School: Gleann Guail, Dúrlas Éile
- Location:
- New Birmingham, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhubhsháine
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- (continued from previous page)On Halloween night we have a barm brack for tea and after that playing games diving for apples and burning nuts and Blind Man's Bluff.
On Christmas Day we always have a special feast. The general feast is roast goose and plum-pudding and fruit.
On St Stephen's Day the boys go around following the wren. They have a holly bush decorated with ribbons and they go around from door to door singing."The wren the wren the king of all birds
St Stephen's Day she was caught in the furzes
Although she is little her honour is great
Get up Madam and give her a treat
Up with the kettle and down with the pan
A penny or two to follow the wren"They sometimes have musical instruments and they play and dance outside the door. The little lads divide the money that they get between them. The big lads drink the money.
- Collector
- Mary Graham
- Gender
- Female
