Scoil: Banahoe

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1. Mummers (ar lean)

   

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   As a rule each boy in a party of mummers receives a penny in every house. They dont carry a box for a general collection as is done in Donegal. Various disguises are worn, including false faces, hats bedecked with ribbons, shirts worn over coats, and skirts. Sometimes no disguises are worn.

   The mummers that I have seen in this district did not dance, or play an instrument and sang the wren song only when requested to do so. They had no rhymes or anything else that would give pleasure or entertainment to onlookers.

   On rare occasions grownups with fiddle, accordeon or flute, good singing dancing and humorous rhymes go around as mummers on St. Stephen's day. They can give some entertainment and are usually given silver tokens in the houses they visit. Such a party did so well as to be able to employ a motor car to bring them about a few years ago.

   
   John Smith (Jnr) 31 yrs.
   Carrickotobair
   Crosskeys

   

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