Peter Sloan, aged 72, Bavan, Omeath, Gaelic speaker. He is planting potatoes at his home with a spade.

Seamus Murray, 50 John Dillon Street.

James Loughran, aged 74. Farmer, sheepman and "beetler" in a mill in Ravensdale, Jonesboro Parish.

Commandant D.V. Horgan.

Hughie the Tacker. A son of Anne O'Hanlon of Lislea, last surviving Gaelic speaker.

Portrait. Elderly man walking along Beresford Place, outside Customs House, Dublin.

Eddie O'Hanlon of Omeath, the current ferryman at Narrow Water.

Paddy Buttner.

Charlie McQuade, aged 68, of Ardaghy, Omeath. Still has much of the native Gaelic. His mother, Marie McQuade, is a noted singer and storyteller in Gaelic.

Harry (Henry) Ardiff, a stonecutter, from Leixlip, on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1965.

Commandant D.V. Horgan.

Tommy and Maggie Carroll, Ringsend, in Smith’s Pub, with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne.

Joe Thules.

Betty Domican (née Byrne), with two generations of her family and (left) Dr. Kelly Fitzgerald.

Ediphone, Poulaphuca.

Collector/Informant. É. Ní Dhuibhne Recording Tommy and Maggie Carroll, Smith’s Pub, Ringsend, Dublin.

Kieran Darcy (Senior) and grandchildren at Kierans fireplace, Clonascra, Clonfanlough.

Paddy Buttner.

Ann O’Reilly, Mara Nic Lochlainn.

Children.

Patrick Lehane.

Gretta Walsh, née Killeen, contributor to Schools’ Folklore Collection, Howth NS, with her three daughters. From left Margaret Wilkinson, Pauline Day, Kathleen O’Reilly.

Tom McGee, aged 76, stonemason and fisherman, Drumallagh, Omeath.

Paddy Buttner.