Michael only came across you're website lately what a fantist job you're doing recording folklore from times past just watching may and stachia at the moment what a beautiful conversation with two lovely ladies by god it brings back some wonderful memories from times past I can relate to everything that they are talking about keep up the good work should have been done years ago so sad to think of all the folklore that has been lost down through the years
I'm 66 now and this brought lovely memories and a few tears to my eyes of my grand parents who i lived with until I was 4.. Nana was a Murphy before she married and was born in Wexford.. and Grand daddy was a Butler from Ballycahill Tipp each came from large farming familes I used to love listening to their stories whilst sitting by the open fire at night ... especially when my great aunts and uncles would visit ..and they would talk about their childhood May and Stasia , lovely ladies x ..
I love this folklore......glad somebody like you is doing such wonderful work.....a great legacy....KUDOS. It is tragic that so much folklore is lost because people 'never got around to it'. Goodness what the future holds as today's generation don't seem to be interested.
Notes on the Interview: Where they were born. • Early years. Eldest child stayed with the grandmother. • Their late sister Kathleen • Redmond surname - plentiful surname in Ballyduff • May’s nickname as a child • Black Pat Redmond and other Redmond names. • Dick Redmond who fought in WW1. Also Tom Kinsella who lost an arm in the war too. • Pronunciation of Ballygarra (Ballygarrett) • Mary ‘Pat’ Redmond and Mary ‘Charlie’ Redmond - Wife takes on husbands name when names were similar. • Named after mothers and aunts. • Their children and how they got their names. • A family member who in the RIC in Dublin • Surviving Irish words. Greasigh (Greasach), Skeagh, Brus and Breasna • Collecting dry cow dung for fuel for baking bread • Milking cows in the fields • Collecting gravel from the beach • Climbing on ricks of hay in the haggards • Making hay ropes • House dances on threshing day • Neddy Connors on the accordion • Cleaning the dresser after the dances. “Stand back and mind the dresser” • Neighbours helped each other. No money back then. • Lived from the land - what they grew themselves. • Only shopped once a week. • Coupon books during the war • Eating at the batch loaf. • Made their own bread. They had their own wheat ground and stored it in floor bins. • Making sheets out of flour bags. • Praskeen aprons. • Boiling potatoes in a big pot. • Potatoes put out in middle of table. • The men got the meat and the women/girls didn’t • Kill a pig at Christmas and during the year also. • Salting the pig • Smoking the bacon in the chimney • Salting the herrings in an enamel bucket • Cooking herrings on the grid iron • Gutted herrings with heads left on • Herrings would be preserved from October to March • The Cahore Herrings and notions • Buying a ‘mace’ of herrings and selling them in horse and cart • Selling mutton by horse and cart. Kearney brothers. • Johnny Connors from Kilmuckidge selling meat by horse and cart. • Dumplings in the stew • Colcannon - made over fire at Halloween • Colcannon recipes • Home-made Barm Braic - objects in them • Money in Colcannon • Sign of the cross on bread when baking • Churning and making butter • Put your hand to the churn or else profit would be taken • Leave butter for the fairies • Strange lights • Pisherógs (Local pronunciation of pisheógs) • Jack the Lantern, Ghosts and the Banshee - Stories and Understanding • The Bow (The Banshee) combing her hair with a silver comb • Hearing the banshee/bow (ie a fox) • The Bows Comb • A comb was called a hair rack • People with long hair including their mother • Washing in carbolic soap • Washing clothes with washboard • The arrival of the mains water and the Group Scheme • The washing machine and spinner - huge changes (circa 1966) • May got mains water in Glascarrig in 1981 • May drawing water from the well. • Gathering water from the shoot • Cooking on open fire until circa 1955 • The arrival of the gas cooker in 1956 • Recipes for gas cooker • A paraffin oil cooker • Arrival of electricity in 1949 • Sean Redmond began the agent for the gas cookers in the village • May got her first gas cooker in November in 1956 • Using gas cooker to dry clothes if needed • Hard work but happy days • Their mother was great singer • Their source of songs and music. Local and international via radio stations • Ballroom dancing in Kilmuckridge and Courtown • The KMH when it was a marquee. • The