School: Lanesboro (roll number 13320)
- Location:
- Lanesborough, Co. Longford
- Teacher: E. Ó Reachtagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0753, Page 052
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- The travelling class of people are the happiest in the world. They come in big caravans and see all that is together. I think it is a grand life. They have big fires on the road and they all sit around the fire. Some of them are very nice and quiet and more of them are very wicked. When they come begging if you don't give them something they are grumbling. There is another class of travellers, Gipseys, they are different from the tinkers, they are nice and not so rough as the others. They have mats and buttons and a lot of little things to sell. They also tell your fortune and the people like to see them coming to get their fortune told, they have lovely talk and dressed very well. There are others who go around playing every sort of instruments. Some of them can play lovely and they get a lot of money in the houses. Around Christmas is a great time for all those people. Also at fairs they go around to everyone asking for pennies some of them get drunk and be fighting. The trick o the loops always come at sports.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanesborough, Co. Longford
