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School: Liathdruim (roll number 1125)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 498

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    Name of Pupil:- Muriel Benison,
    Address:- Derreen, Co. Roscommon.
    Festival Customs.
    Most of the special feasts of the year are observed in a special manner, and some of them have many old customs which have come down to us from long ago.
    The chief of these feasts are New Year's Day, Twelfth Night or Old Christmas, Shrove Tuesday, Patrick's Day, Saint Brigid's Day, Hallow-Eve, Christmas Day, and Saint Stephen's Day.
    For instance on Saint Stephen's Day, groups of young men calling themselves Mummers or Wren-boys, disguise themselves and go from village to village and house to house, singing, dancing and playing
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    Topics
    1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Muriel Benison
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derreen, Co. Ros Comáin