School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)

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   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.

   

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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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   Topics

   1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)

   Language

   English

   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