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Excerpt 1: Industrialisation of Cork city in the mid-1940s

Excerpt 2: Leaving school at 14 during the 1940s

Excerpt 3: women's work in Cork city in the 1940s

Excerpt 4: Cinema going in the 1940s and 50s; stealing jars from cemeteries to sell…

Excerpt 1: Harriers Clubs on the Northside of Cork city

Excerpt 2: The making of the scent for drag hunting

Excerpt 3: using horseflesh to make up the drag

Excerpt 4: grading dogs for drag hunting

Excerpt 5: training puppy dogs for…

Excerpt 1: Naming traditional meat cuts; foodways

Excerpt 2: Eating traditional meats growing up in the 1950s

Excerpt 3: Changes and gentrification on Shandon street

Excerpt 4: Changes and gentrification on Shandon street

Excerpt 5:…

Excerpt 1: Leaving school at 14 and going into work

Excerpt 2: Engagement was for the rich

Excerpt 3: Dowries and matches;

Excerpt 4: Marital violence and breakups in the late 1980s, before divorce, was legal.

Excerpt 1: Pulley Lamps to lights shops or big places

Excerpt 2: Tilly and Aladdin Lamps

Excerpt 3: Snuffers to trim candle wicks

Excerpt 4: Memories of people making makeshift lamps during wartime

Excerpt 5: Religious custom of Easter…

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: 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: Narrative on how Whether's Well got its name

Excerpt 2: Calendar customs: paying the rounds at Wether's Well

Excerpt 3: Miracle cures at Wether's Well

Excerpt 4: Difference between locals and tourists visiting the well

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Excerpt 1: Narrative about someone run a bulldozer through a Lios in Leitrim and his land moved, slid into the next valley.

Excerpt 2: The biggest Lios in Granrioch near Teereltonand how the Ceol Si used to be heard announcing death.

Excerpt 3:…

Excerpt 1: How st Finbarr gave the name to Gougane Barra.

Excerpt 2: St Finbarr's parents, his father from Connacht and his mother from Bandon.

Excerpt 3: What st Finbarre looked like and why he wore a beard to keep him warm during the…