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County Roscommon Folklore & Oral History Collection 2006-2016

County Roscommon Folklore & Oral History Collection 2006-2016

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COUNTY Folklore & Oral History Collection 2006-2016

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House FAMINE The Truce Banshee Political Meetings Rambling Floods Markievicz Houses

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County Roscommon Folklore & Oral History Network Black & Tans Chalk wages MEITHEAL Sunday and for threshingMessage from Chief ExecutiveLAND oats Fox Hunting Fox

Rambling Floods COMMISSION Blacksmith The County Library Service and Matchmakingthe Heritage Office of Roscommon GAA County HousesCouncil are proud supporters of the work of the Folklore & Oral History Network since 2006 when the Network was established. This project affords Roscommon Custom County Council an opportunity to work in co-operation with interested people to support our heritage and culture, and funeralenhance the quality of life of people in the county, by providing Chalk this customs fantastic resource for futureLENT generations to enjoy. Sunday OverStraw the past ten years a uniqueClann collection of storiesna about life in Roscommon has been collected from all corners of the county. LAND Every year, during National Heritage Week, new additions to the

The Auld Auld The Boneshaker Poblachta collectionBoys have been added.CURES The collection has grown and COMMISSION developed over the years, with the addition of video footage,

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Carnivals Matchmaking stories recounted in the collection provide a great insight into times gone by and how people livedVestment their lives and Box went about Dancestheir business over the past 100 years. Bord na Mona PloughingIn this centenary year, we have highlighted interviews in the collection which have particular WAKESinterest in terms of their insight intowith the period horses 1916-1926 as viewed through the eyes of those interviewed. Women Country i Eugene Cummins, n Pubs Chief Executive, Roscommon County Council Scramogue Ambush

House FAMINE The Truce Political MeetingsBanshee Markievicz

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MAKING THE REEK The Wedding Drive LAMPLIGHTER Black & Tans Chalk wages MEITHEAL Sunday and for threshingOther folklore collections in the county... LAND oats Fox Hunting Fox

Rambling Floods COMMISSION Blacksmith The County Roscommon FolkloreMatchmaking and Oral History collection is GAA the first Housesmajor collection of folklore and oral history to encompass the whole county since the Schools Folklore Collection which was carried out in the years 1937/8. The schools collection of Custom folklore is available in the County Library and on www.duchas.ie.

funeralJames “Jim” Delaney, who lived in Kiltoom, spent more than 30 Chalk years customs gathering tales of the life,LENT lore and traditions of the people throughout Roscommon but the concentration of his work was Sunday inStraw the south of the county. His workClann is now housed na at the National Folklore Collection in University College (UCD). LAND Dr Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, lecturer in Irish Foklore in UCD has

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Carnivals Matchmaking Dr. was a significantVestment collector of folklore Box in Co. DancesRoscommon and many of his collections were published inBord both na Mona PloughingIrish and English. Likewise, Sir William Wilde collectedWAKES folk tales and superstitions fromwith his boyhood horses spent in Roscommon. They were published as Irish popular superstitions. Women Country in Pubs Scramogue Ambush

House FAMINE The Truce Political MeetingsBanshee Markievicz

The Troubles Railway Fair Day Rural Electrification

MAKING THE REEK The Wedding Drive LAMPLIGHTER Black & Tans Chalk wages MEITHEAL Sunday and for threshingIntroduction to County Roscommon Folklore & Oral LANDHistory Networkoats Fox Hunting Fox

Rambling Floods COMMISSION Blacksmith County Roscommon Folklore andMatchmaking Oral History Network is a GAA group ofHouses interested individuals who came together to take part in a Folklore & Oral History training project which was being run by the Heritage Office of Roscommon County Council back Custom in 2005. The training project, under the direction of Anne Ridge, covered all aspects of recording folklore and oral history. Initially funeralolder people, in particular, were recorded so that their knowledge Chalk would customs not be lost. The recordingsLENT were then transferred to CD and transcribed. The interviewees and their families were given Sunday aStraw CD of the recording and theirClann consent was obtained na before the material was given to the County Library. LAND

The Auld Auld The Boneshaker Poblachta AllBoys interviews are carried outCURES in accordance with best practice COMMISSION guidelines. Every year, since 2006, we have added new recordings

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Carnivals Matchmaking collecting Folklore and Oral History in the county. All interviewers and interviewees give their time freelyVestment and with great Box enthusiasm. DancesRoscommon County Council works in partnership with usBord in na Mona terms of administrative support, transcription and presenting Ploughingour collection to the public throughWAKES the County Library Service, aswith an action horses of the County Roscommon Heritage Plan. We hope you enjoy the collection. Women CountryJames Dockery, Chairperson, County Roscommon in Pubs Folklore and Oral History Network Scramogue Ambush

House FAMINE The Truce Political MeetingsBanshee Markievicz

The Troubles Railway Fair Day Rural Electrification

MAKING THE REEK The Wedding Drive LAMPLIGHTER Black & Tans Chalk wages MEITHEAL Sunday and for threshingWho we are and what we do... LAND oats Fox Hunting Fox

Rambling Floods COMMISSION Blacksmith County Roscommon Folklore andMatchmaking Oral History Network are GAA volunteers Houses who interview and record people with interesting stories to tell about their life. Their stories shed light on times gone past - ways of working, travelling, socialising, communicating,Custom learning, playing, praying, cooking, farming and much more.

funeralThese stories may be familiar to many of us of now, but we must Chalk remember customs in a few short years LENTthese stories will be a revelation to future generations who have grown up with electricity, cars, Sunday mobileStraw phone, wi-fi and socialClann media. Can they na possibly imagine life as it was lived in the county over the past 100 years or so? LAND This collection has much to teach future generations.

The Auld Auld The Boneshaker Poblachta Boys CURES COMMISSION County Roscommon Folklore and Oral History Network simply

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Carnivals Matchmaking The interviewer is introduced to the person if they do not know them. If people agree to being interviewedVestment they visit Box them in their Danceshomes and have a chat with them. This chat or ‘interview’Bord is na Mona recorded and put on to CD. The CD is left back with the Ploughinginterviewee for them to listen to and see that they are happy with their interview. If they want anythingWAKES edited out of the interview, thiswith can be horses done for them. When they are happy with the interview, and oral consent is given, it is added to Womenthe collection. At that stage Countryit is sent for transcription. The transcription is checked and corrections made if necessary. Once thei recordingn Pubs and transcription are in order, the interview can be uploaded to the collection. Scramogue Ambush

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The collection is available, free, to theBanshee public via the County PoliticalLibrary Service, during Meetings library opening hours. Markievicz

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MAKING THE REEK The Wedding Drive LAMPLIGHTER Black & Tans Chalk wages MEITHEAL Sunday and for threshingWhere to hear the interviews and watch the videos LAND oats Fox Hunting Fox

Rambling Floods COMMISSION Blacksmith To access the collection, just askMatchmaking for it at any library in the county. GAA Library Housesstaff will get you set up at a computer and show you how to access the collection. It is simple so don’t worry. Make yourself comfortable, put the headphones on and listen to the recordings Custom and watch the videos to your heart’s content! funeral Chalk Aim customs of this booklet LENT This booklet aims to spread the word about our collection. Sunday WhoStraw has been recorded? Clann na Where are they from? LAND Who recorded them and when was the recording made?

The Auld Auld The Boneshaker Poblachta WhatBoys do the interviewees talkCURES about? COMMISSION What might I hear that I didn’t hear before?

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Carnivals Matchmaking This booklet captures the collection as it stands in 2016. DancesWe hope it will continue to growVestment and expand. Box Bord na Mona Ploughing WAKES with horses Women CountryAs part of the 1916:2016 Roscommon Centenary Programme, interviews which shed light on life in thei nperiod Pubs 1916-1926 have been highlighted. Scramogue Ambush

House FAMINE The Truce Political MeetingsBanshee Markievicz

The Troubles Railway Fair Day Rural Electrification

MAKING THE REEK The Wedding Drive LAMPLIGHTER County Roscommon Folklore & Oral History Collection

RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING 001 Farrell O’Gara, James Dockery, Bord na Móna, Setting up of Bord na Móna, Scramogue, 2005 Drainage, Railways, Cutting the turf, People employed, Milled peat, ESB Power Station in Lanesboro, Walpole, Villages built for the workers, Cloontuskert, Derryhawn, Hearthstone from Corcoran’s house, Famine, Mahons, Death of a family member in a limekiln, Scramogue Ambush and the , Rambling houses.

