School: Drom an Mhadaidh
- Location:
- Drumavaddy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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- Games I playThere are many games played in our house. One of them is "Fool in the middle" in which five people take part. "One" "two" "three" is counted and all the players rush for a corner. The one who is left without a corner is called the "fool".Another game is "Devil and Angel" to perform this game the children are arranged in a row. Each child is given a colour and two stand out one as a "Devil" and the other as an "Angel." When the colours are given the child that have them says "Devil devil come" The "devil" as he is called will then be asked what he wants, he will reply as a colour. He will then be asked what colour and whatever colour is named the child to whom it was given will go over on the "Devils" side, and so the game continues until all the colours are called. The the Devil and his crowd pull again and the "Angel" to see which of them would win the victory.
Another game is "Dummy Band." A few children are left standing in a row. Each child is told to imitate the playing of some instrument with his or her hands. Then one of the children stands in front and starts to play one of the instruments which one of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardkill Beg, Co. Cavan
