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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: Nostalgic remarks About not listening to the local poet Sean O' Callaghan when he was alive Includes a verse of the Lloyd George song

Excerpt 2: About Sean O' Callaghan's way of composing songs

Excerpt 3: About the writing of 'The…

Excerpt 1: Context introduction to the reconstruction of the women's gaol song

Excerpt 2: The Gaol of Sundays Well, sung to the tune of the Jolly Beggarman

Excerpt 3: Background and song The Poor Fairhill Boy sang to the tune of Jonny Jump…

Description Excerpt 1: About renting a house in Green lane and the tenant-landlord relationship from1930s til the 1960s.Excerpt 2: About 'orders', which was a local name for money lending, a side business run by landlords.Excerpt 3: About always…

Excerpt 1:About the differences between boring mass and interesting mass. It all depends on the priest who is saying it. Excerpt 2: About the teaching of religion at school.Excerpt 3: About what happens when you die.Excerpt 4: About Heaven and…

Excerpt 1: Ideas of Heaven and Hell.Excerpt 2: About Church and State and abortion (the 8th amendment).Excerpt 3: Opinion About young people's attitude towards sex. Excerpt 4: Opinion About Divorce. Excerpt 5: About allowing marriage for priests,…

Excerpt 1: Unplanned pregnancy and enforced marriage as reasons to vote yes in the divorce referendum.

Excerpt 2: Accessibility to divorce will be easier for the rich.

Excerpt 3: Accessibility to divorce easier for the rich 'write to the pope…

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 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 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…