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Offaly Burglar 1.jpg
Location: Carlow County
Danny narrates the events of an infamous refereeing during a football game between Carlow and laois

Eire Og From Carlow town 1.jpg
Location: Carlow Town
A celebration of the great town team of the 1990s

Bobby Miller's Great Fifteen.jpg
Location: Carlow town
Tribute to the great Eire Og team of the early 1990s

The Boys of Rathnagry, W. Byrne.jpg
Location: North-east Carlow
A nostalgic piece about rural life during 'The Emergency', with some cameos of life at the time.

The Boatmen That Are Gone, Tony Malone.MP3
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.

The Beet Song 1, E. Power.jpg
Location: South Carlow
Working the beet was hard work. Here Eddie power gives the complaints from a series of 'whingers'!

The Battle of the Wheat 1.jpg
Location: County Carlow
The farmer was also a patriot, working hard to feed the people.

The Battle of Kilcumney  Teresa Malone.jpg
Location: South Carlow
The historian can give a macro description of what happened. This micro description of a 1798 local incident of bravery and defiance is remembered and saluted

The Battle of Carlow, Bill Nolan.jpg
Location: Carlow town
Poem about the massacre of the rebels in 1798, in Carlow town; more than 600 bodies were buried in the Croppies' Grave in Graiguecullen.

Teresa Malone, Mikey Byrne, Mick O'Connor.MP3
Location: South Carlow
Mikey Byrne focuses on the heroine of the fateful day in Kilcumney, 1798, as Teresa Malone showed heroism and defiance against the yeomen.
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