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Seán Ó Móráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0805, Page 353

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    Well! it is the custom for the little children to gather all the eggs in order to have them for Easter Sunday. It is also the custom for the people not to sell Good Friday eggs, because they say that if you sell the eggs you get on Good Friday you give away the luck of your eggs for the rest of the year.
    The young people visit the Blessed Sacrament on that morning.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)
        1. Cáisc (~163)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Boland
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Trodóg, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
    Informant
    Mr Thomas Boland
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Trodóg, Co. Uíbh Fhailí