002 Farrell O’Gara, Margaret Floods December 1954, Christmas, Goose Scramogue, Faughnan, for Christmas, Christmas cheques, St. Strokestown 2005 Stephen’s Day, Wren Boys, Ghosts, Haunted Houses, IRA, Wakes, Barn Dances, Joints, Last Race in Strokestown, Du y’s Circus, Turkeys, Foxes.

003 John “Jack” Henry Owens, Black and Tans, Scramogue Ambush, Healy, 2006 Sharkey Sisters, Political Meetings during Kildalogue, the 1930s, De Valera, Madam Markievicz, Strokestown Blizzard 1947, Blueshirts, Brennan’s Hall , Country-house Dances, Compulsory Tillage, Stag Hunt, Joe Hayden, Electricity in Strokestown in the 1930s, e Troubles, Horses and Racecourses, Funerals, Tradesmen in Strokestown, Morohans’ Printing Press, e Strokestown Democrat, Fairs, Cattle Dealers, Show Day. 004 John “Jack” Margaret Wakes, Stations, Vestment Box, e Healy, Faughnan, Wedding Drive, e Wedding Meal, Kildalogue, 2006 Kiltrustan Football Team in 1930s, Bicycle Strokestown Race in the 1930s, Burial of Stillborn Infants in Strokestown Cemetery, Roscommon Hunt Meeting in 1936 at StrokestownHouse, Change from Ploughingwith Horses to Tractors.

005 Rory Kildu , James Dockery, Kildu ’s Saddlery, Harnesses, Hides, Silver Main Street, 2005 Harnesses, Aran Islands, Horse Ballinasloe Fair, Faction Fighting, Pitch and Toss, Tolls on Roads, Clanncarty, Men’s Clubs, Card Playing, Nap, Rambling Houses, Mission, Funerals, Rathpeake House, Political Meetings, Paddy Hogan, Fishing, Shooting, Weddings, Electricity, Ceili's, Carnivals, To s, Mental Home, Turf, Supplying Turf to the Mental Home, Margaret Dooran, ... RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

005 Rory Kildu , James Dockery, (cont’d)...Teeth Pulling at October Fair, Main Street, 2005 Ballinasloe, Quigley’Band,Harcourt’s Ballinasloe Hardware, Tomasheen Higgins, Gunpowder Explosion, Sports, Bicycle Races, Horse Racing, Dick Kenny, Dance Hall in the Workhouse, Post O ce, Slot Machines, First World War, British Legion Club, Ex. Soldiers Stories. 006 Rory Kildu , James Dockery, Canal in Ballinasloe, Railway Company, Main Street, 2005 First World War, Gasworks, Lamplighter, Ballinasloe Fire Brigade, Mill, Foresters’ Hall, General O’Duy, Sports, Cycle Racing, GAA, Duggan Park, ‘Ham Sunday’, e Green, Clan Carty, Cricket Team, Lord Ashtown, Races in Kilbegley, Duel between Darcy and Kelly, Millers House, Tennis Clubs, Hockey Clubs, Moore, George Nolan, ‘Legs Diamond’, Harper’s Hall, Dances, Circus, Portiuncula.

007 Michael Anne Ridge, Drimnagh Farm, Caslin Bog, Cunningham Cunnane, 2005 family, School in the 1930s, Knockavurrea, School, Seamus de Brun, Compulsory Tillage, Hedge Schools, Flaska, R.I.C, De Valera, 1916, Michael Collins, , Dr. Douglas Hyde, Macra na Feirme.

008 John Casey, James Dockery, Derrarogue, Cloontuskert, Hostel for Main Street, 2006 workers, Turkish workers, Baggers, Lilyput, Lanesboro Turf Harvesting, Railway Collector, Bord na Móna Villages, Houses for workers, O cial Opening and Blessing of the Villages, Poem by Seamus Kelly, First Power Station in 1955, Second Power Station in 1966, ird Power Station in 1983, Fourth Station in 2005, Ballyleague, Funerals, Oerings at Funerals, Dances, Maypole.

009 Seosaimhín Rosaleen Fallon, Woollen Mills, e beginning, Ní Mhuirí 2006 Agricultural implements, People who worked (Josephine there, Where eeces were obtained, Murray), Management, Wages, Various processes in e Park, Deerpark, the mills, John McCormack, Products, Athlone Prizes, e re in 1940, Description of the re, Buildings in Northgate Street, Managing the re, Aer the re, Fund set up, ... RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

009 Seosaimhín Rosaleen Fallon, (cont’d)... E ect of re on town of Athlone, Ní Mhuirí 2006 Where people found work aerwards, End (Josephine of woollen mills, Other companies in building, Murray), Shops in Church Street, Athlone, John e Park, Deerpark, Mullaney and Fianna Éireann, . Athlone 010 Seosaimhín Rosaleen Fallon, e Réalt in Athlone, Revival of Pattern in Ní Mhuirí 2006 Brideswell in 1957, Randal McDonnell Stone (Josephine in Brideswell, Ceidhlidh aer Pattern, Murray), Visitors from Dublin, Brideswell Local e Park, Committee in 1957, Format of Pattern, Deerpark, Athlone Statue in Brideswell, Miss Biddies (Brídeoga), Cult of St Brigid, Racing Cattle and Horses through Fire, Iron Tongs over Cradle, Hallowe’en Custom, St. Brigid and the Cloth, St Brigid and Our Lady, St Brigid Crosses the Bridge of Athlone. 011 Joe Rhattigan, Margaret Fair Day Strokestown, Fair Day Mohill Rooskey Faughnan, 25th Feb, Banshee, St. Stephen’s Day, St. 2005 Stephen’s Night in Kilmore, Bonre Night, Coxs’ Cross Bonre, , Gypsies, Travellers, Matchmaking, Stations, Going Astray at Night. 012 John Ward, Rosaleen Fallon, Marriage Customs, e Sherra, Match- Cregganabeaka, 1998 making, e Fortune, Working in Athlone, Clonown, Inheritance, January Fair in Athlone, Athlone Transporting Pigs by Cot, Mowing, Making the Reek.

013 Mary Mannion, Rosaleen Fallon, Marriage Customs, Matchmaking, e Baylough, 1998 Serra, Children Born outside Marriage, Athlone e Fortune, Crops, Selling Eggs and Butter, Women in Pubs, Women Working on the Farm, Meitheal for reshing. 014 Teresa Cauleld, Rosaleen Fallon, Going to School, Country Shop, Oil Lamps, Lowtown, 2005 War Years, Eggs for Groceries, Selling Turf, Ballydangan. Spreading Slits (planting potatoes), Dances, Kielty Hall, e Maypole, Market.

015 Paddy Malone, James Dockery, Casino Ballroom, Savoy Ballroom, Rosmeen, 2006 Carnivals, St. Stephen’s Night 1964, e Ballintubber Bella Hall, Mass in Casino, Alcohol, Joe Frazer, Seán Doherty, Big Bands, Building of the Casino, Flooring, Lighting, Bingo, Dressing Rooms, Employment. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

016 Anthony Tuohy, Colm Daly and Wilde Family, Arm Lodge, Connolly’s Saw Main Street, Patsy Mc Cahill, Mills, Ted Mc Loughlin, Methodist Church, 2006 Maureen Gannon, Blacksmiths in Castlerea, Flynn’s Pub, Halloran’s, John Fitzgibbons, Sandfords, Parnell, Doughlas Hyde, House, Michael Tighe, Arm Caisheal,King Daithi, O’Conors, Bishop Phair, Lesley Phair, Wind Chargers, Bishop Young, Harristown House, St Keelan, Tarmon, Stone Masons, Fr. O’, Newfoundland, Castlerea Jail, Ned Du y, Morahan Printers, Brewery, Kilkeevan. 017 Tom Moore, John O’Shea, Tom Moore, e Troubles, Black and Tans, St. Paul’s 1989 James Tormley, Jim Byrne, e Playboy of Terrace, the Western World, History of the Abbey Athlone eatre, Shows in Moore, Pantomime, Brendan Shine, e Auld Boneshaker (song), High Nellie, Battery School, Athlone Tech, Joe Flynn, Birmingham, He’s Back (play), Army, Gorry Bog, Lebanon, Songwriting.

