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Location Carlow south
The poem explores the link between love and love of country

Location: Carlow south
Mikey, a famous character in his own right, pays tribute to his friend and famous character, Jim Nolan

Location: Carlow south
John pays tribute to the famous storyteller, Jim Nolan

Location: Carlow south
Fr. McCarthy remembers the pleasant sites of south Carlow, as well as some anger at the centuries of oppression

A local view of the heroic sacrifice made by a local hero in his struggle to help his people in 1798.

In the county of Carlow two rebels were slaughtered
Two brave Irish heroes who loved Erin dear
With the guns of the British that they lent Dick Mulcahy
They were both assassinated at Carthy’s of Shean.

That beautiful mountain looks down over…

Location: Carlow County
Another song in praise of Kevin Barry, written by MCN of Borris

Come boys let us follow the fox
No more we’ll be called lazy grunters;
We’ll hunt him through mountains and rocks
For we are the jolly fox hunters.

We’ll rise him at six in the morn;
I’ll hold ten to one that we’ll kill him;
If Lang…

Early, early last Thursday night
The Myshall cavalry gave me a fright:
In my misfortune and sad downfall
I was prisoner taken by Cornwall.

In his guardhouse there I was tried
And in his parlour my sentence tried’
My sentence passed and…