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Location: Carlow south
Luke wrote this to celebrate the Rangers hurling success in 2006

Theme: Pride in place, recitation by M.C. Nolan

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

Location: Carlow south
A description of a day's hunting that yielded little enough game.

Location: Borris area.
MCN was from the Borris area. The poem is a simple prayer of trust in God.

Location: South Carlow, Myshall area
The men were slain during the Irish civil War in 1922, at Shean, near Myshall. It seems fitting to have both poems side by side.

The roll is called, Big Jim is gone, his voice we’ll hear no more,
But his name is etched forever on the pages of folklore.
For those who knew this gentle giant, he was an easy friend to love
And on Good Friday evening Jim was called to Heaven…

Location: South Carlow, especially the Mount Leinster area.
Eddie wrote this as a mark of respect for his good friend Jim Nolan, the well-known storyteller from Ballinrush, Myshall.

Location: South, Barrow valley
While people in Newfoundland claim ownership of this song, it is more likely that it was brought to Newfoundland by emigrants from the south Carlow area.

Location: All county, especially north-east and Borris area.
MCN reflects admiration for a hero-martyr as well as anger at the treatment meted out to Kevin Barry just before his execution. Being from the south of the county, this shows the…