Scoil: Ballyhahill (C.) (uimhir rolla 10686)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Marriage Customs (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   last of all came the bride herself and her family. The wedding ceremony, in those days was not always accompanied with Mass, and so it took only ten or fifteen minutes to get through. When all was over the newly married couple with their guests, went for a long drive all over the country, stopping to refresh themselves at various points. In the evening they directed themselves towards the bride's new home, where they danced, and sang, and regaled themselves until morning.

   During the feasting, many young men dressed up like wren-boys at Christmas, arrived and expected to get a good show of money. As a rule people, are generous at weddings, and so these Sappers as the young men were called, always did well. They got big sums of money, and free refreshments as well as being allowed join in the dancing sometimes. About sixty years ago wives used sit up on the horses' backs behind their husbands.

   This rhyme speaks for itself and shows what the bride wsa supposed to wear on her wedding morning:-

   "Something old, something new,
   Something borrowed, something blue"

   Another rhyme tells of the days, on whih children were born. Here it is:

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. marriage (~4,283)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Teresa Danaher

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Knocknabooly West, Co. Limerick

   Faisnéiseoir

   John O' Callaghan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   67

   Seoladh

   Tinnakilla, Co. Limerick