School: An Scairbh (C.)
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Mhic Eoin
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- About 50 years after Mág Hackett's time in or about the year 1890, there came a dance teacher named Dorman. He never came to this locality but once a year and he was always very hard up then. The people of Scariff were very good to him. Every house in the town used to give a dance and everybody who attended it subscribed some little for Dorman and some little for a new concertina for him. He used to give dancing lessons and when the lesson was over he used to make all his pupils sing a song named "Nell Brandon the pride of the Prairie". He was teaching a pupil to do the rising step once and he could not get him to rise the right foot, so he tied a sugan on to one foot and a gad on the other, and this is the way he taught the pupil "Rise upon sugan and sink upon gad". Whenever he [saw] anybody dancing anything but step dance he used to leave the locality and not return for twelve months.
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- Eileen Guilfoyle
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