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School: Louth (B.) (roll number 1553)

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Louth, Co. Louth
Teacher:
P. Randles
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0665, Page 048

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  1. The Mummers

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    Mumming is a very old custom in this part of the country. In the month of November when all the work is done five or six boys get together they learn the mummers rhyme and they dress themselves up in old clothes and they paint their faces so that they would not be known.
    Then they go around from district to district on bicycles collecting money, when they have a lot of money collected they hold a mummers dance on St Stephens night they buy food for the dance and they dress themselves
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pádraig Ó Lionnáin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Corderry, Co. Louth