Davit Brothers - Old Ticket • Old picturehouse/cinema in Ballygarrett • Local Teachers - Mannion and Rossiter • May’s daughter Mary starting school. • May’s son Danny starting school. • The building of the new school in Ballygarrett - started in 1969 • The old hall in Ballygarrett knocked down to make carpark for church • Describing the old hall • Neill’s (O’Neills) of Oldtown built the hall. • There was also an old school in the church carpark • Their father and mother were born in 1909? • How their mother got her name • Old shops and pubs in village. Bill Dinny’s thatched pub owned by John and Bill Redmond. Now gone. • Miss Keanes - dressmakers between Wafers and The Schooner. • The two Miss Keanes • Murphy’s before Keoghs (The Schooner) • Johnny Cullen’s Shop - galvanise building adjoining his thatched house. Located between Tom Dempseys thatched house and Bill Dinny’s Pub. • A whole street of thatched houses. • Pender’s shop on Cahore Road • May Hughes shop - Ballyoughna • Shop over at Hughes River between Kehoes and Sinnotts burrows. • Various Crowe nicknames • People coming on holidays • Ennis’s lived in the Hermitage in Cahore (Kennealys) • Hurling field across from Crowes • Master Dunnes house across from Crowes. • Nancy and Arthur Hanly • The Clonevin Ceili Band - Lar Cardiff, Dan Whelan, Ned Doyle (fiddle), Jack Quirke • Their granny was a Doyle of Ballyougher. • Johnny and Ned Doyle - two fiddle players • The Clonevin Ceili Band (around the 1940) • May was born on the 18th of December 1933 and Statia was born on the 1st of March 1939. • A song their Aunt Statia used to sing. • Statia and May sings about a rooster.
Michael I love listening to the beautiful stories from years ago 🥰but as I was listening to the lady who was a redmond who married a redmond I’m wondering if she realises she has a cure for the whopping cough . My mother was Farrell and married a Farrell and because of that she had the cure.she makes bread and the cure is in the bread😊
Michael I'm in stitches here listening to may and stachia keep up the good work
Michael only came across you're website lately what a fantist job you're doing recording folklore from times past just watching may and stachia at the moment what a beautiful conversation with two lovely ladies by god it brings back some wonderful memories from times past I can relate to everything that they are talking about keep up the good work should have been done years ago so sad to think of all the folklore that has been lost down through the years
Lovely listening to may and statia two great lady’s 💕🌺
I'm 66 now and this brought lovely memories and a few tears to my eyes of my grand parents who i lived with until I was 4.. Nana was a Murphy before she married and was born in Wexford.. and Grand daddy was a Butler from Ballycahill Tipp each came from large farming familes I used to love listening to their stories whilst sitting by the open fire at night ... especially when my great aunts and uncles would visit ..and they would talk about their childhood May and Stasia , lovely ladies x ..
I love this folklore......glad somebody like you is doing such wonderful work.....a great legacy....KUDOS.
It is tragic that so much folklore is lost because people 'never got around to it'.
Goodness what the future holds as today's generation don't seem to be interested.
Notes on the Interview:
Where they were born.
• Early years. Eldest child stayed with the grandmother.
• Their late sister Kathleen
• Redmond surname - plentiful surname in Ballyduff
• May’s nickname as a child
• Black Pat Redmond and other Redmond names.
• Dick Redmond who fought in WW1. Also Tom Kinsella who lost an arm in the war too.
• Pronunciation of Ballygarra (Ballygarrett)
• Mary ‘Pat’ Redmond and Mary ‘Charlie’ Redmond - Wife takes on husbands name when names were similar.
• Named after mothers and aunts.
• Their children and how they got their names.
• A family member who in the RIC in Dublin
• Surviving Irish words. Greasigh (Greasach), Skeagh, Brus and Breasna
• Collecting dry cow dung for fuel for baking bread
• Milking cows in the fields
• Collecting gravel from the beach
• Climbing on ricks of hay in the haggards
• Making hay ropes
• House dances on threshing day
• Neddy Connors on the accordion
• Cleaning the dresser after the dances. “Stand back and mind the dresser”
• Neighbours helped each other. No money back then.
• Lived from the land - what they grew themselves.
• Only shopped once a week.
• Coupon books during the war
• Eating at the batch loaf.
• Made their own bread. They had their own wheat ground and stored it in floor bins.
