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School: Dromseanbhoth (B.)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 441

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    "Fairs"
    Collected by Ephraim Reynolds from his mother Maggie Reynolds Drumshanbo.
    Fairs days in this county about fifty years ago were looked forward to by people of all classes with as much interest as an all-Ireland football final in our day. Business in cattle dealing appears to be a minor affairs on fair days. It was mostly a meeting place, for match making, organising Fenianism, and the Land League, singing and dancing, hordes of tinkers dealing in donkeys, ballad-singers who sang patriotic songs and those old ballad-singers
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trade
          1. buying and selling (~3,622)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ephraim Reynolds
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Maggie Reynolds
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim