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Pat Cassidy

Reference code
HOYFM.ACL2025.18
Level of description
Fonds
Title
Pat Cassidy
Scope and content
Pat (Paddy) Cassidy was a publican who established a folk museum at the Corner Bar in Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh. This archive comprises typescripts of poems, stories and anecdotes mainly of local superstitions, folklore, sayings, and verse collected from individuals in the vicinity of Lisnaskea and Derrylin, a photocopy of a diary written by Cassidy and sent to Jonathan Bell at the Museum and photocopies of handwritten stories and reminiscences with reference made to areas in Fermanagh, Cavan and Monaghan.
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