Songs, stories & other gleanings

 

"St Barre preserve me from the malediction of the monks of Cork."

Two Irish trickster tales:

The Vision of Mac Con Glinne,  long, food mania) and O'Donnell's Kern

 

The Sage Fraji Shawat

 

*The Death of Carey

 

The Domicile Erected by Jack

 

Twas a Night, Almost Christmas

 

The Fish Whisperer

 

The Dentist and His Customer

 

Morraha, an Irish hero tale

 

Songs of songs  A fad starting of the latter 1800’s -- songs made up of the titles of other songs

 

Arthur O’Neill’s visit to Killarney

 

Learn 19th century American Sign Language! Transcription and notes for turn-of-the-century films in ASL: The Preservation of the Sign Language, by George W. Veditz;

(Coming soon: *Old Times in Hartford by J. B. Hotchkiss; *The Invention of Ether by Chicago’s George Dougherty.)

 

Young Deafula -- poster for one of the first ASL movies nationally distributed.

 

Photographs of the birthplace of Patsy Touhey, America's most celebrated Irish piper.

 

The Birthday Party, a vaudeville sketch starring Patsy Touhey.

 

Words to old songs that are hard to find on the net.

 

Words to some old calypsos.

 

 

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