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Location: County
1944 was the greatest year, to date, for Gaelic football in Carlow

Location: Carlow county, Carlow west
The poem tells of the sadness of the exile

An account of an incident in 1798, another version of 'The Croppy boy'

Bhí ár sinsear i dtiúin le timthriallta na bliana. Anois is féidir na héin agus a gcuid amhrán a nascadh le hamanna áirithe den bhliain. Canann roinnt éan, cosúil leis an spideog, ar feadh na bliana. Ní mór dúinn am a thógáil ónár…

Tá ceol an spideog lán le spiorad
In aghaidh an Geimhreadh fuar is garbh,
I mbéal an stoirm is gaoithe searbh
Tá geall an aimsir deas le teacht.

Is guth an londubh fógra an Earraigh,
Laethanta deas ag teacht ar ais;
Aoibhinn do Fionn, is…

Féach ar an leagan Béarla, When Robin Sings

Féach ar an leagan Béarla, In Winter Dawn

Location: Carlow west
Seamus remembers life as a collier and some sights of Rossmore, before having to emigrate when the works closed

There’s many a place in Ireland of fame and great renown
And there’s one of them so dear to me quite near…

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

The poem describes the characters and goings-on at a local ball.
From the Seamus Murphy collection.