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School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)

Location:
Timoleague, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Shithigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 087

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 087

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    drinking and great 'ceol'."
    Sometimes they go for a "drive" during the day.
    When a wedding is on Shrove Tuesday, the bride arrives at her new home before 12 o'clock that night. She wouldn't go to her new home in Lent.
    Some glass ware usually gets broken at a wedding. People say, "what harm, 'tis lucky to break something.
    When Ned Driscoll's father got married Nell Thaidhgh Sheáin went to the wedding to Graníseal on horseback, behind her father.
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    “When Richie Drake's father got married, his brother, Ned Drake was at the wedding and he had a woman behind him.”

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    When Richie Drake's father got married, his brother, Ned Drake, wat at the wedding, and he had a woman behind him. It was usual for horsemen to race home, each trying to be
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