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School: Lucan (B.)

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Lucan, Co. Dublin
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M. Mac Rois
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 225

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    Every year about a week before christmas the nuns build a crib. First of all they put up the boards for a frame, then they put the 'stone paper' over the boards to make it look like a rock cave. Then they put varigated holly all around it. They get straw then and put the child Jesus in it. Then they put up statues of the Blessed Virgin and Saint Joseph, and the three wise
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Christmas (~455)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brendan Nolan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Balgaddy, Co. Dublin