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Traditional Songs, poems, and stories
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Unite For Peace
Author: PJ Furey
Carlow County
Furey PJ
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Traditional Songs, poems, and stories
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The Holy Family
Author: PJ Furey
Carlow County
Furey PJ
Religion
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Traditional Songs, poems, and stories
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Jim Nolan
Author: John Candy
Performed by John Candy
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John wrote this eulogy about a great local, and national, character, Jim Nolan of Ballinrush, Myshall, County Carlow.
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The roll is called, Big Jim is gone, his voice we’ll hear no more,
But his name is etched forever on the pages of folklore.
For those who knew this gentle giant, he was an easy friend to love
And on Good Friday evening Jim was called to Heaven above.
As day broke over Myshall the sad news quickly spread
That Jim Nolan he had passed away and a thousand tears were shed.
The supreme storyteller, he was known both far and wide
And Carlow lost a legend the day Jim Nolan died.
Jim was born in October Nineteen Twenty Two,
The year Ireland gained its freedom, with Michael collins and his cfrew.
Now Jim grew up in Myshall and as he reached a certain age
His talents they were plain to see and he was lured on to the stage.
As an actor he was brilliant and his stories they did flow,
He even featured on RTE with Gay Byrne on the Late Late Show.
Jim lived and farmed in Ballinrush the place where he grew up,
There he wrote about the young man who was ‘The real sure sign of a Pup’!
He told us about Binty McGuire, who was tied down when he was dead,
When someone cut the rope at his wake and binty shot up in the bed.
Ah yes, his stories they were magic, they were better than vintage wine
To hear Jim and his sister Bridie declare that they would ‘sign on the dotted line’.
Now, Jim Nolan was a gentleman, we will all agree on that,
With his big broad smile, his walking cane, his pipe and his auld hat.
He could brighten up any story house whether in sunshine or in rain
And, believe me, we will never see the likes of Jim again.
So, Big Jim, we will remember you, as the years go rolling by
For the pleasure that you gave us Jim, your name will never die.
And as we gaze on your beloved Mt. Leinster with its heather, gorse and bush
May you rest in peace forever, Big Jim from Ballinrush.
Carlow County
Carlow South
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New Songs with New Airs
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Two Will Do
Author: Mickey Rice
Singer: Mickey Rice
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Mickey narrates an adventure he had and an encounter with the Gardaí. In our current climate perhaps we should change the title to NONE Will Do!!!
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Twas a Saturday in October in 1983
Just another Saturday or so it seemed to be;
But that day has made history which was very sad:
It was the day that Mickey Rice blew in the plastic bag.
It was down in Ballinabranna that we all worked hard all day,
We were getting out potatoes and drinking mugs of ‘tay’.
In the evening I came home full of muck and clay,
Says the wife’ Now go and get a drink, it’s been a long hard day’.
So down to the grove I did go as happy as could be.
I met an old acquaintance, ‘twas Billy Motley.
Says Motley ‘have you got the car?’ I had sure as a rule.
So we sailed away to Crettyard and on to the Salmon Pool.
Now we stayed there for quite a while then we drive on to Cainesbridge;
We drank away ‘til closing time then headed for the ridge.
Coming down along the hill a light shone in the sky,
It was from a white Granada and it pulled up closely by.
Now I opened up the fly window and the guard put in his nose.
He says ‘You have drink taken, too much I suppose’.
He handed me a plastic bag, the smallest ever seen.
He says ‘Now blow in that until you turn it green’.
As you know I turned it green, he says ‘now step out, please,
You must leave your friend behind and please give me the keys’.
Says Motley ‘Don’t you worry Mick, everything will be alright’.
So they took me to Kilkenny as the stars were shining bright.
The doctor he was waiting and he read for me the rules.
He says ‘You can give me blood, or urine if you choose’.
So he handed me a bottle and I filled it to the top
And he put my name upon the cap in case it would get lost.
It was in Castlecomer court my license I did lose.
I got 12 month’s suspension for drinking too much booze.
Now I have my license back the truth I’ll tell to you:
Whenever you go drinking boys, remember TWO WILL DO!
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Traditional Songs, poems, and stories
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Yesterday's Men
Author Dave (Blue) Kinsella
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It was Jimmy from union that gave us the news
They were closing our factory down.
