Scoil: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Old Customs (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   it was easy enough to re-open it. Turf, potatoes, and milk were to be given to the old people and a certain sum of money was to be paid to them each year. The most of the men and women kept their old people with them and left them the ‘run of the house’ as they felt it would be cheaper for them. Only when the parties disagreed did it become necessary to carry out the full marriage agreement. Indeed very few men were anxious to put their mother or father in the room because it would be ‘thrown at them’ by the neighbours. It was often said of a man”that he could’t be lucky” because “ it was the bad treatment he gave his father or mother”. Many families felt disgraced if the father or mother were treated like that and many a family disagreement was cloaked rather than ‘break out the door’. Very often too (Mrs Sheehan remarked) the young man had brothers and sisters in America and they would be sending something for the Christmas to the old people. When the old people had the freedom of the house they would’nt forget the struggling son or son-in-law and the children. The American check was common property too.
   Having settled the details the people returned to their

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teangacha

   Gaeilge

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Gairm bheatha

   Príomhoide (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)