School: Kilteevan (roll number 14966)

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1. The Games We Play (continued)

   

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   During the winter nights many games are played as passing the button, donkey, old maid; and card playing is becoming a favourite game
   Many of the grown ups devote their spare time to reading story books which they procure from the Library in Roscommon.
   Girls devote a great part of their time to skipping
   About 50 or 60 years ago the games played were flogging and spinning tops, playing marbles, pins, rounders, four corners and tig also Blindmans buff, hide and seek, and a game with a teetum totum. Playing marbles and pins was the great pastime in those days and was indulged in by persons up to 30 years of age. Girls as well as boys took part in playing pins An ordinary pin was placed in the hand and then the fist closed; the second player placed a pin in the others hand and called 'heads' If the heads of the two pins were together when the first player opened his hand then the second person won and took the two pins or he could have called out 'heads and points' and if the pins were in the position indicated he won. If the pins were not in the position called out he lost and forfeited his pin thus alternately the game proceeded. Persons used to take great delight in exhibiting the stakes (pins) they had won. They often had as many as a

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Dolan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cloonmurly, Co. Roscommon