The Streams of Bunclody

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Seanchas

5 December 1938

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

6 December 1938

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

6 February 1939

Séamus Wade

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

4 February 1939

Séamus Wade

(gan teideal)

“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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Seanchas

12 January 1939

Padraig Mach Aodha

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

16 January 1939

Séamus Wade

The Green Volunteers

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Seanchas

18 January 1939

Seán Ó Néill

Carrig Hill

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Seanchas

20 January 1939

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

25 January 1939

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

30 January 1939

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

1 February 1939

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

3 February 1938

Seán Ó Murchadha

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

4 February 1939

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

8 February 1939

Séamus Wade

Brennan on the Moor

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Seanchas

7 February 1939

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh

The Rose of Mooncoin

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Seanchas

2 March 1939

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh

Mooncoin, Co. Kilkenny

(gan teideal)

“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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Seanchas

7 March 1939

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

10 March 1939

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

13 March 1939

Siobhán Bean Uí Bhroin

(gan teideal)

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

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Seanchas

14 March 1939

Séamus Ó Ceallaigh