Imleabhar: CBÉ 0407 (Cuid 2)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal)

   “Those buried eggs are still going strong...”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Those buried eggs are still going strong in spite of all the priests have had to say about them from the alter for some years past. This dreadful practice is becoming more general and much more virulent in its propensities. At our last mission (Cappawhite 1936) missioners: “I’m told that the man who fired on the woman who was taking his butter by piseog’s only wounded her, more’s the pity”
   [I think I wrote at length about this matter in Book 1]

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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   Cineál míre

   Seanchas

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Modh scríbhneoireachta

   Lámhscríofa

   Script scríbhneoireachta

   Cló Rómhánach

2. Never Say to the Priest that the Person is Dead

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   If a person dies suddenly, i bhfad uainn an t-olc, the priest is sent for. When he arrives he may ask: "Is he (or she) dead?. If he gets an answer in the affirmative, he is powerless to anoint. If the answer is 'No' or I don't know he can anoint no matter how long the person is dead. Great blame is attached to the 'gabber' who anticipates the priest by exclaiming: "Oh you'r too late he's dead". We have so many who know not gur binn béal 'na thost. This is a common ( and hereabouts universal) belief. Not being a theologian in "medium" relinquam!

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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3. Tombstones

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Tombstones: All tomb-stones face due East. Corpse carried round graveyard (inside) sunwise. No special provision in this part of the country for unbaptised infants or suicides.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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