018 Rose Anne James Dockery, Marriage, Dowries, Spalpín Corner, Beirne, 2005 Seasonal Work, Matchmaking, Lent, Straw Ballincurley Boys, Nuptial Mass, Wedding Breakfast, North, Clothes, Rural Electrication, Wiring costs, Ballinaheglish Rambling Houses, Card Games, Country House Dances, Cures, Itinerants, Sheep Shearing, Wool, Shoes, Spinning Wool, Dying Wool, Missions, Redemptorists, Sermons. 019 Paddy James Dockery, Economic War, Dole, Road Works, Turf, Concannon, 2005 Phoenix Park, Trains Bicycles, Petrol Knockmurray, Allowance, Tillage, Rabbits, Pigeons, Gaelic Castlerea Football, Lighting, Dance Bands, Second World War, Lord Haw Haw, Censorship, Cinema, Soccer, 1943 All , Dan O’Rourke, Fight in Ballintubber Church, Mental Hospital, Noel Browne, T.B. Merlin Park, Cures, Jaundice, Fluke, Ringworm, Big Snow 1947, Funerals, Poteen, Rambling Houses, Newspapers, Banshee, South Park House, Balfes, Caoiners, Land Commission, Tarmon School. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

020 Paddy James Dockery, Political Meetings, , Concannon, 2005 De Valera, James Dillon, , Knockmurray, Drama, M.J. Molloy, Ferrets, Rabbits, Castlerea Fishing, Poaching, South Park Estate, Major Balfe, Mount Talbot, Stag Hunting, Fox Hunting, Geese, Castlerea Fowl Market, Eggs, Workhouse in Castlerea, Famine Pots, Mother Paul, Famine Burials, Sinn Féin, Cattle Driving, Land Commission.

021 Paddy James Dockery, Ballintubber Fair, Matchmaking, Castlerea Concannon, 2005 Pig Fair, Jobbers, Castlerea Fairgreen, Knockmurray, Blockers, Towey, Mart, Buyers at Fairs, Castlerea Castlerea Horse Fair, e Mission, Maypole, Religion, Protestants, Village Station, Vestment Box, Station Breakfast, Wages and Oats, Tinkers, Tinsmiths, Schooling, Turf, Bog Roads, Minor Relief Schemes, Stealing Turf, Changes in Saving Turf, Protecting Bogs, Turbary Rights, Fixed Price on Turf. 022 James Murray, James Dockery, Forge, Cures for Warts, Coal, , Lisbrock, 2006 Lisbrock, Anvil, Sheep Crook, Shoeing Brideswell, Horses, Nails, Shortage of Iron, Forge, Athlone Itinerants Smiths, Payment, Fairs, Weight of a Shoe, Horse Shoes, Spear for Catching Fish, Brands, Blacksmith’s Curse, Blacksmiths Headstones, Ornamental Work, Racehorse shoes, Anvil Sounds. 023 John Joe Malley Henry Owens, Curraroe, Bord na Mona, Mount Dillon, Cloonslanor, 2006 Bagger, Blacksmith’s Trade, Pat Malley, Strokestown Shoeing a Horse, Cart Wheels, Welding, Tempering, Driving Rods, Nooses, Tongs, Rural Electrication, Horse Shoes, Frost Nails, Iron, Forge, Lanesborough Fair, Haunted Houses, Lisonuy Graveyard, Ploughing, Tragic Accident.

024 Tommy Gaynor, Colm Daly, Hugh Gaynor, Claeys, Rationing, Main Street, 2006 Black Market Tea, Order to Guinness in 1912, Castlerea Eggs, Fair Mornings, Carriage Paid Home, Credit, Wages, Paddy Heavey, Mary Gannon, Dosing Animals, Christmas, Undertaking Business, Horse Hearses, Habit, Burial Charge, Cremation, Funeral Customs. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

025 James Cox, Henry Owens, Ploughing, David Brown Tractor, Horse ‘Gay eld 2006 Ploughing, Lanesborough Fair, Longford House’, Horse Fair, Monaghan Day in Mohill, Legan, Strokestown Fair, Ballinasloe Fair, Napoleon, Kilglass Compulsory Tillage, reshing, ‘Garvie’ resher, Reaper and Binder, Big Snow 1947, Ford Ferguson, Maurice Cox, Paddy Doorley, Horse-drawn resher, Wages during the War Years. 026 Margaret James Dockery, Scramogue Ambush, IRA, Black and Tans, Feeney, 2006 Curragh, Mc Keown, Fr. Michael O’Flanagan, Ashbrook, RIC, Count Plunkett, IRA Pensions, Strokestown Ashbrook, Wallpole, Working in America, Cobh, Marriage, Banshee, Cures, Burn, Mankeeper (insect), Ringworm, Bord na Móna, Boat from America, Ringworm.

027 Margaret Margaret Scramogue Ambush, Black and Feeney, Faughnan, Tans, IRA, Executions by the IRA, Ashbrook, 2005 e Truce. Strokestown

028 Kay and Anne Ridge, Pat Flynn, Undertaking Business, Connolly Michael 2006 Brothers, Castlerea Lighting and Milling Raery, Company, Mullarkeys, Mc Dermotts, Knockroe, Demesne, Fair Green, Town Trust, Lord Castlerea Sandford, Fairs, John Fitzgibbons, Market House, Post Oce, Sanatorium, Protestant Church, Nally’s Saddlery, Tennis Club, Sir William Wilde, Harristown House, Cra Business, Slough, Windsor, Traders Association, Chamber of Commerce, Castlerea Enterprize, Hanley Hall.

029 George Quinn, Patsy Mc Cahill, Ballintubber, Football, St. Croan’s, Dan Ballintubber, 2006 O’Rourke, Long Jump, Ballinaheglish, Castlerea Training, War Years, Bicycles, Sports, James Kenny, George Geraghty, Athlone, Army, Ballintubber Athletic Club, Handball, Rugby, Soccer. 030 Sister Gertrude Seán Ra ery, Rosary, Mass, Presentation College, Connolly, 2006 Mountmellick, California, Brackloon, Brackloon, Tully School, Caddlebrook School, Castlerea San Bernardino, San Bruno Prison, Homeless, Baslick, Vatican II, Changes in Religious life. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

031 Jack Kilcline, James Dockery, Cunningham Family Murder, Lisphelim, Carrigeenmore, 2006 Cures Regarding Eggs and Plants, Egg Collectors, Fowling, Gort, Haunted Houses, Hudson-Gunning House, , Killahan, Lough Funshinagh (Lough Winshin), Migratory Birds, Murder in Killahan and Gort in 1877, Murder in Lisfelim in 1895, Native Birds, St. John's Wood Flora, Superstitions Regarding Milking and Churning, Superstitions regarding Robins, Trapping and Exporting of Pigeons and Lapwings during World War II, Trapping of Gold nches, Wild Birds of Lough Funshinagh and Areas, Wild Birds.

032 e Year of John O’Shea, Irish Wildbird Conservancy (I.W.C), the Corncrake 1991 Corncrake, Habitat, Farming Practices, Harvesting, Shannon, Callows, Bord na Móna, , Clonburren, Cappaleitra.

033 Andy Lawlor, James Dockery, New Year’s Day, Geese, Dances, Four Roads, Tibarney, 2006 , Hansel Monday, May Day, Fire on Four Roads May Day, Borrowing on May Day, Cattle, Butter, Maypole, Good Friday, Sowing Crops on Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Lilies, White, Washing Sheep, Evil Eye, Bon re Night, Fairies, Garland Sunday, Patterns, Faction Fighting, Croagh Patrick, Hallowe’en, Christmas, Cleaning for Christmas, Midnight Mass, St. Stephen’s Day, Wren, Marriage, Shrove, Matchmaking, Dowry, Marriage Banns, Chalk Sunday, Puss Sunday, Fertility in Marriage – oaten bread, Honeymoons.

