School: Faythe (roll number 11361)
- Teacher: An tSr. Columcille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 126
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- It is a custom which is rarely omitted to eat new potatoes on the twenty ninth of June. They are eaten with butter and are not peeled. The people wish for some thing and say "God grant that we may be alive this time nest year". "God's grace come to us" is also said.
- Long ago, besides using butter on bread they used it with potatoes and in colcannon. They made a kind of sauce with butter and milk.They used to stick a pin in the eggs and suck the insides out of them. They also drank them out of the shells.
