by Irish Beo Author | Jul 17, 2017 | Stories - The Bog
Down on the Bog In this episode Mary Muldoon tells the pupils of St. Patrick’s National School Kiltormer about her long working days on the bog as a small girl https://irishbeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/KIlMaryMuldoon-1-1.m4aPodcast: Play in new...
by Irish Beo Author | Jul 17, 2017 | Stories - The Bog
Down on the Bog – Stories from an Irish Bog. In this episode Gerry Kelly describes the workings of turf cutting and explains. amongst other things. how a donkey was kept afloat in a wet bog!....
by Irish Beo Author | Jul 12, 2017 | Stories from the old Schoolhouse
PJ Lawless reminisces about his school days during the 1940s when the children and adults of the community of Killalaghton in county Galway thrived and benefited from the vision, energy, teaching and humanity of the local school principal Mr. Josie O’Halloran. In an...
by Irish Beo Author | May 19, 2017 | Stories - The Bog
Down on the Bog In this episode traditional musician Patsy Downey is asked by the pupils of St. Patrick’s National School Kiltormer about his memories of cutting turf in a local bog. ...
by Irish Beo Author | Apr 19, 2017 | Stories - The Bog
Down on the Bog In this episode Bernie Larkin describes to pupils of St. Patrick’s National School Kiltormer a typical day working in Coxtown Bog during the late 1940s and early 1950s ...
