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1. Wake Games (continued)

   

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   at the wake was very fond of music, and when he heard that this man was after coming he went down to the kitchen, where the travelling man was and asked him to play a few tunes. The man started off. It wasn't long until a dance started, and was kept up for an hour or so.
   There was another man waking at Kilmore Quay many years ago, and it was a bright moonlight night. All the men at the wake went outside, and started a game of "pitch and toss"
   There was a man waking in Gallbally one night, and there were a crowd of fellows talking in the kitchen. They were talking about cars with big wheels. Some of them said that it was twice

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   History Edit

   Date

   6 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Tomás de Buitléir