Volume: CBÉ 0190

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1. Wake Games

   

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   There was a certain game used be played at wakes long ago in this county called "Hurry the brogue". The men at the wake would all be sitting around the kitchen. An old brogue would be given to the man on the corner, and he would shove it on to the person sitting beside him, of course the boot would be shoved along under the stools and the men paying the fame would never see it.
   That was one of the tricks of the game, no one was allowed to see the boot.
   Other games played were "turning the bottle", and "guess"
   A bottle would be placed on the centre of the floor and it would be put spinning.
   Somebody would say "whoever this bottle will point at when

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   History Edit

   Date

   6 Aibreán 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Tomás de Buitléir