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School: Páirc na Coille

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Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
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Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 169

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    around his knees to straighten him. During the night of the wake they were playing games and singing songs. The sport was just begining rightly when some of the boys cut the rope that tied the dead man to the table. At that moment he sat upwards. All the neighbours ran madly for their lives, thinking it was some sort of ghost was on the table. Some escaped safely, and other men were not got for some days after falling into drains and wells. The people that were at the wake that night did not go to the
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    2. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. death (~1,076)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tom Mc Manus
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrynadooey, Co. Roscommon