School: Drom na Gráinsighe (roll number 13280)

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   these month we can have plenty of enjoyment in the house. When the ramblers gather in at night they sit around a cosy bright warm fire, of Irish peat with a nice clean hearth. There is an old proverb:- "A clean hearth a bright fire and an old tale"
   They tell stories of olden times and they also tell ghost stories. I like stories very much especially those told about ghost and abut the bitter hard times that the long-suffering Gael had during the cruel harsh, Penal-Laws and about the famine and plague that followed.
   If there is ice on a pond we amuse ourselves in sliding and skating thereon. If there is snow we fling snow-balls at each other and make snow men. I would love to watch the gradual beginning of the storm. A few feathery flakes sail

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Lavin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumnagranshy, Co. Sligo