OT 11103 Track 1
from "1972." by Henry Glassie, In F-635 Irish Music and Culture
By David McDonald



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Notebook, file 6, pp. 1414-1419.
August 29, 1972, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
Hugh Nolan
Continuation of story of Black Francis, a highwayman and Supple Corrigan.
Carleton’s William Riley novel and ballad.
Story about fairies and a forth on a hilltop.
House on fairy pass.
Forths on hilltops.
Collector’s documentation lists “City life versus country life” but this is a story Hugh Nolan read in the newspaper about a man who tricks a father into thinking his daughter’s fiancé is insane so that he will let her marry another suitor. He does this
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