You could see it all there in the eyes of my mates,
The anger, the sadness, the fear.
Like our fathers before us they worked there with pride,
You could tell there was bitterness burning inside.
Farewell my companions, my friends, my workmates,
Farewell to the pay-day, the pints, and the craic,
For we gave it our best days and they paid us back
By making us ‘Yesterday’s Men’.
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Dave (Blue) Kinsella rembers and records the shock, sorrow and anger when the Sugar Factory was closed, bringing to an end the local industry that provided work for generations of Carlovians in farming, transporting and manufacturing the sugar.
County Carlow
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Christmas Wishes
Author: Seamus Kavanagh
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In this poem, Seamus explores the real meaning of goodwill that underpins the Christmas message and the ancient, traditional hope for the new year.
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Christmas Wishes
May the peace of ten thousand Christmases
Be with you this crazy year
With a season free from worry
And a mind that holds no fear.
May you follow every dream
And never need a star,
May the lights dispel the darkness,
So you’re proud of who you are.
May the Santa of your childhood
Set your spirit free
With happiness wrapped in hope,
Beneath the Christmas tree!
May the joy that Christmas brings,
Stay forever by your side,
May you always have the strength,
To take life in your stride.
May Christmas bring you closer,
To those who hold your heart
May love provide the glue,
That will never let you part.
May you make a million memories,
That will forever with you stay
May you regain the innocence
That may have gone astray.
May your Christmas be amazing,
Filled with laughter love and cheer
And you’ll have some left over,
To last you through the year
In a now uncertain world
My Christmas wish for you
Good health, love and laughter,
For these will see you through.
Carlow East
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The Games We Played
Author: Seamus Kavanagh
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Poet Seamus Kavanagh remembers the games of his boyhood. days on the Carlow - Wicklow border.
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Among the rocks near "Miley's"
We had our own "Wild West"
Tom Mix, Roy Rogers And Hop Along,
Were the heroes we love best.
With wooden guns and steady aim,
We hardly ever missed,
As we shot down all the outlaws,
Upon the " Wanted List".
But when the "Leathers Echo"
Sounded near the hall,
The notes of the pied piper,
Had not a sweeter call.
The sheep were the spectators,
The ditch the Hogan Stand,
And Keogh's dog the leader,
As we walked behind the band!
We kicked, we ran, we scored,
We didn't have a care
And each took turns to commentate.
Just like Micheal O Hehir.
We fished for trout in the "Tinker's Brook"
When the Summer stream was low,
While in the drifts of Winter,
We tracked rabbits in the snow.
With piece of stick and bicycle wheel,
We could roam the world o'er,
No hill too high no sea too deep,
That we could not explore.
When the cuckoo called and swallow came,
We searched every tree and bush,
And each of us could tell the nest.
Of blackbird, wren or thrush.
We picked chestnuts in the Autumn
Searched for frogspawn in the Spring
And when the "Frockens" ripened,
It was then we ate our fill!
Among the ferns at " Hide and Seek"
It was the girls against the boys,
We now had grown much older
And outgrown all our toys.
Love it bloomed and hearts were broke,
As we learned how to grow
And you I sought and sometimes found
When did I let you go?
Carlow County
Carlow East
Pride in Place
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New Songs written to old Celtic Melodies
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The Keepers of the Flame
(Air: The Bantry Girl’s Lament)
Author: Dave Barron
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The Oral Tradition was central to how our Irish Culture was passed from one generation to the next. The stories, songs and poems that illustrated our Way of Life and our Cultural beliefs were repeated at social events, heard, modified and passed from one generation to the next. The local Rambling House sessions were a key element of that Oral Tradition.
Sadly, the OT is now under threat from our modern social media. Our modern culture is shaped by influences that emanate from places, known and unknown, across the world; the values of our ancestors are diluted or dissolved. The moral framework that shaped and supported our Irish way of life is under serious threat.
Now more than ever we need the Culture Framework and those who keep it alive.
The song reflects on that Oral Tradition and its importance. It particularly remembers Eddie MacDonald of Clonmore, County Carlow, who successfully promoted and maintained the Rambling House tradition. Ar dheis Dé go raibh Eddie.
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Long, long ago ancestral lore was passed on orally;
The spark to light the Cultural Fire was lit in family
And local neighbours and the clan, all warmed to that same Flame
And so all came to act the same, all Keepers of the Flame.
