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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 belief…

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: Children born on St Stephen's day are always called Stephen

Excerpt 2: St Stephen's day in Cork city in the 1930s

Excerpt 3: Cork story about the origin of 'the wren'

Excerpt 4: Wren boys in Cork city

Excerpt 5: Wren boys…

Excerpt 1: St Stephen's originExcerpt 2: Older people on St Stephen's dayExcerpt 3: The hunting of the WrenExcerpt 4: Wrens would hide on St Stephen's dayExcerpt 5: Wren hunting as massacreExcerpt 6: Dead birds only on the holly bushesExcerpt 7:…

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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