May Day

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Seanchas

Áine Ní Laoghaire

May Day Morning Superstitions

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Seanchas

20 October 1936

Áine Bean Uí Shúileabháin

Piseoga

“There are many superstitions about May Day.”

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Seanchas

Tras-scríbhinn

Amhrán

“One day as I chanced to go roaming it being in the month of May...”

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Seanchas

February 1937

Maighréad Bean Sheáin Uí Shéaghdha

(gan teideal)

“May day games were held in the green in Hospital Co. Limerick.”

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Seanchas

Hospital, Co. Limerick

(gan teideal)

“The people in "Killawrenee" parish wouldn't do any reddening on Easter Monday or May Day.”

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Seanchas

March 1937

Mícheál Ó Séaghdha

May Day

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Seanchas

23 May 1937

Margaret Maloney

(gan teideal)

“Cowslips when rubbed on the cow's udder on May day...”

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Seanchas

25 January 1938

Seamus Ó Gamhnáin

Tras-scríbhinn

May Day

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Seanchas

30 January 1938

Pádraig de Búrca

May Day

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Seanchas

1935

May Day

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Seanchas

10 April 1929

Mrs. Kelly

May Day Superstitions

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Seanchas

1931

Churning of Butter on May Day

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Seanchas

1936

May Day

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Seanchas

June 1938

Bean Mhic Raghnaill

May Day - Old Custom

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Seanchas

1939

Not Right to Work on May Day

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Seanchas

30 August 1939

Mr. James Moloney

May Day

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Seanchas

26 October 1939

Seán Ó Cearmuda

Piseoga: May Day

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Seanchas

4 April 1940

Diarmuid Ó Mathghamhna

Superstitions (New Years Day, Little Christmas, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, St Patrick's Day, May Day, Hallow Eve Night, Christmas Day)

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Seanchas

11 February 1938

John Reynolds

(gan teideal)

“A woman was standing beside a stream near a little bridge during 'May Day', and she was saying to herself...”

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Seanchas

November 1937

Liam de Búrca