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  1. (gan teideal)

    Duffy says that it is believed that people who do not lead good lives go towards the North when they die.

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  2. (gan teideal)

    A man who was blamed by a girl as being the father of her child died.

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    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  3. (gan teideal)

    No drink is given out at wakes now. The priests stopped that.

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  4. (gan teideal)

    Offerings of money were made at every funeral in Drumhalry in former times.

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    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  5. (gan teideal)

    Coffins were got from the town, or a neighbouring carpenter would make them in the barn where he worked.

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  6. (gan teideal)

    When questioned about things being put into the coffin with the corpse...

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  7. (gan teideal)

    Another game played at wakes was known as "Making Poitín".

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  8. (gan teideal)

    During Duffy's young days the priest stopped all the wake games.

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  9. (gan teideal)

    The ould Irish wake games" in the Co. Leitrim were, duffy says, more original games than the Longford ones...

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  10. (gan teideal)

    Of course the very young and the very old people never took part in the wake games.

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  11. (gan teideal)

    Duffy says that he often heard of mock-marriages like the 'nine daughters' being played at wakes.

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  12. (gan teideal)

    When the priest wanted to stop the games he spoke from the Altar about them.

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  13. (gan teideal)

    When Patrick Duffy's father died, Patrick had eight gallons of whiskey at his father's funeral.

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  14. (gan teideal)

    At a wake when a person was offered a pipe he could refuse it...

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  15. (gan teideal)

    A plate of snuff was laid on the table beside the corpse.

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    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  16. (gan teideal)

    A wake game called the "Nine Daughters" has already been published in Béaloideas from Mr. Duffy.

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  17. (gan teideal)

    Another game played at wakes in Drumhalry was called "Shuffle the Brogue".

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  18. (gan teideal)

    Another game played at wakes was in the nature of a slapping game.

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  19. (gan teideal)

    The Banshee followed the Reillys.

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  20. (gan teideal)

    Duffy's father often sold butter and flax in the town of Cavan which was the best market for butter.

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    Seanchas

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy