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1. Festival Customs (continued)

   

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   Her body is small, her family is great.
   Get up big Missus and give us a trate

   And if the trate be of the small,
   It won't agree with the boys atall.
   And if the trate be of the best,
   I hope its in heaven her soul may rest.

   Some people in and around Tawnyaskin never eat meat on St. Stephen's Day in commemeration of St. Stephens death.

   

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2. The Wren Boys

   

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   It is a custom around this part of the country on St. Stephens Day for boys to go from house to house playing all sorts of musical instruments. Some of them have violins and others have tin whistles. They dress themselves with cloths upon their faces, and white coats. They go about in crowds of threes, and sixes, and tens. When they come to the doors they play one of the musical instrument and

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   Topics

   1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
         1. Feast of St Stephen (~402)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John B. Tivnan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Doon, Co. Roscommon