School: Grian Airbh (Graine), Urlingford (roll number 6017)
- Location:
- Graine, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhshláine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0867, Page 218
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- On Stephen's Day the boys and grown up men dress up in all sorts of disguises and go around from house to house singing, playing music and dancing.
Some of them wear masks some blacken their faces and they wear the queerest clothes. They put on girls blouses and skirts bits of lace curtains hats wrong side out and up side down and old skirts out side their coats.
They play all sorts of musical instruments mouth-organs tin whistles flutes melodions and fiddles. They are often recognised by the instruments they play, as some of the boys in the district are very good musicians.
This is the song they sindThe wren the wren.
The king of all birds.
St Stephen's Day was caught(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs M. Delany
- Gender
- Female
