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Limerick Ireland: Singing in Irish With digital objects
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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 15

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 15

Speech: Untitled [About SE's home place, Baile Sheamais / Jamestown; his father and forebears lived in the Naul; ancestors came originally from Scotland; an ancestor had been a stable-boy in Scotland and had eloped with the daughter of his master and with her jewels; with those riches they bought a farm in the Naul; introduction to the next song, one that was sung by SE's grandfather only after dinner on Christmas Day]
Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 23

Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 336 [sound recording] / [various performers]. Track 23

Speech: Untitled [Information about the tune just played; in the old days it was banned by the clergy because a priest was delayed through listening to the song while on his way to a sick call; the song was performed by the devil in the form of a young woman milking a cow; story about Saint Patrick and the devil; the tune just played is the melody of a song sung by Cait Ni Mhuimhneachain of Beal Atha an Ghaorthaigh / Ballingeary, Co Cork; some of the words of that song]
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