034 Andy Lawlor, James Dockery, Annuities, Mount Talbot, Rents, Four Roads, Tibarney, 2006 Sheep/Wool, Clothes, Ballygar, Land Four Roads Commission, Val Mac Donald, School, Food, Teachers/Mr Heavey, Ghosts, Fr. Brady, Twelh Night, Rush Candles, Cures, Quacks, Chape Jacks, Fair, Ballygar Fair, Dan O’Rourke, Tolls, Pigs, Railing Cattle, Currency, Ploughman Notes, Economic War, Rationing, Bicycle Tyres, Card Playing. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

035 Liam Kelly, James Dockery, St. Brigid’s Hospital Ballinasloe, Psychiatric Church Street, 2006 Nurses, An Bord Altranais, Night duty, , ANCO’s, TB Patients, St. Patrick’s Hospital Ballinasloe Castlerea, Merlin Park, Monaldai Drainage Systems, Tomograms, INAH tablets and PAS, Lungs, Our Lady of Lourdes Credit Union Ballinasloe, Hire Purchase, Moneylenders, Pawn Shops, Oath of Allegiance, Representativeof the Irish League of Credit Unions, Hall of Fame along with John Hume and Kathleen Matthews. 036 Noel James Dockery, Cereal Sowing, Spade Lug Tractor, O'Rourke 2005 Compulsory Tillage, Cutting Corn, Mowing Cruit, Machines, Stooks of Corn, Stacks of Corn, Ballymurray, Reaper and Binder, reshing, Land Roscommon Commission Workers, Harvesting, Lecarrow, Knockcroghery, Roscommon, Superstitions, e Emergency & Unemployment, Mitching from School, Haggard, Milling Oats, Kiln Drying Corn, White Water made from Oaten Meal, Bad Winter 1947, atching, Flail used for reshing Corn, Scutching Corn, Dances at Harvest Time, Lodged Corn, Rye, Winnowing Corn, Bart - Measurement of Corn, Construction of Stooks and Stacks, Reeds used for atching, Starlings Roosting Habits, Recitations from the Ballymurray/Knockcroghery Area, Piseogs Regarding Milking, Eel Fishing on the Shannon, Curses, Quaker Island, , St. Dermot's Well, , Cure for Sore Eyes, Clawinch Island, Rinnany. 037 Michael Colm Daly, Brothers School, Cloondahara, Rambling Morris, 2007 Houses, Musicians, Wakes, Christmas, Castlerea Hackney Cars, Tinkers, Traders, Technical School, Claey’s Bar and Hardware, Andy Cummins, Connollys, Connolly’s Saw Mill and Workshop, Connolly’s Delivery Lorry, Paint, Washing Soda and Bluestone, Tilly Lamps, Glass and Putty, Dak, Churns, Cast Iron Pots, Sulphor,Leather, Hotels, Cinema, Bakeries, Shoemakers, Tailors, Carpenters, Coach Builders, Harness Makers, Garages, Doctors, Vets, Station Masters, Publicans, Hospital, War Years, Big Snow of ‘47, 1943/44 Football Players. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

038 Katie James Dockery, Sanatorium in Castlerea, Donegal, Callaghan, 2006 Roscommon, Mayo, , Ballinasloe; Rathmoyle, Students, Wards, County Homes, Peamount, Castlerea Farm, Streptomycin, PAS Injection, Lobectomy, Patsy McGarry, e Irish Times, Sanitary conditions, Jail, Merlin Park, Mental Hospital. 039 Tom James Dockery, Callaghan, O’Callaghan, Hangman, Callaghan, 2006 Grangemore, Mullen, Cutting Turf, Depot Rathmoyle, in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Sugar Factory Castlerea in Tuam, Land Exchange, Land Commission, Rathnallog, Carnakit, Cottons, Duignan’s of Rathmoyle, Milk, Horse Fairs in Ballina, Galway city, Turloughmore, Ballisodare, & Swinford; Grants, Enniskillen, Stallion ghts, Politics, Elections, Canvassing, Chairman of County Council, Roderick O’Connor. 040 John Boland, John O’Shea, Creagh N S, Student in St. Grellan's N S, Birchgrove, 2007 St. Jarlaths Tuam, Farming, , Creagh, Harmony Henry, St. Pat's Training College Ballinasloe Dublin, Teaching in St. Grellan's N S, , Conrmation and First Communion, Class Retreats, Perfect Act of Contrition. 041 Mary Watson, James Dockery, Boats on the Shannon, Turf Cots, Bringing Carronderry, 2006 Livestock to the Islands, Sid Shine's Uncle, Kiltoom Accidents on the Shannon, Whit, Tormey, Fishing, Drum Net, William Duy, Eel Fishing, Flooding on the Shannon, Pleasure Boats, Wakes, , Clonown Funerals, Banshee, Nunnery in Clonown, Killing Pigs, Curing Bacon, Black Pudding, Turf Cutting during , Army. 042 Tom Killeen, James Dockery, Pub, Preparing Bottles, Bottling Stout and Togher, 2006 Beer, Ballinasloe Station, Canal, Weights & Ballinasloe Measures Inspection, Rural Electrication, Bone Fide, Mission, Lent, RTE, De Valera, Ballinasloe Fair, Tinkers, Currency Changes, Barracks, Characters, Grocery Trade. 043 Barry Feely, Tony Conboy, Cathedral, Quarry in Rock- Rock of Doon, 2007 ingham, Four lights in circle of Celtic Cross, Monuments for the old IRA, Luck Penny, Black Granite Headstones, Reredos, Corner boys in Boyle, Abbey Park GAA eld, Boyle Arts Festival, Kilkenny Limestone, Belgium Limestone. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

044 Eithne Quinn, James Dockery, Roscommon Credit Union,Community Cruby Hill, 2007 Council, Hospital Action Committee (HAC), Roscommon Fitzgerald Report, County Council Elections, HAC Protest March, Election of 1987,Tom Fox Election of 1989, St. Patrick's Hospital Castlerea TB patients, Tom Collins, Dances at Johnny Burkes, Opening of Sanatorium, Strike at the Sanatorium. 045 Patrick (Pat) Colm Daly, Station, Knock, Specials, e Sta, Nally, 2007 Steam Trains, Dominic Connor, Ballymoe, Ardnamullagh, Kenny's Ballintubber, Early's Busheld, Ballintubber, Raferty's, Clondoyle, Ballast Trains, Castlerea Towey's, Hackney Cars. 046 Mickey Di ey, James Dockery, Butcher Shop, Fairs in Strokestown, Elphin, Bridge Street, 2007 Longford, Roscommon, Tulsk or Mohill; Strokestown Black Polly or Black Whitehead, Animal Feed and Land Quality, Own Mark and Own Raddle, Humane Killer, A Beef Tree, e Sti and the Hide, e Warble Fly, e Green Oal, e Internal Organs, Tolls at Fairs. 047 Johnny Dowd, Manus Tiernan, Knockalegan, Castleplunkett, Castleteehan, Knockalegan, 1983 Butler's of Heatheld, Racehorses, Lissalway, Congested Districts Board, Major Balfe, Castlerea Southpark, Irwin's of Rathmoyle, Land Commission, Cherryeld, Elphin. 048 Mary J Daly, James Dockery, Post Oce in Ballintubber, Convent of Ballintubber, 2008 Mercy Roscommon, Boarding School, Day Castlerea Girls, Uniform, Vocations, Miss Scally, Campaign for Post Oce, Meetings, Boycott, Kennedys of Castleross, Rates, Fleet Street, Public Phone, Elphin 1-4, Mail Car, Telegrams, Parcels, Carnivals, Blue Shirts. 049 John & Molly Manus Tiernan, Parish of Baslick, Lisheen, Ardeevin, Mass Carlos, 1983 Path, Cuttle, Carlos, Casey, Raerty, Castle- Rusheen, plunkett, Castleplunkett School, Milltown, Mullygallan, Cloonaull, Lynn's Quarry, Rev. Michael Flood, Lissalway, Rev. T. Dillon, Heatheld House, Tamerline (racehorse), Mockler, Irwins, Fairs, Emlagh House, Black and Tans at Emlagh House, Black And Tans, Hidden Fenian Era Pistols, Drishaghaun, Holy Well in Tobereliva, , Famine Grave, Disarming of a soldier by Andy Smith, Digging Wells, Saw Mill, Rathmoyle House. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

050 Breedge Sean Ra ery, Castlerea shops, Tarmon, Loughglynn, IRB, Keaveney, 2007 Old IRA, Prison, Prisoners from Castlerea St. Patrick being brought to Ballykinlar, e Troubles, Street, Guns, Republicans, Policeman and railway Castlerea men who helped the Republicans, Markets, Fairs, Sandford Demesne, Town's Trust, Sewerage Scheme Strike Poem.

