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The Main Manuscript Collection
CBÉ 0618 (Part 2)

Volume: CBÉ 0618 (Part 2)

Date

1938–1938

Collector

Micheál Mac Áodha

Location

Bannow, Co. Wexford

Titles (34)

1. The Streams of Bunclody

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2. “You Wexford men, you Wexford men, I'm sorry for to say...”

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3. “There was a woman wan time an' she had a daughter, a fine strong hardy girl.”

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4. “There was two men goin' to the fair of Carlow, the onion fair t'was called...”

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5. “Some farmers make their own ropes out of binder twine.”

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6. “I often heard me father tellin' that when he was a chap his job used to be to go where a man 'id be ploughin...”

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7. “Forty or fifty year ago ball alleys used to have mud flures an' no back wall or side walls.”

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8. The Green Volunteers

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9. Carrig Hill

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10. “Thirty or forty years ago the farmers used to "scour" the ditches to keep the fields well fenced.”

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11. “As I lay me down to sleep, To God I give my soul to keep.”

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12. “About fifty year ago there was a very soople man livin' in Brendane name Matty Colfer.”

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13. “There was a well at Burnsides of Cullenstown called the Malachin an' t'was a blessed well.”

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14. “There was a very bad landlord in Rosegarland wan time name Lee.”

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15. “Years ago children used to stick a furze bush in the ground on May Day and cover it would flowers...”

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16. Brennan on the Moor

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17. The Rose of Mooncoin

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18. “There was a man wan time an he was very mean an miserly, an' he used to be afraid to carry any money around...”

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19. “Two misers met wan day, wan was a young fella about eighteen an t'other was near seventy.”

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20. “On Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, children go from house to house collecting eggs.”

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21. “About sixty years ago there was a lot a Protestants livin in Loughnageer...”

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22. “Franey the Robber was out very late wan night an he tired, an' could an hungry an no place to go.”

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23. “There was a lovely lady all in her youth an' bloom.”

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24. Bold Robert Emmet

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25. Father Tom Ó Néill

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26. “Ireland the land of the Harp and the Shamrock. Ireland the land of the true and the good.”

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27. The Arnestown Wedding

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28. “A farmer named Parle from Ballyhealy, Kilmore, was at the fair of Waterford...”

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29. “There is a man lives in our land...”

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30. “Long ago people used to believe that if you heard the cuckoo when she'd come in April you wouldn't die during the year.”

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31. “In the year of '91 a terrible sight was seen.”

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32. “There was a farmer from Kilmore in Wexford would a load of corn wan day...”

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33. “A man named Whelan lived on the Hill of Kileaven over a hundred years ago...”

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34. “In Bargy an Forth when people are at their dinner the kitchen dure is always closed no matter how warm the day may be.”

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0618, Page 193 — Archival Reference

The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0618, Page 193

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