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1. Wake Games

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   There was a certain game used be played at wakes long ago in this county called "Hurry the brogue". The men at the wake would all be sitting around the kitchen. An old brogue would be given to the man on the corner, and he would shove it on to the person sitting beside him, of course the boot would be shoved along under the stools and the men paying the fame would never see it.
   That was one of the tricks of the game, no one was allowed to see the boot.
   Other games played were "turning the bottle", and "guess"
   A bottle would be placed on the centre of the floor and it would be put spinning.
   Somebody would say "whoever this bottle will point at when

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   6 Aibreán 1936

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