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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:About Parafin oil lamps Excerpt 2:Parafin oil lamps used in circuses Excerpt 3:Sacred heart lamps Excerpt 4: Lamps used in parlours in the early 20th century Excerpt 5: People making candle type of lamps Excerpt 6:Taylors' lights…

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 1: The bridges that mark the Northside

Excerpt 2: The locations of pigeon clubs

Excerpt 3: political affiliations in families

Excerpt 4: An older form of neighbourhood watch in Churchfield to prevent crime

Excerpt 5: About…

Excerpt 1: Supportive rivalry in sport

Excerpt 2: Rivalry stays on the pitch, everyone goes drinking together after the match

Excerpt 3: About high unemployment in the early 80s

Excerpt 4: Story about not getting a job because of one's…

Excerpt 1: About being sent to buy tripe and drisheen in Ballymacthomas

Excerpt 2: Ballymacthomas people having stalls in the coak quay

Excerpt 3: Mary Sheehan's mother 's recipe for drisheen

Excerpt 4: About their house being a social…

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…

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: 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 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…