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School: Druimín (roll number 9438)

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Drummeen, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 203

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    Other notes taken from other compositions on the same subject. I am not repeating the same stuff.
    The Grooms Man is generally a brother to the Groom and the brides maid a sister to the bride. After the breakfast they go to the nearest big town for a drive and when they come back the bride and groom go to the grooms house and they ask all the neighbours and friends to the house & they dance and sing until the morning. She calls the callers or unknown visitors band beggars and suggests that they are dressed in rags & straw. The bride does not go home until she
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