Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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1. Wakes in the Olden Times (continued)

   

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   men sitting in the wake room, as it is always the custom in this county never to leave the room where the corpse is empty. These two old men were listening to the term going on in the kitchen with the crowd of lads, and they said to themselves that it would be a right job to play a trick on 'em. The then thought of a plan and when they listened to the lads in the kitchen for some time and found out by their talk that the mushrooms were nearly cooked they came back into the kitchen and appeared to be terribly frightened and excited. Do yes know what" says they and they terribly excited "Ould Jim is after chargin the strangest we ever seen. He has a face on him now the very same as if he was breaking his heart laughing. All the boys rushed up into the room thinking of course by the way that the two ould men said it that it was

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   History Edit

   Date

   14 Nollaig 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • Tadhg Deveraux