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School: Poor Clares' Convent, Cavan

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Cavan, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Sr. Carmel
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0975, Page 042

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    Christmas.
    At home my mother decorates the house with coloured decorations and hooll holly.
    Most of the people buy a large blue or red candle and they leave it burning in the kitchen window during the whole of Christmas night. Christmas Eve the hearth gets a special sweeping. The children hang up their stockings at the foot of the bed so that Santa Claus may put their toys in them. In Cavan most of the people stay in their own homes on that day. Dinner is usually served earlier than any other day.
    St Stephen's Day.
    In Cavan on St Stephen's day the boys always dress up in old rags and they wear false faces also. The leader of the group carries a branch of holly with a dead wren lying on the leaves of holly. At each door they dance and play French-fiddles, and they beat on
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Mac Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Cavan, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs T. Mac Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    35
    Address
    Cavan, Co. Cavan