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School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)

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Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 152

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  2. Festival Customs

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    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.
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