051 Patsy Brennan, James Dockery, Roscommon Herald, Printing Apprenticeship, e Crescent, 2007 Printing Techniques, Distribution, 1947 Snow, Boyle Boyle DC Current, ESB, Obituaries, Weekly Columns, Politicians, Fires, Rockingham, Crannogs, Murders, Jasper Tully, Jack McQuillan, Herald Fire. 052 Bridget (Birdy) Sean Ra ery, Black and Tans, Communion Fast, Bonhams, Flanagan, 2008 Playing Tricks, Potatoes, Poverty, Fr. Flanagan, Lismurtagh, Boystown, Ballymoe, Irish Speaking, Tulsk Marriage, Mass, Rosary, TB, Poverty, Pig Killing, Childbirth, Infant Mortality, Dowry, School Days. 053 John Gacquin, James Dockery, Gacquin, Dysart, Farm Inheritance, Breaking Kilderney, 2006 Horses, Compulsory Tillage, Economic War, Curraghboy, Mills, reshing, Fairs, Roscommon, Athlone Athlone, Cattle, Pig, Fowl Rearing, Rabbits, Matchmaking, Big Houses, Tinkers, Wakes, Funerals, Emigration, Building Trade. 054 Paddy Mongey, James Dockery, Kiltoom House, Field Names, Carrownderry, Carrownderry, 2006 Gunning, Rabbit Trapping, Butter, Conacre, Kiltoom, Eggs, Ferrets, Kiltoom Graveyards, O'Connell Athlone Duel, Land Commission, Levinge in Newpark Ardmullen, Crawler Tractor.

055 Luke Dolan, James Dockery, Fairs in Strokestown, Cattle Buyers, Vet Cloonfree, 2008 Duignan, Joe Casserly, Drover Geoghegans, Strokestown Fair in Roscommon, Tolls, Old Moore's Almanac, Tail Eaters, Rabbits, Turkeys, Faction Fight, Towey's, Miss Gray, Cures, Emigrants, Haunted House. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

056 Dermot Manus Tiernan, Tom Flanagan, Churns, Evictions, e Flanagan, 1983 Famine, Ganger in Dunmore, Rambling Rusheen, Houses, Balfe of Southpark, Tommy Joe Castleplunkett, Concannon, Johnny Casey, Macra na Feirme, Castlerea Tulsk Parochial Hall, Mike Dobey, Tarring the Roads, Telephones, Palkitty or Pollranny, Porter sprees, Carnivals.

057 Luke Hurley, Mary Kelly, Four Mile House Ambush, Scramogue Clooncan, 2003 Ambush, Michael Glavey, Master O’Donnell, Gortaganny, Ballinlough Barracks, Ms Carlos, Ms Castlerea O’Callaghan, Ms Taylor, , Farming. Feiseanna at Castlerea and Roscommon, Economic War, Burning Barracks, Michael Glavey, 1922 roll books changed from English to Irish. 058 Ned Smith, Manus Tiernan, Black and Tans, IRA drilling, Tarmon Killings, Killmurray, 1983 Killing of Inspector James King, Informers, Castlerea e Murder Gang, Killings at Cloonsuck, Ambush of Black and Tans at Southpark, Mike Hussey's arrest. 059 Fr. Donal John O'Shea, Lemanaghan, St. Mel’s College, Birmingham, O’Lehane, 1989 Athlone, , , Parochial Clonmacnoise, Vatican Council, Enclosed House, Orders, Ministers of the Eucharist, Missions, Shannonbridge Pattern St. Ciaran’s Well, Fr Paddy Kenny.

060 Paddy Doorly, Colm Daly, Clooneenbaun 'White Clay', Cloneycolgan, Clooneenbaun, 2007 Runamote, Writing on Slate at School, Black Donamon and Tans, Capturing and Drowning of a Soldier in the Suck, Chichester (landlord), Burning of RIC barracks, Liam T. Cosgrave, Sean MacEoin T.D., Donamon Stars, Oran GAA Club, Brendan Lynch, Ballintubber Fair, Tinkers, Conlon Cup, Horses, Fairs, Compulsory Tillage, Ration Books, Big Snow, Football Matches.

061 Bernie Dolan, James Dockery, Ballinasloe Fairs, Blockers, Bargaining, Lowtown, 2006 Luck Penny, Tail Eater, Railways, Cheap Jacks, Ballydangan, ree-Card-Trick, Matchmaking, Marts, Athlone Blue Cards, Currency Change, Metric Weights, Change from Fairs to Marts. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

062 Rita Dorr, Mike Lennon, Ballagh, Hillstreet, Count Plunkett Election Donnybrook, 2009 1917, November 11 1918, Auxilliaries, British Dublin Army, Black and Tans, Aughrim Volunteers, e Treaty, Dangan National School, Brennan's, Camden Street, Working in the Draperys, Holidays, Landladies, Old IRA Literary and Debating Society, James Brennan (1916 participant), Percy French, Roscommon Association, 1943 All Ireland, Flooding on the Shannon in the 1950s, RIC, Wren Boys.

063 Michael Mike Lennon, Ballinlough, Emigration, Ballina, Drapery Fitzmaurice, 2009 Apprentice, Moran Brothers Dublin, Todd Phibsborough, Burns's, Roscommon association, 1943 Dublin All Ireland, Dances, Outings, Charity, Social & Sport Events, Annual Mass, e Yearbook, Roscommon Songs Book, County Crest, Arnott's.

064 Luke Dolan, James Dockery, Cloonfree N.S., Rag Football, Matches, Cloonfree, 2008 Kiltrustan Football Club, Tarmon Football Strokestown Club, Strokestown Football Club, Tom Shevlin, Football Matches at e Demesne, Pakenham Mahon, Black and Tans, Mount Browne, Walter Jones, Turf Cutting, Stealing of Turf, Ambushs at Fourmilehouse and Ashbrook, Revenge Killing by Black and Tans, Division of Land at Mount Browne.

065 Tom and Manus Tiernan, Irwin’s Rathmoyle House, “ e Plains of Bridget Ryan, 1983 Rathmoyle”, Sale of Rathmoyle, Ghosts, Rathmoyle, Herds, Eviction, Friars, Ballinasloe Fair. Castlerea 066 Pa Collins, Sean Ra ery, Black and Tans, , School, Ballyglass, 2007 Ambush, Emigration, Kilmurry, Republicans, Troubles, Flying Columns, Castlerea 1917 Election, Count Plunkett, Cattle Drives, Wages, Poitín.

067 Tom Kelly, James Dockery, Sarah Kelly, Lysters of Lystereld, Cures, Grange, 2006 e Banshee, Rambling House, Black and Curraghboy, Tans in Curraghboy, Lismoyle School, Athlone War Veterans, Duels, Murders, Dances, Missions, Wakes, Funerals, Stations. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

068 Brigid Mike Lennon, John Shiel, Drinaun, Carpenter Wheel Kavanagh, 2010 Shoeing, Matchmaking, Chalk Sunday, A native of Stations, House Dances, Rambling House, Bunnamucka, Canadian Plane Crash, Bunnamucka. Strokestown

069 James Gordon, James Dockery, Athletics, Sliabh Ban Harriers, Ballinaheglish, Manor, 2010 Bare Feet, Spikes, Bord na Mona, Tulsk , Prizes, Medals, National Athletic and Cycling Association (N.A.C.A), Greyhounds, Manor Susie. 070 Michael Frank Tivnan, Tailor, Boyle, Prince Albert’s, Roman Harrington, 2010 Soutanes, e Goose, e Donkey, Sitting Carrick Road, Crossed Legged, Dance Marquees, Boyle King House, Animal Stories.

071 Marty James Dockery, Open Coursing, Park Coursing, Netting Flanagan, 2010 Hares, Slipper Castleland, Coursing Attaballa, Meetings, Judge, Bookmakers, Greyhound Elphin Training, Greyhound Breeding, Rabbits, Ferrets, Rambling House, Card Playing, Wakes. 072 Michael John Casey, Famine Evictions, Stick-foot Johnston, Corcoran, 2006 Ambushes, Black and Tans, Bank Raids, Carrowroe, Civil War, Economic War, Land Annuities, Rathcline LDF Pipe Band, e Big Snow, Transportation to Van Diemen's Land, Count Plunkett.

073 Paddy Downes Seán Browne, Castlerea, First World War, Connaught with Paul 2007 Rangers, IRA, Civil War, Free State, Irregulars, Healy, Church Rd., New Line, Hanly Hall, Connolly Castlerea Brothers, Railway Station, Achill Train, Football, Working in England and Scotland, Second World War, Sanatorium, T.B., Paddy's parents,Psyche Hanly, Fr. Mullaney, Blueshirts, Bella Hall, 1943 All Ireland, Dan O’Rourke, Castlerea Celtic, John L. Browne, John Murphy, Fife and Drum Bands, Economic War, Roscommon Jerseys, Soccer Team of 1940s, Castlerea, Minors, Tarmon Juniors, Danny Burke, Micky Egan, . RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

074 Billy Donlon, James Dockery, Marist Brothers Strokestown, Brother Hubert Elphin Street, 2007 Cunni e, Catholic Boy Scouts, Investiture Strokestown Ceremony, Rooskey Regatta, Pipe Band, Sligo, College Burse (Scholarship), Swimming Pool, Meals, Discipline, Sports, Peter Molloy, Jack McQuillan, Vocations. 075 Paddy Moore, James Dockery, Macra na Feirme Taughmaconnell, IFA Riverside 2006 Protest, Elections, Jack McQuillan, Clann Place, na Poblachta, County Councillor, Athlone Co-operativeMovement, Athlone Show, Feis, Missions, Black and Tans.

076 James Sean Ra ery, Garage Business, Ra erty’s, Flanagan, 2007 Janie Keane, Carpenter, Tailor, Castleplunket Great Fair of Castleplunket, Great fair of Ballinasloe, Drinking, Sawdust, Selling Calves.

077 Delia and James Dockery, Biddy Crummy, Douglas Hyde, Wren Boys, Vince Moran, 2006 Morrisroes, Reilly’s Hotel Frenchpark, Portahard, Hyde’s Funeral, Lord de Freyne, Frenchpark Land Commission, Fr. Lavin, Una Hyde Sealy, Hyde’s Poetry, Poitín Making, Stations, Cures (ringworm, thrush, whooping cough, colic), Hare and associated superstitions, Bride Doweries, Tinkers, Gypsies, Ambush outside Frenchpark, Moving Bog (1915), RIC, Black and Tans, IRA, e Truce, Bottleblowers, Cattle Drives.

078 Bill Muldoon, Tom Harney, Boston Born, Grandparents Irish, U.S.A 2011 Kiltoom Parish, Carriage Driver, Catholic Church and School, Education, Military Service, Irish Community, 1929 Depression, Prohibition, Liquor Business, Tracing roots in Roscommon, Sligo and Donegal. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

079 Foncy Conroy, James Dockery, Carnivals in Tulsk, Fairs, Fowl Markets, Carrowna- 2011 Missions, Wakes, ESB, Tulsk Livestock Mart, geelaun, Strike, Tulsk Macra Hall, Handball Alley. Tulsk

080 Dan O'Dowd, James Dockery, Christian Brothers, Postulator, Juniorate, e Berries, 2012 Novitiate, St. Edwards College Liverpool, Athlone Butler Act, Burnham Scale, Vow of Perseverance, Confession of the Faults, Christian Brothers School Roscommon, St. Paul’s College Raheny.

081 Adam (Sonny) John O'Shea, Sawmill, Making Horse Carts, Big Mill Fraser, 1989 Wheel at Moore Mill, rashing, omastown, House Building, Clock and Watch Repair, Ballydangan, Saw Sharpening, Photography, Athlone Development from Glass Plates, Dark Room.

082 Albert Siggins, James Dockery, Lecture given to the County Roscommon Castlestrange, 2010 Historical and Archaeological Society: Luck, Athleague Superstitions about House Building, Fairies, Fairy Paths, Choosing House Site, Michaelmas, Lucky Days for Moving House, Superstitions about Domestic Fire, House Leek, Lucky Horseshoes, Animal and Human Diseases, the Bad Eye, Congested Districts Board (CDB), Curses.

083 Jim Ganly, James Dockery, Lecture entitled ‘ e Burning of Cloonarragh, 2012 Knockcroghery' given to the County Roscommon Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society: Creggan, Cromwell, Cnoc na Croiche, Captain Cullo O’Kelly, Bishop Synge Census, Clay-Pipe Making, War of Independence, RIC, Black and Tans, Auxiliaries, AD RIC, General Lambert, Compensation, Moydrum Castle, Dúidín scrapers, Seán MacEoin.

084 Tommy Morris, James Dockery, Travelling Shop, Donnelly's in Kiltoom, Newpark, 2012 Deliver Telegrams, Weighing and Packing, Kiltoom, Buying Eggs, Parran Oil, Money from Athlone America, Barrels of Herrings, Flour Bags, e Christmas box, Kiltoom Church of Ireland, Pitch and toss, Newpark, e Land Commission, Poaching, Gamekeeper, Ghosts. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

085 Jimmy Browne, Manus Tiernan, Congested Districts Board (CDB), Castleteehan, 1983 Land Division, New House, Teehans, Castlerea Glovers, Southpark House, Evictions, Land Commission, the Ashbourne Act.

086 Albert Siggins, James Dockery, Lecture given to the County Roscommon Castlestrange, 2011 Historical and Archaeological Society on Athleague 'Trades in the Parish of found on the Synge Census of 1749': Synge Census, Fuerty, Hearth Money, Mixed Marriages, Names of Wives, Rock eld Mill, Early Christian Slabs, Cootes of Bally n, John Hamilton Sieve Maker, Tannery, Rams for Service, Flax Preparation, Killing a Pig.

087 John Flannery, James Dockery, Féis in Taughmaconnell, Running Bare Faulty, 2012 Footed, Sports Meetings under National Oldtown, Athletic & Cycling Association (NACA) Athlone Rules, Flapper Meeting, Father Ryan in Garbally, Moore Athletic Club, All Ireland Junior Cross Country in Ballydangan, Training, e Dublin Marathon, Faulty House, Mobile Stallion, Prime of Life (Stallion), John Mathers (Moore), Cattle Drive in 1916, Land Comission, Faulty House, Haunted Houses, Rabbit Hunting, Pigeon Shooting, Moore GAA Club, FCA Training.

088 Bishop Joseph John O'Shea, Island Parish, Canon Richard Horan, Cassidy, 1996 Bishop Joseph Cassidy, Charlestown, Parochial Achonry, Clonfert, Garbally College, House, Moore Archbishop of Tuam, Nicknames, Seal of the Confession, Mother Teresa, Her Visit to Knock Shrine, Relationship between the Priest and the Sick and Dying, Coming to the Scene of a Fatal Trac Accident at Cloughjordan, Vatican II, Priest Facing the People at Mass, Monsignor Tom Ryan, Pope John the XXIII.

089 Séamus Cleary, Colm Daly, Egg Merchant, Egg Tester, Timber Cases, Knockroe, 2012 Exporting Eggs, 120 per 100 Eggs, Castlerea Petrol Coupons, Egg Inspector, Grocery & Hardware Shop, Credit, Travelling Shop, Furniture Auctions. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

090 Frankie Tarpey, Tony Conboy, Tawneytaskin, War years, Carnival, Ash eld, 2013 Army in Boyle, Workhouse, Handball, Boyle Football, Ploughing Championship, Picture house, Travelling shows, Bottled Guinness, Bar Trade, Bona Fide, Travel Agent, Fleadhs.

091 Tom Grin, James Dockery, Bakeries, Du s Ballaghadereen, e Lodge, 2013 Mc Nichols Kiltimagh, Boyle, Bread Making, Convent Road, Ovens, Flour, World War 1, Yeast , Sacks, Ballaghaderreen Batch Bread, Mixers, Tins, Jute Bags, Linen Bags, Bracks, Sugar Factories, Chester Cake, Horse-drawn Van, Timber Troughs, Electric Mixer, Fairs, Tolls, Markets, Flax, Electricity.

092 Jimmy Murray, omas Mullaney, Dan O'Rourke, John Fahy, Hessions Field, Knockcroghery 1997 e Split, County Colours, Collective Training , Refereeing, the Convent Field, Central Council, Polo Grounds, Football Stories, County Board President.

