School: Grange View (roll number 15964)

Location:
Kilglass, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Mary J. Flanagan
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  2. When a girl is getting married she wears something old something new something borrowed and something blue. Some people do not go to Mass the first Sunday after they getting married. When the bride goes to her new home she does not go to her father's house for a month. Married in pink your spirits will sink. Married in blue you will always be true.
    Married in green not fit to be seen. Married in yellow ashamed of the fellow.
    It is happy for the bride that the shines on. It is said when people
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