School: Drakestown, Ardee (roll number 1554)

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1. Easter

   

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   Easter Easter Sunday means as we know it now that the end of Lent is at hand. Before the year 1828 or so there was no leave for meat during Lent either on Sunday or any other day. Easter is always associated with eggs around here. Some years ago it was the custom here for people, especially youngsters to go round collecting eggs (free of course) with the cry - Gimmie my Easter Cludhogues or it might have been cluide or from the Latin Ovum.

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2. New Time

   

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   New Time
   We also have new time this week and a fellow
   has to get up earlier to go to school, etc. I don't know what benefit it is to any one. I think
   the only solution is the extraordinary number
   of mental homes in this country. Wonder what our forefathers would say with their sundials etc. to see the sun at ten o'clock at night. Even in the church some have it and others don't. In our church when we had no bell (only 70 years ago) mass commenced with the arrival of the carriage containing the Oxford accent. We must always ape somebody, are we any better to-day'
   By Mr Tom Boylan
   Kilpatrick House
   Ardee

   

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