Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 3)

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1. Old Customs - Deoch Altaithe

   

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   The following is an old custom handed down from time immemorial and still continued in my uncle's home (Thomas McHugh [?], [?] Galway) On St. Martin's Night, Christmas Night, New Year's night + Twelfth Night after supper, and after dinner on Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Twelfth Day all members of the family sit around the table and offer thanksgiving to God for the meal they have partaken of, for all God's goodness to them during the year and asking the Lord to bless them in the coming year. Each member blesses himself, the head of the family then says one Our Father, one Hail Mary +

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Thomas McHugh