DocArchive: A Poet and his People

Published: Aug. 26, 2009, noon

b'Antoine \\xd3 Raifteir\\xed 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 \\u2018Kiltimagh Fiddler\\u2019. (First Broadcast 1957)


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