School: Darver (C.), Dundalk (roll number 10547)
- Location:
- Darver, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Mhuireagain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 023
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- Every nation as we know have their own customs, and these are the ones that we have at home at Christmas.
Every body has a plum pudding, and some people think they would not have a good Christmas without one.
As Christmas is a time for feasting we have the newest of all foods, and the oldest of all drinks. We put a log on the back of the fire on Christmas day.
At this time also people go around all dressed up, and false faces on them called Mummers. They go in to nearly every house, and if they do not get money, they sometimes take a cake of bread if they get a chance.
After Christmas they have a big dance with the money they collect.
This is their rhyme:-
Room, room gallant boys,
Give us room to rhyme,
It's coming on to Christmas time,
In act of an nute, and an act of an age,
And such performance was never acted on a stage,
If you don't believe, and give in to what(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Bhearáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cuillenstown, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Lear
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cuillenstown, Co. Louth