• Making sheets out of flour bags.
• Praskeen aprons.
• Boiling potatoes in a big pot.
• Potatoes put out in middle of table.
• The men got the meat and the women/girls didn’t
• Kill a pig at Christmas and during the year also.
• Salting the pig
• Smoking the bacon in the chimney
• Salting the herrings in an enamel bucket
• Cooking herrings on the grid iron
• Gutted herrings with heads left on
• Herrings would be preserved from October to March
• The Cahore Herrings and notions
• Buying a ‘mace’ of herrings and selling them in horse and cart
• Selling mutton by horse and cart. Kearney brothers.
• Johnny Connors from Kilmuckidge selling meat by horse and cart.
• Dumplings in the stew
• Colcannon - made over fire at Halloween
• Colcannon recipes
• Home-made Barm Braic - objects in them
• Money in Colcannon
• Sign of the cross on bread when baking
• Churning and making butter
• Put your hand to the churn or else profit would be taken
• Leave butter for the fairies
• Strange lights
• Pisherógs (Local pronunciation of pisheógs)
• Jack the Lantern, Ghosts and the Banshee - Stories and Understanding
• The Bow (The Banshee) combing her hair with a silver comb
• Hearing the banshee/bow (ie a fox)
• The Bows Comb
• A comb was called a hair rack
• People with long hair including their mother
• Washing in carbolic soap
• Washing clothes with washboard
• The arrival of the mains water and the Group Scheme
• The washing machine and spinner - huge changes (circa 1966)
• May got mains water in Glascarrig in 1981
• May drawing water from the well.
• Gathering water from the shoot
• Cooking on open fire until circa 1955
• The arrival of the gas cooker in 1956
• Recipes for gas cooker
• A paraffin oil cooker
• Arrival of electricity in 1949
• Sean Redmond began the agent for the gas cookers in the village
• May got her first gas cooker in November in 1956
• Using gas cooker to dry clothes if needed
• Hard work but happy days
• Their mother was great singer
• Their source of songs and music. Local and international via radio stations
• Ballroom dancing in Kilmuckridge and Courtown
• The KMH when it was a marquee.
• The Davit Brothers - Old Ticket
• Old picturehouse/cinema in Ballygarrett
• Local Teachers - Mannion and Rossiter
• May’s daughter Mary starting school.
• May’s son Danny starting school.
• The building of the new school in Ballygarrett - started in 1969
• The old hall in Ballygarrett knocked down to make carpark for church
• Describing the old hall
• Neill’s (O’Neills) of Oldtown built the hall.
• There was also an old school in the church carpark
• Their father and mother were born in 1909?
• How their mother got her name
• Old shops and pubs in village. Bill Dinny’s thatched pub owned by John and Bill Redmond. Now gone.
• Miss Keanes - dressmakers between Wafers and The Schooner.
• The two Miss Keanes
• Murphy’s before Keoghs (The Schooner)
• Johnny Cullen’s Shop - galvanise building adjoining his thatched house. Located between Tom Dempseys thatched house and Bill Dinny’s Pub.
• A whole street of thatched houses.
• Pender’s shop on Cahore Road
• May Hughes shop - Ballyoughna
• Shop over at Hughes River between Kehoes and Sinnotts burrows.
• Various Crowe nicknames
• People coming on holidays
• Ennis’s lived in the Hermitage in Cahore (Kennealys)
• Hurling field across from Crowes
• Master Dunnes house across from Crowes.
• Nancy and Arthur Hanly
• The Clonevin Ceili Band - Lar Cardiff, Dan Whelan, Ned Doyle (fiddle), Jack Quirke
• Their granny was a Doyle of Ballyougher.
• Johnny and Ned Doyle - two fiddle players
• The Clonevin Ceili Band (around the 1940)
• May was born on the 18th of December 1933 and Statia was born on the 1st of March 1939.
• A song their Aunt Statia used to sing.
• Statia and May sings about a rooster.
Michael I love listening to the beautiful stories from years ago 🥰but as I was listening to the lady who was a redmond who married a redmond I’m wondering if she realises she has a cure for the whopping cough . My mother was Farrell and married a Farrell and because of that she had the cure.she makes bread and the cure is in the bread😊
Michael if you come across this message can you contact me I might have something that you might be interested in