School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)
- Location:
- Maolán na nGabhar, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Braoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 187
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- One Christmas morning an old man and woman were going to mass when they heard a bird singing. The man said to his wife, "I never heard a blackbird singing so nice before." "Thats not a blackbird its a thrush', said his wife. "I say its a blackbird", "I say its a thrush". So they fought the whole way going to mass. When they came home from mass. The missus said to John "Will you ever forget us fighting going to mass about the blackbird." "Sure" said John, "that wasn't a thrush it was a blackbird." I say it was a thrush" and such an unhappy Christmas they never spent. When the next Christmas came they went to mass and when they came home she said to John, "Will you ever forget the way we spent last Christmas fighting about the blackbird" and he said "It wasn't a thrush and they fought that whole day and every Christmas for seven years they fought about the blackbird and the thrush.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sceach an Scorlógaigh, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- Mrs Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sceach an Scorlógaigh, Co. Loch Garman
