Biddy Early
person
3 mentions
3 recordings
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 24 Jul
↑3 vs the 12 months before
19th‑century Irish folk healer and storyteller
Trend
Peak in the week of 18 Jul — 2 mentions across 2 series.
Moments
newest first · ▶ plays the momentPJ Hughes (club president) / PJ (Loftus) - Club elder (identified as PJ)The Claire Byrne Show · The excitement is building in Mayo · 6:51 · 24 Jul
…There was Biddy Early and Clare and there was the... Just a superstition.…
Frank RocheThe Indo Daily · The Mayo Curse – priests, witches and sporting hokum · 18:06 · 23 Jul
…But it also was the end of the curse of Biddy Early, who supposedly had cast a curse that Clare would not win another All-Ireland.…
Manchán MaganBrendan O'Connor · From the archive: Manchán Magan kicks-off summer with a nak... · 2:24 · 25 Apr
…This has been a long tradition, like every great witch you can think of, from Biddy Early to Alice Kittler in Kilkenny, would have been doing this on the same day, dawn on the 1st of May.…
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