School: Clochar na Trócaire, Inis (roll number 7315)
- Location:
- Ennis, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhomhnalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 188
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- XML “Games I Play - I Wrote a Letter To My Love”
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - This game is played in the following manner. A group of girls form a ring and put up their hands; one girl gets a handkerchief and goes around tipping each girl on the shoulder with it saying
"I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I lost it; one of you have picked it up and put it in your pocket". Then she says "it is not you" "it is not you" "it is you" and she throws the handkerchief on the girls, and she runs and the other girl follows her in and out the ring, and if she catches her before the girls in the ring have counted twenty she goes round with the handkerchief.
