School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 141
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- (continued from previous page)over the seas. There is a poem made up about St. Patrick's Day and it goes like this:-
Saint Patrick;s Day we'll be merry and gay,
And will kick the old Protestant out of our way,
If that doesn't do we'll cut them in two,
And put them in under the red, white and blue.
- On Easter Sunday the local people eat hard boiled eggs and everybody eats as many as they can. Some local people put buttercups (?) egg-shells and colour papers on the branches. These bushes are to greet the Summer.
- Collector
- Eddie O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
