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School: Sruthán an Aifrinn (roll number 13982)

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Massbrook Lower, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Mhóráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0149, Page 337

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    Straw-boys are a company of young men who join together and go to a house in which there is a newly wed couple. Sometimes girls act as straw-boys.
    They dress up in ragged clothes and they wear big tall hats made of straw. That is why they are called straw-boys. When they go to a house they generally do not want to be known especially if they are not let in to the house they go to.
    Straw-boys are always led by a captain, and they have to do everything he tells them. If he orders them to dance with the
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
          1. marriage (~4,283)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lily Mulhern
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bofeenaun, Co. Mayo