Ár gcultúr úr, ó ghlúin go glúin, trí Coimeádaí ár scéal.
That Cultural Fire, fanned into flame, became our Irish Way,
So strong it burned Norse and Norman adopted Irish ways;
Seanchaí and Bard, they were the stars who tended to the Flame;
They told the stories of our race, the Keepers of the Flame.
Ár gcultúr úr, ó ghlúin go glúin, trí Coimeádaí ár scéal.
Queen Liza knew the part they played, how Bards maintained the Flame;
Her empire tried to quench our Flame, to their eternal shame;
But by fireside on Rambling Nights our Culture still was safe:
The singers and the Fear an Tigh, all Keepers of the Flame.
Ár gcultúr úr, ó ghlúin go glúin, trí Coimeádaí ár scéal.
How can we keep the Flame today, with new technology?
The button we press will answer all quests, from AI to Zoology;
But AI and facts need more than that: they need a cultural frame:
We need to maintain our Cultural Flame and the Keepers of the Flame.
Ár gcultúr úr, ó ghlúin go glúin, trí Coimeádaí ár scéal.
In old Clonmore lived such a man, McDonald was his name;
He aimed to keep the Fire aflame, not glory and not fame;
There Eddie Mac and his Rambling House all kept the Fire aflame,
Now Eddie’s gone, he’s joined the throng, the Keepers of the Flame.
Yes, Eddie’s passed to Heaven’s host of Keepers of the Flame.
Carlow East
Local Character
Pride in Place
Social Comment
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Traditional Songs, poems, and stories
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The Battle of Carlow A.D. 1798
Author: W. O'N. possibly Slieve Margy?
From The Nationalist, 18/09/1897.
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The poem records the courage, motivation and fate of the hundreds who died on that terrible morning in May, 1798 when ambushed and slaughtered by English soldiers on Tullow Street in Carlow town
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A morning fair, o’erarched with skies of May,
Broke over files of men in stern array-
By wrongs made reckless – to avenge the flood –
The seething torrent of their tears and blood
By England’s hell-hounds shed. The sunbeams fell
On bounding hearts that fear could never quell,
On pikes and muskets gleaming bare and bright,
That would ere long be gore-dyed in the fight.
They silver-tipped the roofs of Carlow town,
They fell on Crosbie’s lawn and mansion down,
And far away o’er Wicklow’s hills serene
They burnished all around with radiant sheen;
And never sun shone on a braver band,
And never yet had seen the old green land
Hearts true as these for her to win renown,
And free, as free as air, each hill and town.
They gathered there from passes of Idrone,
With step of grace and lightness all their own;
From Myshal’s slopes, from Ballon and Ardoyne,
They came, with Carlow’s gallant men to join;
From Kellistown, and from the Burrin’s side,
And Tullow’s sons aglow with manly pride,
All, all combine to strike for homes and kin,
And Freedom’s glorious laurels for Ireland win.
Cheer after cheer ascends from them on high,
Those gallant hearts resolved to do or die;
With stately tread they march upon the town
And cut the foremost lines of Yeomen down.
When from each side a murderous fusillade
Poured death and havoc ‘mong their ranks dismayed.
The redcoats ambushed in each house secure
Death’s leaden messengers sent swift and sure.
Yet on they marched, their shot and shell defying,
Tho’ hundreds now upon the streets are lying
In ghastly heaps- their bravest and their best –
Their hearts and minds forever now at rest;
Hearts that with life and hope were brimming o’er
At morning’s dawn, are now, alas! no more,
Till twice three hundred men are lying dead
And Carlow’s streets are dyed a gory red.
Were Crimea’s heroes, a braver, nobler band
Than those six hundred dying for their land,
Or did they suffer a more glorious death
Before the Russian canon’s fiery breath,
Than they who fell in Freedom’s sacred cause,
Insurgents made by England’s penal laws?
Ah, no! the grandest and the noblest death
Is ‘neath the flag of Freedom and of Faith.
County Carlow
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Traditional Songs, poems, and stories
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Éire Óg - The Halcyon Years
Author : Tony Malone
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Tony celebrates in verse the great Éire Óg team that losr the club All - Ireland final in controversial circumstances because of a strange refereeing decision in Croke Park.
Carlow County
Carlow Town
Sporting Hero