School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 133
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- (continued from previous page)old delighted in singing "Patrick Day in the morning and "God save Ireland" and there was a spirit of patriotism in the air.
- Easter Saturday was always a day of fasting and hard work. All work in hand was finished and no new undertaking was began on that day. On Easter Sunday all young people rose early to see the sun rise as it is supposed to dance for joy so it is a day to be joyful and glad.Eggs for breakfast ( Emblem of new life ) new frocks and new suits were worn to Church and farmyard invariably supplied the dinner table. Friends from far and near visited each other and talked about the crops and stocks and the prospects generally. In the evening the usual devotions were well attended. Now-a-days the evenings are spent by the young people in preparations for the night at the dance-halls. Holy Ireland is different from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Lenihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Polke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Ballinglen, Co. Mayo
