School: Druim na dTréad
- Location:
- Drumnatread, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Stondúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1019, Page 187
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- (continued from previous page)early in the morning there is a certain amount of feasting in the bride's house before the party leave for the church for the marriage and then after the marriage the party go directly to the groom's house. Of course it is more general nowadays in this as in other districts with the younger marriage-couples especially to have no wedding feast at all but to have breakfast in the neighbouring town, after which they leave on the honeymoon.
In olden days at any rate according to local tradition the bride's first act on entering her new home was to lift the tongs and turn out the bright side of the coals on the fire for good luck. Then the wedding feast began and continued to the early hours of the following morning. Here were gathered the friends and relations of both bride and groom and all drank the several healths of both and wished them long-lives joy and happiness; here they danced and sang and made merry.
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