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Location: County Carlow
Tommy marks the excitement of the great era of Carlow football in the 1940s.

Location: South Carlow
Luke remembers growing up in Danganbeg and the activities and memories of the people.

Location: Central East
An old man, now in America,fondly remembers Rathoe.

Nancy Sheil supplied this song, written by John O'Reilly from near Arklow, County Wicklow, about a lovestruck young man who had to leave his love to earn his fortune before returning to marry her.
The second version is sung by the author, John…

Location: Carlow County
The story of a young 'buck' who has a rakish attitude towards the girls and their interest in him.

Féach ar an leagan Béarla, The Secrets of thew Stones.

Lean Fionn le éad na leannáin óg ar rian na leapacha cloiche;
B’é Ogham an scríbhinn is luaithe, inscríofa ar bhata nó cloch;
Bhí cócaireacht do deoch no féasta déanta le cloiche dóite;
Tá scéal ár nanamacha ársa storáilte i…

Is amhrán é England's Motorway faoin bhfear Éireannach as baile agus oidhreacht a thógáil i gcloch. Bhí cultúr na hÉireann ar cheann de thraidisiún béil agus rinneadh an chuid is mó d'fhoirgnimh sa ré Cheilteach as adhmad. Mar sin féin,…

Location: South Carlow, East Carlow
Each poem informs of very different activities, one of the pious actions of the Pattern / Patron and the other of the somewhat less religious or heroic actions associated with the Hiring day!

Author: D. Barron
Air: Táim i mo Shuí

Táim i mo Shuí: I am sitting. The pace and complexity of our modern world is often too much for us. The distress and strain of life fragments our sense of wellbeingng; our human nature is dismembered. We…