School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 152
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- (continued from previous page)If a generous person were being compared with a person who was not generous it is said that the generous person would be better on a Good Friday than the other on a Christmas Day.
- On St. Stephen's day all the boys gather together and go in a procession from house to house. Some boys wear ragged clothes and "face-and-eyes." Others only blacken their faces and decorate themselves with papers. The tallest one of the boys leads the procession with a decorated holly bush and a dead wren hanging to it. They go around from house to house then, singing the song about the wren. Some people give them a sixpence and others a few pence. They all gather together that night and divide the money. They usually have a ball that night in some one of the boy's houses.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Frances Roycroft
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs J. Roycroft
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork
