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School: Shanakill, Roscrea

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Shanakill, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Seán Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 156

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  1. Homemade Toys (continued)

    “My mother used to make necklaces out of dog-briar bushes...”

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    Boys often made a ball out of the bladder of a pig. They fill it up with hay and rags. They fill it with wind.
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  2. Homemade Toys

    “To gather rushes and cut them all the same length and get four of them and twist them in and out and it would make a lovely rod...”

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Maher
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Skehanagh, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Dan Treacy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Skehanagh, Co. Tipperary

  3. Homemade Toys

    “In olden times the boys used to make bugles out of straws...”

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    Bugles
    In olden times the boys used to make bugles out of straws. Where the knot would be on the straw, they split the straw and blow into it.
    Rattles
    The boys and girls used to get tin boxes and put little stones into them. Then they put the lids on them and shook the boxes and they had rattles.
    Crosses
    The boys got long "traneens" of hay and put the ends all together and twisted them. They made a little cross out of them then.
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