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School: Tullow (Monastery)

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Tullow, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Br. Míchéal Ó Maoileoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0908, Page 129

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  1. Festival Customs

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    One of the best Festival Customs which is carried on in this district is on the Festival of St Stephens day. On St Stephens morning a number of boys gather together, some with sticks some with slug guns & other with catterpults. They then set of through the fields searching for that small little bird called the wren.
    When they have caught the wren, they tie her to a holly branch. Then they put on old clothes & paint each others faces.
    They they get mouth-organs, tin-whistles & any class of musical instrements & go around to all the houses singing & dancing & in nearly every house they get money when they are leaving.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Walker
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tullow, Co. Carlow