School: Druimín (roll number 9438)
- Location:
- Drummeen, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)They play music and others dance the bride. They get a few mugs of Porter each but some people hunt them by taking a gun to them. They dress up in straw.
- Other notes taken from other compositions on the same subject. I am not repeating the same stuff.The Grooms Man is generally a brother to the Groom and the brides maid a sister to the bride. After the breakfast they go to the nearest big town for a drive and when they come back the bride and groom go to the grooms house and they ask all the neighbours and friends to the house & they dance and sing until the morning. She calls the callers or unknown visitors band beggars and suggests that they are dressed in rags & straw. The bride does not go home until she(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jim Browne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim