineen of Inchees (whom I knew well) went up for the night with...”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“A young man named Ned Sweeney died about a month ago. I heard this day that his first cousin is feeling very...”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“When people here find occasion to speak of a dead person, they pray for his soul.”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“I remember my mother telling of a dream she had about an awful big coffin.”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“I had once the distinction of having been mistaken for one of the Good People without having the slightest intention of representing myself as one of them.”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“My grandmother could speak Irish as fluently as English and she was deeply versed in ancient lore. ”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“There is a man living a few miles from here whom we call Big Denis.”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“The celebrated Mary Doyle, local ambassador to fairy-land, who was consulted in all cases of serious diseases...”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“I got the following story from a woman in Kilgarvan some years ago. I'll re-tell it here in the way the old people would do it...”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“There was a family living in Lomanaugh, too, but because some of their descendants still live there and are close relations and friends of my own...”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“By far the most romantic figure among the charm workers was Pahd Bwee (Lynch), a wandering musician who flourished in these valleys some fifty years ago or more.”

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Seanchas

1939

(gan teideal)

“There is a field in a neighbour's farm near us and it goes by the very poetic name of Gaurdeen Owen na Knapee Bawn.”

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Seanchas

1939