Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Locations
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0053
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- "Ba-ba, Black Sheep, Have you any wool?"
Yes, sir, three bags full:-
One for the master and one for the dean
And one for the little boy that cries down the lane"
belongs to a much earlier period i.e. to the days of the tithes, when there was one bag for the landlord, one for the minister & the proctor and the remainder for the tenant and his family
Some extraordinary penances were imposed on penitents in those days such as wearing a horse's collar for so many Sundays at the chapel gate, or appearing in a white sheet in front of the congregation (no title)
“The Parnell Split assumed...”
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