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  1. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  2. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  3. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  4. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  5. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  6. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  7. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  8. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  9. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  10. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  11. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  12. (no title)

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

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  13. (no title)

    “The corpse was usually washed and "left over board" by some old woman, the local midwife.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  14. (no title)

    “The dead man's razor was used for shaving the corpse.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  15. (no title)

    “Patrick Duffy, when questioned, said that he saw the water with which the corpse had been washed being thrown...”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  16. (no title)

    “The habit is usually put on the dying person before death supervenes.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  17. (no title)

    “When Patrick Duffy's sister died, he thought it very strange that her eyes were not closed.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  18. (no title)

    “Many corpses are laid out on the table.”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  19. (no title)

    “When the coffin is taken out it is placed on chairs outside the door...”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy

  20. (no title)

    “Duffy mentioned a man who, when dying, asked his relatives to bring a bottle of whiskey to the grave-yard...”

    CBÉ 0581

    Lore

    3 January 1939

    P.S. Duffy