School: Mín na Cille, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 16239)
- Location:
- Mín na Cille, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Aindrias Ó Dúnadhuighe
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“Two men had a bet which would the sister or the wife cry the most after a man.”
Two men had a bet which would the sister or the wife cry the most after a man. The man let on to be dead and a crowd came to the wake. The sister began to cry but the wife was going with another man the night of the wake. The sister got disgusted at it, so she then spoke in Irish and this is what she said:-
"An bóthar rómham atá sé fada
Agus mo phóca féin atá ró-dhealbh
Do chuir sí speic(?) leis an buachaill bhí taoibh léi
Agus ní driotháir Tomás a chaoin sí."
The wife went home between a half-laugh and a half cry and the sister was going home when her brother said:-"Raghadsa leat abhaile" a dubhairt sé.- Collector
- Máire Ní Fhloinn
- Gender
- Female