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Excerpt 1: About not putting your hands in water until the new mother gets churched

Excerpt 2: Having to christen children under pressure

Excerpt 3: Discussion about the shame of unmarried (and married) pregnancy and babies given for adoption…

Excerpt 1: The use of the word Alannah in Cork Northside English

Excerpt 2: The use of the word Caboque in Cork Northside English

Excerpt 3: The use of the word flaithuil in Cork Northside English

Excerpt 4: The use of the word noodinaw in…

Excerpt 1: Farmers paying a bailiff to put pressure on tenants not to pay their rent

Excerpt 2: Tenants had no power before the moonlighters

Excerpt 3: Bigger farmers would grab the land of smaller farmers who couldn't pay the rent

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Excerpt 1: Early days of Tedna's learning bowling

Excerpt 2: First tournaments

Excerpt 3: Championships

Excerpt 4: Tedna's son Michael

Excerpt 5: Tedna's son James

Excerpt 6: Tedna's daughter Noreen winning the championship on a…

Excerpt 1: How satellite antennae have replaced druids altars in Cnoc an Fhirinne

Excerpt 2: Mythological excerpt and connection to the local landscape

Excerpt 3: Mythological and historical connections with the local people satirical comment…

Excerpt 1: Teaching family background and teacher training colleges in the 1950sExcerpt 2: His first posts as a teacher, before coming to Cork city to teach in Cathedral school in 1961Excerpt 3: Schools development in Gurranabraher and the…

Excerpt 1: About early working life socialising (in the 1930s)

Excerpt 2: About going for picnics in, Blackrock, the Marina and the fields of Ballyphehane, (the 1920s

Excerpt 3: About going to bingo in maddens buildings

Excerpt 4: Her views…

Excerpt 1: Funeral customs in the country

Excerpt 2: Graveyards around Cork city

Excerpt 3: The banshee

Excerpt 4: About evil wishing

Excerpt 5: Fairy lore, spitting on a good looking baby to protect him from the fairies

Excerpt 6:…

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…