School: St. Brigid's (B.) (roll number 12925)
- Location:
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: M. Gúld
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0880, Page 057
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- (1) Hoppy was the nickname put on a man because he was slightly lame and he had a slight hop when he was walking.
(2) Cheesers was the name put on a person because when he was small he could not say cheese and when he wanted a bit of cheese he used to say to give me a bit of cheesers.
(3) There was a man who used to call everyone scraball and the people then called him scraber.
(4). There was a man who lived in the country and during the time of the trouble in Wexford he set fire to his own house and blamed the republicans for it. For that he was called "Burn the Hut".
(5). There was a man who used to never take a drop of drink any day in the week only of a Sunday and then he used to get drunk and the people named him Drunken Sunday.
- Collector
- John J. Doyle
- Gender
- Male
