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Location: Carlow town
A nostalgic reverie about the town, places and people.

Location: Carlow south
An angry response to the brutal treatment given to a dying hero by the Black and Tans; reflects the anger and disgust with which the people viewed these 'soldiers'.

Location: Carlow north
A comic description of how a local man acquired a wife!

Location: Carlow north
John adopts the persona of a sad and lonely emigrant as he wistfully remembers his native place at Christmas.

The recitation recounts the awful and traumatic events when four local youths, John Murphy, and brothers James, John and Eddie Doran, along with four other youths, were drowned in Doolin Bay They were attending the Lisdoonvarna Festival on july 31st…

Féach ar ‘Nature Lost’ do’n leagan Béarla
Tá go leor de na fuaimeanna a bhí coitianta in Éirinn anois ag fáil bháis nó imithe. Tá damáiste déanta againn don Dúlra agus ar an gcaoi sin táimid ag déanamh damáiste dúinn féin agus…

Tá go leor de na fuaimeanna a bhí coitianta in Éirinn anois ag fáil bháis nó imithe. Tá damáiste déanta againn don Dúlra agus ar an gcaoi sin táimid ag déanamh damáiste dúinn féin agus dár n-Oidhreacht Nádúrtha. Mura ndéanaimid…

The song narrates the horrible story of one aspect of the heartless colonial system, where helpless orphans were abused and seen as breeding animals at the behest of the aristocracy.

Eddie McDonald of Clonmore is one of the key collectors of old Carlow pieces, as well as the host for one of the oldest Rambling House sessions.

Location: South , especiall mount Leinster area.
One of the loveliest old Irish love songs, and from Carlow!
Many versions of the song have been written over the centuries; this is one of the loveliest .