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1. Old Festive Customs - St John's Eve

   

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   St John's Eve is usually called Bonfire Night. Youngsters light bonfires still but the good old custom is slowly dying out. Here is a description of it fifty years ago by old Matt Farrelly.
   The bonfire night you'd see the boys gathering from glen and dale and heading off to Legga Hill. Everyone would bring a glach of brosna and whins with him. Then came bands of girls wearing their white blouses and Sunday best to join in the dance which was soon to follow the bonfire. Last came the ould men and women chatting up the hill. As night fell we lit ours and you'd think the sky was in a blaze with all the bonfires lit in Leitrim and Longford. Then we started to cheer and were answered

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Francis Doyle

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   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Moyne, Co. Longford

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   Matt Farrelly

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   Fireann

   Aois

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   Cloonelly, Co. Longford