School: Foxrock (St Brigid's)
- Location:
- Foxrock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: S. Ní Mhaolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0799, Page 60
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- (continued from previous page)horses.
When they are big, and strong the travellers sell them.
- There are various types of travellers. Some go around earning their living. Others are just begging. Gypsies keep to themselves, and have their own customs. A strange one of theirs is that of burning the van and all the belongings of a dead gypsy, for fear of ghosts which they believe in.
When they have finished their day's work, they all assemble around a large fire for their amusements. There is hardly a gypsy that has not hair as black as a raven. Once a gypsy came to our door, and wanted to tell my mother her fortune. But she did not, she only said that there would be a letter on its way across the sea for her, and sure enough a letter came from America the following week. The Tinkers are another tribe - some go around in families.
Every year in the Summer for about the last eleven years, a man and his wife come around the district of Stillorgan.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Christina Licken
- Other names
- Christina Licken
- Cristína Ní Lideadha
- Gender
- Female
