School: Clonlara
- Location:
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Heoghanáin
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- (continued from previous page)unlucky. Harvest was another unfavourable time.
"The sheaf that's bound in Harvest
Will be loosened in Spring."
Any day of the week for marriages except Sunday, Thursday and Friday and a bride wore any colour but Green, Red, or Black. Green is a very unlucky colour to wear at anytime.
They usually had very large weddings all the friends and neighbours of both parties were entertained all day.
The marriage took place in the evening and then the wedding continued all night. Great eats, roast geese, lamb, bacon etc. Lots of cakes and plenty liquor usually Potheen as private still flourished in the backward places. Dancing to the music of the tinwhistle, flute and fiddle there was lots of local talent that time and great stepancers. Those weddings often ended up in a fight if anything was broken such as a glass. If it was one of the brides party broke it is symbolized that the bride would die first and immediately her party would break what was in the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Malachy Dinneen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Clare
