School: Belvoir, Kilkishen
- Location:
- Belvoir, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0586, Page 104
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- (continued from previous page)The pan give us our answer and let us be gone.
The faces of the collectors are disguised. People do not mind young school boys going out, but they do not care to see fairly well off farmers sond going out with the wren
The proceeds of such are spend in the local public houses.
Some come a distance in a lorry and have fiddler and melodic s with them. They play and dance fedora each house.
St Stephens day is always a holiday here. No work is done and it is aa great day for parties and dances there is no thought of about the great saint whose feast day it is it is often called wren day
The wren boys discuss in the local public houses who were(continues on next page)
