School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)
- Location:
- Drumakill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Florence Harrison
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 093
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- (continued from previous page)many as a dozen eggs each that day. It is very unlucky to be born on Whit Sunday or Whit Monday. There is a saying that the person or animal born on either of these days will either kill or be killed. At Halloween we all eat a feast of fruit and nuts. We have apple dumplings for supper that night. We play all sorts of tricks with apples and nuts. On Christms day, we eat plum pudding, roast turkey and goose. We get presents and send off presents, cards and greetings to our friends. Santa Claus comes to all the children with gifts too. The people decorate their houses with holly and mistletoe and burn coloured candles. On St. Stephen's Day men and boys go out to hunt the wren. They carr a dead wren at the head of a bush and they sing the wren song. They visit the houses collecting money which they use in having a party or feast. On Halloween night, the old people in the district make champ and put it on pieces of boards up the chimney and they call the crickets to them in the Irish language.
- Collector
- Jim Patterson
- Gender
- Male
