School: Foxrock (St Brigid's)
- Location:
- Foxrock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: S. Ní Mhaolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0799, Page 90
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- (continued from previous page)farthest in the air would be king of all the birds. So all the birds did not like it because the eagle won the race. But the little wren had got up on the eagle's back unseen, and so went up the farthest, and had won.When the eagle saw this he started to fight, and put the little wren into the furze.
- On St. Stephen's Day the wren boys come looking for money and one of their rhymes is:-
Here comes Jack Straw, the finest man you ever saw,
Its money I want, and money I crave,
If you don't give me money, I'll sweep you all to your grave.Hallow Eve is another great, festival, and there are many customs held on it. The letting off the fireworks, and going round from house to house dressed-up, and singing, and receiving apples, and nuts etc. The children play snap apple, and ducking for apples in a basin of water, and many other things.On the Eve of the first of May the children get a branch of May which is the white thorn, and plant it, and dance, and sing the following rhyme:-
You must wake, and call me early,
Call me early mother dear,(continues on next page) - Collector
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