093 Jimmy Murray, Interviewer: Jimmy, who was 80 years old at the time, Knockcroghery omas Mullaney, reminisces on his life in the GAA. Among Recorded by: the topics he discusses are Dan O’Rourke, Sean Browne, John Fahy, the County Colours, 1997 Collective Training, Refereeing, Central Council, Polo Grounds, Friendships and his time as County Board President.

094 Pat Vaughan, Interviewer: In 1991 when Pat Vaughan made his 57th Boston, U.S.A. John , visit back to Ireland from Boston, he was & Cloonsuck, Recorder: the last surviving member of the 1st Battalion Cloonbonie, Sean Browne, South Roscommon Brigade IRA. ey Castlerea 1991 visited local sites associated with the struggle for independence. Pat recalls his part in that struggle and the shooting dead by Crown Forces of his brother Captain John Vaughan along with Ned Shannon at Cloonsuck on January 22nd 1921.

095 John Costello, Orator: Oration at the graveside of John Costello Knockroe, Sean Doherty, Knockroe, Castlerea Co. Roscommon, April Castlerea Recorder: 1992, by Seán Doherty: How John came to Sean Browne, Castlerea in 1956 as a psychiatric nurse. 1992 Profound desire to care for his patients. Love of hurling, music, history, people and family. Contribution to Local Government and the Health Committee. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

096 reshing in Interviewed by: Annie Kearney recalls threshing with ails Ballintubber Sean Browne and and the rst threshing machine in Killerr. Peggy Kearney, e other people helping include Con Recorded by: Kearney, Tommy Feeney, Tommy Grady, Sean Browne, Tom Hussey, Charley Satchwell, 1989 Donal Eivers, Jimmy Cooney, David Hussey, Pat Shaughnessy, Patsy Cooney, Peggy Kearney and Kathleen Leonard.

097 Funeral of Tom Orator: Last survivor the Moor Coy. 1st Battalion Satchwell, John Costello, South Roscommon Brigade of the old IRA Cloonbard, Recorder: to be buried in Irish soil. Following the Kilmurray, Sean Brown, Treaty Tom like many of his comrades Castlerea 1989 decided to follow constitutional means to achieve their aims. ey lived and worked for Ireland. Tom Satchwell was proud of the new Ireland. He was loyal to his country, his community and his family.

098 Andy Treacy, Interviewed by: Andy takes Sean to local sites of interest: Frenchlawn, Sean Browne, e site of the mill established by his Ballintubber Recorded by: ancestors who were millers from Kildare, Sean Browne, Frenchlawn level crossing where a train was 1989 derailed on Good Friday night 1901. In February 1949 a girl was killed by a train in the same place. ey visit the Suck Bridge built in1895, an old Kiln used for drying oats and the remains of “e Hut”. e hut was built for the RIC to protect William Glover during the ranch war. ey call on Jack Shaughnessy in his home in Killerr where the talk covers cattle drives and the four women plus baby that served a months jail sentence in Castlebar, the Black and Tans & the Civil War.

099 Presidential Interviewed by: Dr. Patrick Hillery visit to Sean Browne, visited Castlerea to commemorate the 50th Castlerea Recorded by: anniversary of the instillation of Dr. Douglas Sean Browne, Hyde as rst President of Ireland. He visited 1988 Longford House, birthplace of Dr. Hyde and Holy Trinity Church of Ireland to view the font where Dr. Hyde was baptised. Among those present were: Brian Mullooly (Chairman Roscommon County Council), Donal Connolly (Roscommon County Manager), Val Kelly, Kathleen Kelly, Rev Canon D.W. Greham, Castlerea Girl Guides, Castlerea Boy Scouts. Other Public Representatives included Terry Leyden, Sean Doherty and John Connor. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

100 e last Interviewed by: Lecarrow Quarry closed on May 28th 1988. Lecarrow Sean Browne, It was the main supplier of stone for ballast Quarry Train Recorded by: on the railway network. A spur o the main Sean Browne, railway line from Dublin to Westport, near 1988 Knockcroghery, was used for access to a hopper system. is lm records the arrival, loading and departure of the last train. Of particular interest are the safety measures used with the “Reversing of the Train”, the use of the “Sta ” in the subsidiary hut and the use of the phone line. Also we get a glimpse of some of the quarry machinery.

101 Paddy Downes, Interviewed by: Paddy speaks about Castlerea, First World Castlerea Paul Healy, War, Connaught Rangers, IRA, Civil War, Recorded by: Free State, Irregulars, Church Rd., New Line, Sean Browne, Hanly Hall, Connolly Brothers, Railway 2007 Station, Achill Train, Football, Working in England and Scotland, Second World War, Sanatorium, T.B., Paddy's parents, Psyche Hanly, Fr. Mullaney, Blueshirts, Bella Hall, 1943 All Ireland, Dan O’Rourke, Castlerea Celtic, John L. Browne, John Murphy, Fife and Drum Bands, Economic War, Roscommon Jerseys, Soccer Team of 1940s, Castlerea, Minors, Tarmon Juniors, Danny Burke, Micky Egan, Kilteevan.

102 Jane Flemming, Interviewed by: Jane who was 88 at the time recalls some of Creggaslin, Sean Browne, her life and times in Treen. She remembers Castlerea Recorded by: meeting her husband John Dominick and Sean Browne, having a double wedding with no 1989 honeymoon. She remembers attending the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin. She tells of the legend of how Creggaslin (rock of the little ass) got its name.

103 e Last Interviewed by: In July 2006 Guinness decided, aer 147 Guinness Sean Browne, years of using the railway to transport stout Train Recorded by: to the west of Ireland, it was switching to Sean Browne, road transport. e train we see in the lm 2006 is the last train with empty kegs returning to Dublin. Also, James Colleran gives us a demonstration of how to light the oil lamp and how to adjust the tension on the signal cable. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

104 Funeral of Recorded by: Ms Margaret Coll emigrated from Mrs Margaret Sean Browne, Cloonbonni e to the USA with only a Mulrennan Prayers by: national school education. She studied in the nee Coll, Fr. McDonagh, U.S. and became a New York state nurse. Cloonsuck, Oration by: She worked in hospitals and private practice Castlerea Micheál in New York. She made many visits back O’Callaghan, home to Cloonbonni e, one of which 1986 coincided with the War of Independence. She remained for some time and tended many a Volunteer including Sean Bergin who was seriously ill with pleurisy and pneumonia prior to him being shot in Loughglynn. She returned to the U.S. aer the war. She later married Dominick Mulrennan and lived in Cloonsuck. Her life was an inspiration to all who knew her.

105 Anthony James Dockery, Employment Opportunities, Old County Doolan, 2014 Home Buildings, Porter’s Oce, Nurse’s orneld, Home, Convent, Dr. , Lisnamult, School Children, Unmarried Mothers, Roscommon Laundry, Television, Dining, Chaplains, Admissions, Suppliers, Funerals, New Building.

106 Seamus Butler, Christy Kellegher, Lime Industry in Boher, Roach Lime, Boher, 2013 Lime Kiln Restored, Boher, Schools, Carrick-on- Plunkett’s, Tumna Gold Balls, Shannon Fertility Stone, St. Eadaoin.

107 Pat Hynes, Michael and School Clonown, Lights on the Bog, Oldtown, Rosaleen Fallon, Hedge School, omas Egan the Clonown, 2005 Philosopher, Fr Paddy Shine, War Years, Athlone Seed Potatoes, Carrots, Turf, Football in Clonown, Fr Ned Hughes, Volunteers, Ambush in (Tormey), Black and Tans, Funerals, Fianna Fail, De Valera and Political meetings, RIC Barracks, Sheebeen, Cunny Bridge.

108 Albert Siggins, James Dockery, Lecture given to the County Roscommon Castlestrange, 2012 Historical and Archaeological Society: Athleague Luck, the Evil Eye, Blue, Overlooker, P J Gaynor, Cures, Cassidy’s, Flaxen read, Jimmy Leddy, Red Flannel, Praising, Holy Water, Prayer. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

109 John Fallon, James Dockery, Strokestown Park House, e Troubles, e Square, 2013 Olive Mahon, Major Hales, Football Field, Strokestown Land Commission, Tommy Massey the Butler, Show Committee, Croquet, e Emergency, Scramogue Ambush, Cloonfree School, Josie Kelly, Ms Carlos Bawn Street, Dr Dan Kelly.

