School: Glynn (C.) (roll number 4602)
- Location:
- Glynn, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 382
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- (continued from previous page)the men can make cans from tin.
They make big ones and small ones, called tommy-cans, teadrawers and others.They generally buy their foodstuffs in the towns or cities through which they pass. Some of them are welcome but others are not as very often some of them are impudent and cheeky.These "travelling people" never remain longer than a night in any one place. When entering the houses they say the old Irish salutation, "God save all here", then they unpack their baskets and ask's the "women of the house" to buy something, but ask for alms, but it is not everything they except.These folk generally travel in families.
Here I shall give the names of the best known of them May Good, Mrs. Hughes Jim Delaney Jerry Connors and his family and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Sexton
- Gender
- Female
