Micheál Ó Síoda was an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 scribe

Scribe

A scribe is a person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession and helps the city keep track of its records. The profession, previously found in all literate cultures in some form, lost most of its importance and status with the advent of printing...

 and folklorist

Irish mythology

The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branch and the Historical Cycle. There are...

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Ó Síoda was a native of Carnmore

Carnmore

Carnmore is located at the southern end of the parish of Claregalway, approximately east of Galway city in County Galway, Ireland. Carnmore lies within the Gaeltacht although the vast majority of residents there use English as their first language...

, and knowledgeable about the history of the parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 of Lackagh

Lackagh

The parish of Lackagh or Lacagh is located in County Galway in the West of Ireland, approximately half way between Galway city and Tuam . It is bounded by the parishes of Athenry, Abbeyknockmoy, Corofin, Annaghdown and Claregalway...

-Turloughmore

Turloughmore

Turloughmore is a village in County Galway, Ireland. The name means "the large lake," a notable feature of the area, together with the Clare River ....

 in County Galway

County Galway

County Galway is a county in Ireland. It is located in the West Region and is also part of the province of Connacht. It is named after the city of Galway. Galway County Council is the local authority for the county. There are several strongly Irish-speaking areas in the west of the county...

. He was an especial authority on the Fair of Turloughmore

Turloughmore

Turloughmore is a village in County Galway, Ireland. The name means "the large lake," a notable feature of the area, together with the Clare River ....

, and its accompanying faction fights. Much of his material has found its way into print in local history books.

In 1909 he wrote a book called Leahar na nAmhrán, which included handwritten songs received from Pádhraic Ó Comáin

Pádhraic Ó Comáin

Pádhraic Ó Comáin was an Irish scribe.Ó Comáin was from Pairce O Cuaman, Creig Mhóir, Leacach . His scribal work consists of folk songs, poetry, Fianna stories, and poems by Antoine Ó Raifteiri, and the brothers Marcus and Peatsaí Ó Callanáin...

 of Cregmore

Cregmore

Cregmore is a small rural area situated in the parish of Lackagh, County Galway, Ireland. It has a soccer club, a primary school and a golf course. The school is trying to collect funds to build a new school hall through fundraising events such as A BBQ a jumble sale and just recently a fashion...

. A copy, by Ciarán Bairéad

Ciáran Bairéad

Ciáran Bairéad, Irish folklore expert, scribe and scholar, fl. 1950s - 1970s.Bairéad was a native of County Galway and a graduate of Galway University. He worked with the Irish Folklore Commission and An Fáinne, the later organisation been established to promote the Irish language, its members...

, is kept at the Department of Irish Folklore at University College Dublin

University College Dublin

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, along with interviews of Ó Síoda.