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School: Creach na mBearna

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Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Tomás Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0230, Page 108

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  1. Food in Olden Times (continued)

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    would not break their fast for from Holy Thursday mid day to Easter Sunday morning. Many women attended at the reading of the Passion on Good Friday with bare feet and their hair hanging loose over their shoulders.
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  2. Songs

    “These are many songs composed”

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    There are many local songs composed by a man named Michael Daly. He is a middle aged man now. At present is in American and his songs are published in book form. Some years ago a boat load of persons were drowned while crossing Lough Allen. There is a song composed locally
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Leo Layden
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrinisky, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Christie
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Arigna, Co. Roscommon