EPISODE · Aug 26, 2009 · 43 MIN
DocArchive: A Poet and his People
from Documentary on One Podcast · host RTÉ
Antoine Ó Raifteirí was born Co. Mayo in 1779. He was the only child in his large family to survive a smallpox outbreak although the disease left him blind. A travelling bard, he was known as the ‘Kiltimagh Fiddler’. (First Broadcast 1957)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Antoine Ó Raifteirí was born Co. Mayo in 1779. He was the only child in his large family to survive a smallpox outbreak although the disease left him blind. A travelling bard, he was known as the ‘Kiltimagh Fiddler’. (First Broadcast 1957)
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