(gan teideal)

“During the course of the evening Mac Donald made a passing reference to Moll Anthony, the fairy-woman of Kildare...”

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1938

Edward Ó Toole, Frank Mac Donald

Wake Games

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1938

Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“Patrick Kavanagh's father had two dogs, one a whole spaniel, and the other a half-spaniel.”

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1938

Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“Patrick Kavanagh, the miller, was a road contractor.”

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1938

Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“A very big flood rose in Cloneygall district in 1881 or 1882, Mac Donald said.”

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1938

Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“Mr. Fitzgibbon, N.T., Tullow, in whose house the material was recorded on the Ediphone, told a story illustrative of the supposed foolishness of the farmers living in the Barony of Forth, Co. Wexford.”

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1938

Mr. Fitzgibbon

(gan teideal)

“A child born with a caul will go to sea.”

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1938

Mrs. Fitzgibbon

(gan teideal)

“I, Frank Mac Donald, Ballyredmond, Cloneygall, am now about to give an account of the traditions heard from me own people of the Rebellion of Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Eight.”

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29 Deireadh Fómhair 1938

Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“Mac Donald said there was a rath on top of Clonogan Hill.”

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1938

Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“Mr. O' Toole and Mac Donald had often heard a story about a young cat...”

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1938

Edward Ó Toole, Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“An old man in Ballyredmond often told the story about cats which came in to a barn...”

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1938

Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“All cats, at one time, had a nail on the end of their tail to kill rats with.”

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1938

Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“Mr. O'Toole made reference to a story which he had heard about the Hairy Puckán.”

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1938

Edward Ó Toole

(gan teideal)

“Father Keogh, Ratoa (?) was one May morning going along the road...”

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1938

Edward Ó Toole, Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“In Cloneygall district cows are always milked from the right side.”

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1938

Edward Ó Toole, Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“Mac Donald when questioned about Death customs in Cloneygall districts said that the corpse is always laid out to face the door.”

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1938

Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“In Cloneygall districts the corpse is never waked in the kitchen but always in the room.”

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1938

Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“Mac Donald said that he had attended a wake in Co. Wexford, where five candles placed in the shape of a crucifix were lighted near the corpse.”

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1938

Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“A man called Redmond was very fond of playing cards.”

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1938

Frank Mac Donald

(gan teideal)

“Mr. O'Toole then told a story about a man who played cards with the Devil one night...”

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1938

Edward Ó Toole