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The Main Manuscript Collection
CBÉ 0190

Volume: CBÉ 0190

Date

1936

Collector

Seán de Buitléir

Locations

Bannow, Co. Wexford
Mayglass, Co. Wexford
Mulrankin, Co. Wexford
Templeshannon, Co. Wexford
Whitechurchglynn, Co. Wexford

Titles (76)

1. “This is the conclusion of what I sent in, in my last book. It concerns the work that goes on in a farmhouse kitchen.”

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2. Seventh Son

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3. Wake Games

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4. Blessed Wells

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5. Cures

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6. Dead Coach

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7. “Near Tottenham Green a long time ago a black dog used to be seen.”

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8. Childrens' Games - Taws

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9. Skittles

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10. Hunt the Fox

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11. The Fool in the Middle

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12. Blind Booby

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13. Rounders

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14. Apples and Oranges

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15. The Divil and the Angel

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16. Around the Green Gravel

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17. “There is another game used to be played.”

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18. “I was going to the Co. Kilkenny wan day and I went into a road...”

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19. “This is a rhyme that a person must say without drawing his breath.”

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20. “There was a travelling man used to go around this county about fifty years ago...”

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21. Parnell's Rhyme

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22. Wake Games

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23. Hurry the Brogue

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24. “Another game played at wakes was "my man John"...”

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25. Inscription on a Tombstone in the Old Church of Bannow

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26. “Some people say that the City of Bannow wasn't buried at all...”

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27. Signs of the Weather

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28. Petticoat Loose

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29. “Mike Byrne of Bannow was coming home one night and a black dog followed him. ”

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30. Jack the Giant Killer

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31. “When people are churning it anyone come into the dairy that they should take a hand at the churn...”

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32. She gees or whirlwinds are very plentiful down in Bannow. They are always called She-gees by the local people.

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33. “There was a wake one night in a certain house.”

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34. Fairies

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35. “I heard another story about the fairies.”

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36. “When the Danes were here in Ireland they would make wine out of the heath. ”

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37. “It is a very lucky thing to lie down in a bunch of ferns for Our Lord slept in them.”

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38. My Old Finian Gun

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39. “Here I am a stranger last night...”

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40. The Redmoor Song

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41. Rats' Cleverness

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42. “There was a smith one time and he was very poor...”

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43. Fairies

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44. There was another man going out to shoot wan morning at four o clock...

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45. Wake Games and Tricks

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46. Bonfires

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47. “There was a man one time and he was going with a girl for a number of years.”

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48. “There was a man named Peter Breen working...”

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49. The Murder of James Carey

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50. “There was a king in Ireland long ago and he had wan daughter,...”

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51. “There was a man one time and he got married but he had no family. ”

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52. “Long ago the tide used to come from Kilmore Quay to Baldwinstown.”

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53. “There was a man wan time and he was married an' had a big family. ”

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54. Foxes' Tricks

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55. “There was a man went out one morning to shoot.”

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56. Mummers' Rhymes

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57. “I saw a birch flag making hay for the Lord of Tyrone”

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58. “There was a certain thing that I forgot to mention when I was writing down the doctor's rhyme. ”

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59. The Eviction of Coolroe

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60. The Wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer

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61. Ballyshannon Lane

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62. “Long ago there were houses on the Saltee Islands and there was a man named Park...”

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63. “There was a family lived in Kilquawn by the name of Cardiff...”

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64. “There were two fellows by the name of Bill Kenderick and Willie Magrath...”

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65. “One morning at Kilmore Quay...”

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66. “It is a custom in the Co. Wexford that when a person goes in to a dairy he or she must say "God bless the work"...”

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67. Mummers' Rhymes

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68. “There was a gentleman and his servant travelling around the country one time.”

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69. The Glen Rose

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70. Pat Devereux

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71. Granuaile

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72. Johnny Hart

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73. Lonely Banna Strand

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74. “There is a man living in Mayglas by the name of Thomas Barnwell.”

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75. “Back to well beloved Ireland...”

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76. “A poor boy one time went out to seek his fortune. ”

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 002 — Archival Reference

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