by Irish Beo Author | Aug 19, 2017 | Stories - The Bog
In this episode Tom Brennan recites to his son, a pupil in St. Patrick’s National School Kiltormer, boyhood memories of the bog including the introduction of mechanisation, eating food from tins and catching frogs, ...
by Irish Beo Author | Jul 25, 2017 | Stories - Rural Life
Maisie Sherlock’s life encompasses the history of modern Ireland. She was born in 1921 when the country was still part of the British Empire, grew up on a small farm where the seasons dominated the economic and social life of society, where the Catholic Church...
by Irish Beo Author | Jul 25, 2017 | Stories - Rural Life
From the 1940s up until the late 1970s, the travelling shop was an important part of rural Ireland. For much of this period, people living on farms and villages travelled by foot or by wooden cart pulled by a horse, pony or donkey. It was the travelling shop,...
by Irish Beo Author | Jul 19, 2017 | Stories - The Bog
In this interview pupils of St. Patrick’s National School in Kiltormer listen to a sprightly Michael Kilkenny, still hale and hearty at over 90yrs old, tell whimsical tales of the bog duck, the pregnant sow and the A1 man. ...
by Irish Beo Author | Jul 19, 2017 | Stories - The Bog
In this episode Seamus Curley talks to the pupils and teachers of St. Patrick’s National School Kiltormer about when Mrs Hardy’s ass lost its temper on the way to Chesterfield Bog. ...
