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School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)

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Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Áine Bean Uí Chuillin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 11_050

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    goods. All their friends and cousins come home for Christmas to see their people. On Christmas Eve night Santa Claus comes to all good children and they get presents and toys from him. Out in the far off countries such as Alaska the game which the children play at Christmas is a star shaped wooden frame covered with tissue paper, and it is carried from house to house by boys and girls. When they stop to sing (the are) invited in and given something. In Denmark they have no Santa Clause only an old man with a long grey beard and it is said that he lives under the ground. The Danish dinner is roast goose and
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Gacquin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Muckloon, Co. Galway