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Location: County Carlow



CHORUS

Óro, Ár gcultúr gleoite, (our beautiful culture)

Óro, our culture’s growing,

Óro, ár gcultúr beomhar, (our living culture)

Alive and beo in Carlow. (well)

They tried to take our…

Location: West Carlow, Barrow The title says it all: looking back at a way of life and of work that are gone, the Barrow boys are no more. The author, Kit Ennis, was a lock keeper at Tinnahinch lock (Graiguenamanagh) in the 1920s.

Location: Carlow town
Mikey visited the Singers' Club in Carlow and wrote this afterwards

Theme: Fun, with a glimpse of life in the past. Song for fun written by John Hayden telling of the Carlow Farmer's Ball.

Air: MacNamara's Ball

Location: Carlow north
Recitation about the Rambling Houses tradition.

Location: Carlow south
The great storyteller gives a fun recitation about an event from the county, giving a view of traditional work on the farm, as well as some of the mischief!

Theme: Local Event
Retrospective song about the burning of the bogs of Rathnagry by the men of Carlow.

Location: Carlow east
A record of an important local event and a view of a way of life

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