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Location: Carlow south
A story of a true local event, with tragic result.

Recorded in Carlow
This old piece tells how a ship's carpenter resolved his marital difficulties, apparently with mutual consent!

Author: D. Barron
Air: Táim i mo Shuí

Táim i mo Shuí: I am sitting. The pace and complexity of our modern world is often too much for us. The distress and strain of life fragments our sense of wellbeingng; our human nature is dismembered. We…

Location: South Carlow, East Carlow
Each poem informs of very different activities, one of the pious actions of the Pattern / Patron and the other of the somewhat less religious or heroic actions associated with the Hiring day!

Is amhrán é England's Motorway faoin bhfear Éireannach as baile agus oidhreacht a thógáil i gcloch. Bhí cultúr na hÉireann ar cheann de thraidisiún béil agus rinneadh an chuid is mó d'fhoirgnimh sa ré Cheilteach as adhmad. Mar sin féin,…

Lean Fionn le éad na leannáin óg ar rian na leapacha cloiche;
B’é Ogham an scríbhinn is luaithe, inscríofa ar bhata nó cloch;
Bhí cócaireacht do deoch no féasta déanta le cloiche dóite;
Tá scéal ár nanamacha ársa storáilte i…

Féach ar an leagan Béarla, The Secrets of thew Stones.

Location: Carlow County
The story of a young 'buck' who has a rakish attitude towards the girls and their interest in him.

Nancy Sheil supplied this song, written by John O'Reilly from near Arklow, County Wicklow, about a lovestruck young man who had to leave his love to earn his fortune before returning to marry her.
The second version is sung by the author, John…

Location: Central East
An old man, now in America,fondly remembers Rathoe.