Excerpts from an interview with Felix Randles and Ettie Randles about past Irish country life. For this interview's catalogue entry click here
Description
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 priest to bless the land or the cows.
Excerpt 3: Piseogs, superstition about butter and never being able to get cream.
Excerpt 4: A version of the Bridget Cleary story.
Excerpt 5: Stories about Doonass Well and cures for blindness.
Excerpt 6: Funeral customs about men having to wear a dead man's suit for going to mass a number of Sundays after the death.
Excerpt 7: Funeral customs; story about a woman who slept near her dead husband at his wake and lived to 105.
Excerpt 8: How Ettie Randle's grandmother had a prayer cure to stop bleeding.
Excerpt 9: Foodways: Making hay boxes to keep dinners warm or cooked during the war years.
Excerpt 10: Foodways: Making sawdust drums to keep dinners warm or cooked during the war years when there was no electricity or gas.
Excerpt 11: Foodways: Killing and butchering pigs and making black pudding.
Excerpt 12: Foodways: using potato juice as barm instead of milk to make bread; a recipe for making boxty.
Excerpt 13: Weddings and Matchmaking.
Excerpt 14: About a wedding in 1906 where the main fare was goose and rice with raisins. Rice was considered a luxury then.
Excerpt 15: Song: An Crúiscin Lán.
Excerpt 16: Recitation: The Tax on Old Bachelors, a poem by Seba Smith (1833)
Excerpt 2: Piseogs, superstitions about spells or people working piseogs on sick cows and getting holy water or the priest to bless the land or the cows.
Excerpt 3: Piseogs, superstition about butter and never being able to get cream.
Excerpt 4: A version of the Bridget Cleary story.
Excerpt 5: Stories about Doonass Well and cures for blindness.
Excerpt 6: Funeral customs about men having to wear a dead man's suit for going to mass a number of Sundays after the death.
Excerpt 7: Funeral customs; story about a woman who slept near her dead husband at his wake and lived to 105.
Excerpt 8: How Ettie Randle's grandmother had a prayer cure to stop bleeding.
Excerpt 9: Foodways: Making hay boxes to keep dinners warm or cooked during the war years.
Excerpt 10: Foodways: Making sawdust drums to keep dinners warm or cooked during the war years when there was no electricity or gas.
Excerpt 11: Foodways: Killing and butchering pigs and making black pudding.
Excerpt 12: Foodways: using potato juice as barm instead of milk to make bread; a recipe for making boxty.
Excerpt 13: Weddings and Matchmaking.
Excerpt 14: About a wedding in 1906 where the main fare was goose and rice with raisins. Rice was considered a luxury then.
Excerpt 15: Song: An Crúiscin Lán.
Excerpt 16: Recitation: The Tax on Old Bachelors, a poem by Seba Smith (1833)
Date
09/05/1981
Identifier
UCCFEA_SR00041_WAVC
Collection
Citation
“Excerpts from an interview with Felix Randles and Ettie Randles about past Irish country life. For this interview's catalogue entry click here,” UCCFEA, accessed April 30, 2024, http://epu.ucc.ie/folklore/items/show/459.