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School: Béal Átha Conaill (C.)

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Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Mary Mulligan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0968, Page 120

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    In olden days, games were much different to those played nowadays. Here is a game that boys, in Ireland, long ago, used to play. They used to get clay pipes and soap suds and make bubbles. This is how they made them.
    They dipped the bowl of the clay pipes into the soap suds. Across the mouth of each bowl a thin film of water was left. Then they blew into the stems of the pipes, the film of water swelled out into a lovely round bubble. As the bubbles floated in the sunshine, beautiful colours were seen but they did not last long.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    2. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr P. Carberry
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Snugborough, Co. Cavan