School: Clochar na Trócaire, Drangan (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drongán, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Gráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0556, Page 275
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- (continued from previous page)queen is forgotten, except in the retrospections of hoary-headed sire and dame, and in those alone she lives. And why? Echo answers why? When the green robes of summer has passed away, and the discarded foliage of the grove is whirling around on the blast, Irish mirth and music met again in honoured festival to celebrate the event.Allhallowe'en was a joyous gathering-time in the days of our fathers. "Dad and mam and lad and lass" used congregate around the hospitable hearths of the cosy farmsteads in their turn as the years went round. The storm may rave and howl outside but the harvest's produce was safely stocked and secure in the sheltered farmyard. The year's harvest toil ws o'er and its reward and result being gathered together and out(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Maigh Gabhra, Co. Thiobraid Árann
