School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Díarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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- (continued from previous page)bribe to poor grandmother, too. She will surely care and nurse the young chap all the better when ha has the old man's name. Now-a-days and for the past 30 years almost, since the Old Age Pension Act was passed the name - the old man's name has been the happy medium of extracting the extra pound (or two) from the old people. This old custom will never die I venture to say.
If a parent (the father) departs from the fixed code of rules cited above he is looked upon as being a queer man or a man who does not like his people-in-law.
Looking through Records of Baptisms for the past hundred years I was struck by the fact that only in a few isolated cases did the children get a second Christian name until about thirty years ago. Since then the fine custom has spread and today there is scarcely a child baptised who has not a second name.
Before departing from the question of names - I give a personal experience of the desire of a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Príomhoide