School: Faythe (roll number 11361)

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An tSr. Columcille
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  1. The customs in our house at Christmas is to light a Christmas candle on the table in the bedroom. My mother buy's holly and decorates the pictures of every room in the house. We make a little crib in the bedroom and light little lamps around it.
    The people in the street visit our house on Christmas Eve and my mother give's them wine and sweet cake and give's them a present. My mother give's money to the breadman the milkman the paperboy and the coalman for a Christmas box. A custom in the town is that all the grocers should give their customers a sweet-cake and a bottle of wine for a Christmas box.
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Christmas (~455)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Lawlor
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Wexford, Co. Wexford