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The Main Manuscript Collection

This collection includes every aspect of the Irish oral tradition. New volumes are added on a regular basis. More information

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  1. (no title)

    “If you are poor be sure no freedom take.”

    CBÉ 0481

    Lore

    9 December 1937

    Risteard Ó Meadóg

  2. (no title)

    “There's a farmers place near the cross of Carrig...”

    CBÉ 0481

    Lore

    15 December 1937

    Risteard Ó Meadóg

  3. (no title)

    “About seventy years ago Boyce of Bannow was in full swing an' everybody was in dread of him.”

    CBÉ 0576

    Lore

    10 July 1938

    Risteard Ó Meadóg

  4. (no title)

    “A man named Jim Stafford of Cullenstown was tellin me when I was a chap about a vessel that was smugglin'.”

    CBÉ 0576

    Lore

    16 July 1938

    Risteard Ó Meadóg

  5. (no title)

    “I remember a very bad storm in 1882 an' a vessel got into trouble off Cullenstown, all the hands was on the poop deck...”

    CBÉ 0576

    Lore

    22 July 1938

    Risteard Ó Meadóg

  6. (no title)

    “There was a fool wan time an' anytime he'd get money he'd hide it in a hole in the ditch.”

    CBÉ 0576

    Lore

    8 August 1938

    Risteard Ó Meadóg

  7. (no title)

    “When you see a fern as long as the handle of a spoon...”

    CBÉ 0576

    Lore

    9 August 1938

    Risteard Ó Meadóg

  8. (no title)

    “When I was young a gang of men would rapin' hooks used to gather outside the chapel gate every Sunday in the harvest after Mass...”

    CBÉ 0576

    Lore

    12 August 1938

    Risteard Ó Meadóg

  9. (no title)

    “Fifty or sixty years ago people used to make their own candles.”

    CBÉ 0576

    Lore

    14 August 1938

    Risteard Ó Meadóg