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1. Wake Games

   

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   Another game played at wakes long ago was putting out the coincall candle, but they use the Irish word when referring to the game.

   A bit of a candle would be put on the floor, a candle about three inches in length and it lighting. Then a person would stand with his back to it and get a broom and shove it in between his legs and try and put out the candle with the end of it of course his back is turned and he can't see what he is doing. The fun goes on with the onlookers when he is trying to put it out for some times he would be prodding away with the broom end and he not within a foot of the candle.

   

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   History Edit

   Date

   19 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Eamonn Ó Mirneagh