School: Baile Mac Rabhartaigh (roll number 3978)
- Location:
- Ballymagrorty, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Fiannaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 185
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- I play many games namely:Tig.Marbles.Blinds [Blind?] Mans [Man’s?] Buff.Hide and go seek.Nut bracking [breaking?].Top Spinning.It requires five or six to play tig. The leader of the game says a rhyme “P-i-g you have the tig open your golden gates and walk straight out” until the tig falls on some one [someone?] and they run about playing it. A ring is made on the ground and two or three marbles are put in it and taws [?] big marbles are thrown at them trying to knock one out. (I) [sic] If one knocks out a marble he gets it to keep. To play “Blind Man’s Buff” one puts a cloth over his eyes and runs after the others. When he catches one that one has to put on the blind then.To play “Hide and go Seek” a couple of persons go out to hide and the same number stay in den. Then the boys in den go out in search of the others. Some boys make there [their?] own tops out of a spool and others get tops in the shops.A trick played on a winter’s night is: People put a pair of tongs standing up and tell somebody to stand up to see the tongs falling. When he stands up they say then they are two fools standing now.
- Informant
- John Mc Grane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
