School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

Location:
Thomastown Demesne, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Dubhláine

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Christmas

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0577, Page 018

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There is always great joy at Christmas. Every woman is busy. My mother is very busy at Christmas always, cleaning and dusting. She has to white-wash and then everything is tossed about, dressers tables and pictures. Then all these things have to be washed and painted. I go for the holly red berry is the nicest. Strings are made out of it and they are put hanging out of the ceiling.
The Christmas dinner consists of roast goose and potatoes. The stuffing is always grand. Potatoes onions spices salt pepper. The tea on Christmas day. Tea sweet-cake and plum pudding. The plum

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Collector
Thomas Nagle
Gender
male
Address
Ballinaclogh, Co. Tipperary
Informant
Mrs Nagle
Relation
parent
Gender
female
Address
Ballinaclogh, Co. Tipperary
Language
English