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   “The games I play are Football, Hurling, Hide and Seek, Skittles, Cat, Marbles, and others...”

   

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   game. A piece of ground is marked out and sticks are placed in the middle of it. Some person throws another stick at them and try to knock them. Cat is a game like skittles. People should get a small stick and put a point on each end of it. A person can get a number of chances to hit the stick a certain distance and if he does not he is out.

   

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   “These are games mu Grandfather used to play long ago...”

   

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   These are games my grandfather used to play long ago. One is pegging tops. It would be put into a ring and peggy out of the ring to so many yards of the road and it would be put down in a hole and everyone that would be pegging would get so many strokes at it to split it. There is another game called playing marbles and button. A ring would be made and each one would put down a marble or a button in it and then a line would be drawn a yard back from the ring. They had glass taws and stone taws and they would fire off the thumb and

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Fitzgerald

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Priorstown, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Patrick O' Gorman

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Priorstown, Co. Tipperary