Scoil: Drumdigus (C.), Kilmurry McMahon (uimhir rolla 13479)

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1. Marriages (ar lean)

   

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   glasses used in our days.
   Dancing, principally jigs and reels and hornpipes, to the music of a piper or fiddler was freely indulged in no other musical instrument was in used in the country places. Drink ran so freely that all used to get drunk and very often a fight was the climax.
   The "Straw Boys" seem to be a later innovation at weddings principally in recent times and latterly there is a tendency to resent their intrusion into wedding festivities and all decent people will agree with this view, for fashionably dressed ladies do not like to be handled for "a set" by one of these fellows plastered up with soot or paint and dressed in rags only fit for a scare crow.
   Large fortunes have been paid to young girls getting married in recent times, all owing to parental control; for parents are always solicitous for the welfare of their children; but many of the young people nowadays rebel against such control and indulge in what they are pleased to call "love matches". Many people are inclined to view their action with favour advocating that it is more natural for young people to marry who are intimately acquainted, than for people who have never spoken two words to one another. Trial is the surest test of merit and time will tell whether these marriages are as successful and happy as their predecessors.
   The custom now prevails of throwing rice or confetti on the pair after the marriage ceremony. In olden times an old slipper or shoe was thrown after their car or carriage; and a propos of this - A marriage took place in the Parish of Kilmurry McMahon and

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            1. marriage (~4,283)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Anna Namara

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Derrynalecka, Co. Clare

   Faisnéiseoir

   Michael Mc Namara

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

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   Seoladh

   Derrynalecka, Co. Clare