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School: Drumnahoul

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Drumnahoul, Co. Donegal
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Sorcha Ní Choltair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1035, Page 428

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  1. Festival Customs

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    There are three great festivals in the year Easter, Christmas and Halloween. The greatest. The greatest of the festivals is Christmas. A week before Christmas the boys dress and go from house to house mummering. Every boy has his own rhyme the rhymes that there are.
    “Room, room my gallant boy give me room to rhyme.
    Its all upon the Christmas time that the geese are getting fat.
    Would you please put a penny in the old man’s hat”
    “Jack Straw”.
    “Here comes I Jack Straw such a man you never saw.
    Through a rock through a reel through an old spinning wheel
    Through a bag of paper through a millers hopper.
    Through an old sheep shank bone”
    “Oliver Cromwell.”
    “Here comes I wee Oliver Cromwell with a long cocker nose.
    I conquered Ireland and I conquered Spain,
    And I come back to Ireland to conquer it again
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Willie Wray
    Gender
    Male