Lizzie Jeffreys
person
3 mentions
1 recordings
first heard Sep 2026
last heard yesterday
↑3 vs the 12 months before
Irish ballad singer and keeper of Yola stories
Trend
Peak in the week of 21 Sep — 3 mentions across 1 series.
Moments
newest first · ▶ plays the momentJohn EganSunday Miscellany · One Time, a poem by AM Cousins · 3:06 · today
…I never asked, too shy at seventeen, if that time when Heaney took the time to drive down south, if he ever found Lizzie Jeffreys, Queen of Ballads, keeper of our stories, our Yola woman.…
John EganSunday Miscellany · One Time, a poem by AM Cousins · 1:21 · today
…Perhaps he got lost around Killinick and had to pull in and ask if anyone knew of Lizzie Jeffreys, all Ireland ballad singer, keeper of the old stories, last speaker of Yola.…
UnknownSunday Miscellany · One Time, a poem by AM Cousins · 0:13 · today
…Jeffreys, to talk to her about the old Yola dialect.…
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