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Excerpts from an interview with Felix Randles and Ettie Randles about past Irish country life. For this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: Piseogs, superstitions about findings eggs in haggard that a neighbour would have put there so nothing would grow.
Excerpt 2: Piseogs, superstitions about spells or people working piseogs on sick cows and getting holy water or the…
Excerpt 2: Piseogs, superstitions about spells or people working piseogs on sick cows and getting holy water or the…
Excerpts from an interview with Patrick O’ Brien about country life in the first half of the twentieth century. For this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: Changes in working in the bog to cut turf.
Excerpt 2: Going to Cattle markets and fairs in Rathkeel and Listowel.
Excerpt 3: Bigger fairs in Listowel the dealing in cattle.
Excerpt 4: Employment, hiring fairs and working…
Excerpt 2: Going to Cattle markets and fairs in Rathkeel and Listowel.
Excerpt 3: Bigger fairs in Listowel the dealing in cattle.
Excerpt 4: Employment, hiring fairs and working…
Excerpts from an interview with Mrs O' Brien about country life in the first half of the twentieth century For this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: Platform dances in the summer and farmhouse dances in the winter.
Excerpt 2: About House dances and card games to raise money for Christmas; the main game was 41. The activity was called 'the gambles'
Excerpt 3: Preparing for the…
Excerpt 2: About House dances and card games to raise money for Christmas; the main game was 41. The activity was called 'the gambles'
Excerpt 3: Preparing for the…
Excerpts from an interview with Margaret Maher, Geraldine Cronin, Angela O’ Donoghue and Maureen Conty about urban folktales. For this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: Woman who found a lizard in her stomach in Greece.
Excerpt 2: Woman who found a snake in her stomach in Turkey.
Excerpt 3: Modern Legend: Cats in a Chinese restaurant in Dublin.
Excerpt 4: Modern Legend: Dogs in a Chinese…
Excerpt 2: Woman who found a snake in her stomach in Turkey.
Excerpt 3: Modern Legend: Cats in a Chinese restaurant in Dublin.
Excerpt 4: Modern Legend: Dogs in a Chinese…
Excerpts from an interview with Eilish de Barra about the informal economy of Cork's Northside. For this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: About Pawnshops, their symbolism and their necessary role when men were put on slackage for a week.
Excerpt 2: Occasionally the pawnshop would lend back a suit for no money to be paid off the week after.
Excerpt 3: Buy very cheap…
Excerpt 2: Occasionally the pawnshop would lend back a suit for no money to be paid off the week after.
Excerpt 3: Buy very cheap…
Excerpts from an interview with Karen, Liz and Tracy about the informal economy of Cork's Northside. For this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: About Didlums and informal economy.
Excerpt 2: About the informal economy.
Excerpt 3: Getting loans from a Manage.
Excerpt 4: Financial difficulties and the use of the informal economy in factories.
Excerpt 5: Reasons for not…
Excerpt 2: About the informal economy.
Excerpt 3: Getting loans from a Manage.
Excerpt 4: Financial difficulties and the use of the informal economy in factories.
Excerpt 5: Reasons for not…
Excerpts from an interview with Denis McGarry about Blazon Populaire and heroic fallout in Cork Northside sporting ballads. For this interview's catalogue entry click here
Excerpt 1: Song Holyhill About sports on the Northside of Cork city (original composition)
Excerpt 2: Memories and opinions About the urbanisation of Hollyhill and the compulsory purchase orders which transformed the rural environment.
Excerpt…
Excerpt 2: Memories and opinions About the urbanisation of Hollyhill and the compulsory purchase orders which transformed the rural environment.
Excerpt…
Excerpts from an interview with Joan Spriggs about divorce. For this interview's catalogue entry click here.
Excerpt 1: About the Millfield cottages built for the Sunbeam workers.
Excerpt 2: Emigration narrative.
Excerpt 3: About the mother working full time and raising a family with an alcoholic husband.
Excerpt 4: Opinion about unmarried mothers…
Excerpt 2: Emigration narrative.
Excerpt 3: About the mother working full time and raising a family with an alcoholic husband.
Excerpt 4: Opinion about unmarried mothers…
Excerpts from an interview with Michael Moynihan about the belief in fairy forts. For this interview's catalogue entry click here.
Excerpt 1: About two connected forts in Ballingeary, one sold to the county council by the landowner.
Excerpt 2: How a man and his wife died after the fort they sold to the council was knocked down.
Excerpt 3: Connections with Mythology and how…
Excerpt 2: How a man and his wife died after the fort they sold to the council was knocked down.
Excerpt 3: Connections with Mythology and how…
Excerpts from an interview with James Canty about urban folktales. For more clips from this interview click here.
Excerpt 1: About Earc Luachra (lizards) the Irish equivalent of tapeworm. How they get in your body and how to get rid of them.
Excerpt 2: Legend about fairy forts; a young woman went too near and got marked for life.
Excerpt 3: Legend and…
Excerpt 2: Legend about fairy forts; a young woman went too near and got marked for life.
Excerpt 3: Legend and…