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School: Liathdruim

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Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0012

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    “If you wash a man's shirt and put it to the fire to dry the woman that he will marry will come to take it.”

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    would come and tear you asunder
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    “To get a snail and put him into an oven and cover with the lid”

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pauline Hardiman
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Michael Hardiman
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    53
    Address
    Kilmacrah, Co. Galway

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    “There was once a man who lived a few parishes away from here and he had a wife and children.”

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    There was once a man who lived a few parishes away from here and he had a wife and children.
    After a while he died. One night a knock came to the window and called out "Nancy". She was afraid to get up. The second time Nancy was called she said who is there, the, the answer was "your husband John". She asked him what was wrong and he said he was in great trouble. "I owe ten pounds to a man and I cannot go to heaven until I pay it"
    "Well" said she "I am sorry I have no money in the house. If you wait until tomorrow night
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