110 Bridget Lane, Noel Molloy, Fuerty, Master Frawley, Fuerty National “Judeanne”, 2007 School, Benny Lane, Work Permits in , Four Roads, German Bombs, Builder/Stonemason, Roscommon Fr. Flanagan of Boystown, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Dr. Harrington, John McCormack

111 John Kerrigan, Noel Molloy, Connaught Rangers, John Harlow, Circular Road, 2009 Battle of Ypres, Dunkirk, Peninsular War, Roscommon Brian Ború March, Henry Street, e Troubles, Connaught Rangers Mutiny, Captain Croon, e Maddens, Trapping Goldnches, Johnny Sammon, Francis Ledwidge Poet.

112 Joseph , James Dockery, Ballybay School, Master Shine, Corporal Capalisheen, 2013 Punishment, Fr. Hardigan, Scholarships, Kiltoom, Christian Brothers, Frank Eivers, Athlone Ballygar Con Making, Funerals, McCauley Foundry, Half-Barrel Caravans, Wave Stones, Fr. Hughes, Weasel Stone, Rabbits

113 Pat Harrington, Sean Ra ery e Big Blizzard, Light and Heat, Fairs, Mullendu, with Fintan Bruen, e Ecomomic War, Black and Tans, Mantua, 2012 Big Houses, De Valera, Politics, School Days Castlerea in Mantua, Shops and Families around Ballingare & Cart Making.

114 Tommy Connor, Sean Ra ery Ballingare Horse Fair, Foootball, Finnerty's, Ballingar, with Fintan Bruen, Making Cloth, Carpenters, Saw Mill, Castlerea 2012 District Nurse, First Cars in the area, Landless Holdings, Walking Animals Home from Fairs.

115 St. Patricks Interviewer: Opened in 1940, this hospital operated as Hospital, John McLoughlin, a district mental hospital and intermittently Castlerea Recorder: as a TB sanatorium until it closed in 1994. Sean Browne, is video recalls the story of the hospital 1994 and those who worked there. RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

116 Albert Siggins, James Dockery, Lecture on 'Hairballs' given to the County Castlestrange, 2013 Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Athleague Society: Hair Balls, National Museum in Dublin, Cork Public Museum, Kerry County Museum, Sliotar, Gutta-percha, Brehon Laws, Hurling, Standardization of Sliotárs, Fishing Line from Horse Hair, Museum Displays, May Day Balls, Monaghan Saddlery Collection, GAA Ban on Foreign Games and Entertainments, Dr. Douglas Hyde.

117 Jim Ganly, James Dockery, Talk to the Dr John Harrison Bicentennial Cloonarragh, 2015 Conference: Napoleonic Wars, Mendicants, Roscommon County Roscommon Workhouses, Board of Guardians, Dr. Conry, Design of Workhouse Buildings, Diet, Clothing, Work, Bedlam, Cost of Upkeep, Chapel, Fever Hospital, Memorial Garden, Bully's Acre, Workhouse Records, Dr. John Harrison, Harrison Memorial Hall.

118 Julian Harrison, James Dockery, Talk to the Dr. John Harrison Bicentennial Australia 2015 Conference about the Life and Career of Dr. John Harrison 1815-1890: Catholic Doctor and Surgeon, Testimonial Dinner & Gi , Memorial Committee, Harrison Hall, Grave, Australia, Gold Rush, Newspaper Articles, Famine, Roscommon Workhouse, Fever Hospital, Greyhounds, Racehorses, Potions, Website.

119 William James Dockery, Talk entitled “Tobacco, Clay and Pipes - Gacquin, 2015 A Rural Industry" at the Claypipe Visitor Whitepark, Centre Knockcroghery: Clay Pipes, Wakes, Curraghboy, Tobacco, Annual Plant, Nicotiana Tabacum, Athlone Sir Walter Raleigh, Clay Pipes, Pipe Smoker's Cancer, 1641 Depositions, Murder, Accounts, Synge Census, Knockcroghery, Use of Clay, Tobacco Spinner, Car Men, Sources of Clay, Kilns, Pipe Production, Customs, Wakes, Family Buisness, Black and Tans Attack on Knockcroghery, Claims, Fairs, Tolls, Growing Tobacco, Pipe Production Process.

120 Philomena and John O'Shea, Glendeer Animal Farm, Milk Quota, Deer, Eamonn 1990 Bord Fáilte, Deer Wire, Una Bhan, Brochure, O'Connell, Birds, Animals, Old Cottage. Curryroe, Drum, Athlone RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

121 Dr. Michael James Dockery, Lecture "William Wilde: 1815 to 1876 Ryan, 2014 Folklorist and Author" by Dr. Michael Ryan, Dublin at Castlerea Library: omas Wilde, Emily Finn, Diocesan College Elphin, Irish Popular Superstitions, Fr. Prendergast, Medical Studies, Voyage, Travels, Medical Research, Royal Irish Academy, Ordnance Survey, George Petrie, Archaeology, Speranza, 1851 Census, Mary Travers, Libel Trial, Family Loss, Lectures, Politics, Funeral, Elegy.

122 Oliver James Dockery, Talk to Dr. John Harrison Bicentennial McGuinness, 2015 Conference at Roscommon County Library Roscommon 'Medicine and Pharmacy in the 19th Century: Association of Remedies in the Pharmacy with Dr. John Harrison, Famine, Diseases, Stomach Pills, Pharmacy Practice, Drugs, Harrison's Pills, Formula's, Pioneers of Modern Medicine.

123 Fr. Raymond Marian Harlow, Muintir na Tire, Canon Hayes, Fr. McDyer Browne, 2016 of Glencolmcille, Drumboylan, Agricultural Parochial House Institute Test Farm, Social Welfare Provision, Four Mile House Vegetable Growing, Muintir na Tire Chairman, e United Nations Connection, Rural Electrication, National Work Camp Trinity Island, Honorary Degree NUIG.

124 May & Sean Mary O’Connell, Paddy Moran of Crossna, Early Life, Moran, 2016 Countermanding Order, , Crossna, Imprisonment, Events, Boyle Arrest & Trial, Execution, Impact on Family, Bea Farrell, State Funeral 2001, Ambush, Other Local Killings, 1960s Commemorations.

125 Leo Corrigan, Margaret Garvey, School, Apprenticeship, Johnny Madden, New York & 2015 Wheelwrights, Making Carts, Kiltibanks, Working in England, Dances, Ballaghaderreen Travel to America, Luxury Ship, Working in America, e Catskills, Community RECORDED BY NAME & 1916 AUDIO/ REF & DATE OF TOPICS ADDRESS :2016 VIDEO RECORDING

126 Mae Cunni e, Diane Dunnigan, Grandparents, Family, Jobs Around the House, Forteld House, 2002 e Black and Tans, IRA, RIC, Ration Books, Cappalisheen, Emigration, IRA Kidnap, e Banshee, Kiltoom School, Games, Halloween, Christmas, Wrenboys, Bonres, House Dances, Maypole Dances, Card Playing, Electricity, e Dispensary; Register Births, Deaths & Marriages.

127 Diane Noel Molloy, San Francisco, Irish Community, Social Clubs, Dunnigan, 2007 Army Corp of Engineers, Genealogy, U.S.A NUI Maynooth, Maggie Brennan, Land Commission, Fairs, Returned Yank, Community Spirit, RIC, e American Letter, e American Wake, Sailing as a Single young Woman, Ellis Island, A Kitchen Racket, How to Keep House.

128 Elizabeth Mary O’ Connell, Growing up in Gowel, Co. Leitrim; Mo att, 2016 Woman’s Work – Farm & House, Moyoran, also present Sheemore Ambush, Black and Tans, Leitrim PO, John Mo att Married Life for Farmer’s Wife in 1950s, Carrick-on- School Trip to Kilmainham Gaol 1966, Shannon Selton Hill, Mong Hill, WW2 Rationing, Christmas Shop, School Days, Cures.

129 Tarmon Talk by: Commemoration of e War of Commemorates Gerard O’Rourke, Independence at Tarmon, Castlerea. the War of Recorded by: Independence Sean Browne, 2016

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