DocArchive (1976): The Three Candles




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Summary: <br><p style="background: #fffffff;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background: undefined ;">Kilkenny man Colm Ó Lochlainn was a printer, collector of Irish ballads and a piper. He founded his own press, At the Sign of the Three Candles Press in 1926. He wrote and published Irish Street Ballads in 1939 and More Irish Street Ballads in 1965.  </span>He later became professor of Irish Language and Literature. He was also associated with the founding of An Óige<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background: undefined ;"> (First Broadcast 1976)</span><p></p></p>