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A local view of the heroic sacrifice made by a local hero in his struggle to help his people in 1798.

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan was employed for a time as a teacher in the classical Day and Boarding School of G.A. Lynch at Everton House, Graiguecullen. The poem lauds the resilience of the simple heather plant and praises the beauty of the locality.

Location: County Carlow
Luke regisrters the disgust felt throughout the country at the killings by English troops in Croke Park on 'Bloody Sunday@.

Location: Carlow south
The poem remembers the killing of two brothers by the Black and Tans, in the War of independence

Location Carlow south
The poem explores the link between love and love of country

Location: Carlow County, especially Tullow
Thomas Traynor, from Tullow, was executed because of his involvement in the 1916 rebellion. Together with Kevin Barry and eight others he was initially buried in an unmarked grave in Mountjoy.

Location: Carlow County
A love song about two lovers separated by the military term of the young man.

Location: Carlow South
Another telling of the heroism of Teresa Malone at the time of the Battle of Kilcumney in 1798

Location: Carlow south
Fr. McCarthy remembers the pleasant sites of south Carlow, as well as some anger at the centuries of oppression

Location: Carlow north
An example of the art of sarcastic lampooning in song, to damage the electoral chances of an unpopular character