the O'Brien banshee and the night before my granduncle drowned

This is a Clare thing and it's in my own family so I'll tell it straight. The O'Briens have a banshee attached to the name going way back — she has a proper name, Aoibheall (you'd say it close to 'Eeval'), and she's said to keen by the Shannon before a death in the line. Now I'm an O'Brien on my mot……