Scoil: Carrigaline (B.) (uimhir rolla 13512)

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1. St Stephen's Day

   

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   On Christmas Day night a crowd of boys go out the country to kill a wren. When the wren is killed it is tied to the highest branch of a holly-bush. The boys decorate the holly-bush with coloured papers.
   On St. Stephen's Day the boys disguise themselves. They dress themselves in torn clothes, and put masks on their faces. One boy carries a small box, and the others carry the "wren-bush" in their turns. They go from house to house singing a song about the wren. The boy with the box holds out the box, and the people of every house put a few pence in it. The song which the "wren-boys" sing is:
   The wren, the wren, the king of all birds,
   St. Stephen's Day he was caught in the furze,
   From bush to bush, from tree to tree,
   And up in Mount Rivers, he broke his knee.
   I have a little box under my arm,
   Two or three pence will do it no harm,
   Whoever fills the box the best
   Up in Heaven his soul will rest,

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Peter Collins

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Carrigaline, Co. Cork

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Mary Collins

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   60

   Seoladh

   Carrigaline, Co. Cork