Scoil: St Mary's, Buncrana

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   “We often hear people say "Oh there is no fasting now" said an old lady and gave a description of her early time with regard to fast.”

   

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   milk in a tin pan, and this was passed from one to the other , after each had taken a piece of potato. At about eight o clock they got porridge and milk or porridge and sowers, if the day was a black fast - The potatoes were often boiled three times a day . If the potatoes were plentiful in a house , they were boiled the oftener , and porridge was make less often. No milk was taken on certain days: these were black fast days. "Now she said" people think they fast if they have to do with out bacon and beef"

   

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   Mrs Rose Mc Laughlin

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