Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0055
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“Ora Wirus thruagh, but it was the ould people could tell the yarns.”
Ora Wirus thruagh, but it was the ould people could tell the yarns. Sure the chraythurs, that growing up now devila heed it all they have in agood ghosht yarn, an' they wouldn't lishten to a fairy tale, I don't know fots comin' over the world at all. They ushed ta always say that ould Ireland was aquare ould place long ago, but if yew ask me me opinion on the matther I'll say its adamn sight aquarer place at the preshent time.
Imind when Iwas ayoung lad the ould people id gether in, an' they'd sit round the fire, thryin ta besht wan anether at tellin sthories, an' maybe it would be up ta(continues on next page)