School: Iascach (roll number 13967)
- Location:
- Easky, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Tioralla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0165, Page 032
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- Long ago German bands were very frequently in this district, but there are none now. It was said the reason why they used to come around was because the Great War was approaching and they were taking maps of this country. They were called "travelling people". There are travelling people now and they are called "Gipsies". The gipsies are a wandering race all over the world. They have no country of their own, and they are of a yellow race, and they are very fond of jewellery. They make their living by selling lace, carpets, tables, chairs, etc, and some of the women gipsies tell peoples fortunes. Crowds of them travel together known in the desert as caravans. Sometimes they ask potatoes and milk and turnips and other eatables, and sometimes they steal them. They live in a house drawn by two horses. There are other travelling people called tinkers. They have this place anoyed. Five or six women come around begging every day and sometimes they steal things too. The men tinkers make cans and other tin(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Geraldine Gibson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Easky, Co. Sligo
