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School: Tuairín Chathail (B.) (roll number 10392)

Location:
Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ó Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0452, Page 284

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    The games I play in the summer are football, and swimming and picking blackberries. In winter we play cards, and blind man's buff, hide-and-go-seek, and making blirdtraps.
    The games we play are thirty-one, old maid and peg.
    To play blind-mans buff one boy is blind-folded, and he chases all the others around the room until he has a boy caught. Then the boy that he catches will put on the pookeen, and start again and so on for an hour or more. For hide-and-go-seek one boy closes his eyes, and counts to ten, and the first one he finds after opening his eyes will have to close his eyes till the others go in hide again.
    We make bird-traps with rods and wire. When snow is on the ground we put crumbs under. This cage is held up with a little rod, and when
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Con Fleming
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Michael Fleming
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    62
    Address
    Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry