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1. Composition - Games I Play

   

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   "Paddy from Cork" is played by a large number of children, who sit in a ring and get a large cord with a ring on it, they pass this ring on the cord through their hands from one to another, then one person stays out on the floor, they call him "Paddy from Cork" he must find the ring with some person before he gets off the floor, the ones holding the cord with the ring on, sing this rhyme, "Paddy from Cork who never been, never a railway train has seen, never has seen the great machine that travels along the railway."

   The "Duke of York", this game is played by a large number of children in two rows, the two at the end of the row take each other by the hand and go up the centre and down again, and come behind the rows and make an arch of their hands, they all come in pairs and go under the arch singing this rhyme "The Grand old Duke of York he had so many men, he marched them up to the top of the hill, he marched them down again, and when they were up they are up, and when

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   Topaicí

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Vincent Mc Cabe

   Inscne

   Fireann

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