Scoil: Kilberry, Athy (uimhir rolla 13165)

Ar an leathanach seo

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   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   out in three weeks. She is a wonderful mother and rears this large family carefully and in a short time has them ready to leave the nest and to go fend for themselves. The young men and boys go around the hedges and fields hunting the wren on Christmas Day. When one is caught, she is carefully placed in a small wooden box or cage.
   This wooden box or cage is tastefully decorated with holly, ivy, coloured ribbons and paper and carried around by a group of boys and young men on St. Stephen's Day. These men or boys are called "the wren boys"; they array themselves in fantastic clothes and darken their faces with soot or bootpolish, or sometimes they wear vizards to disguise themselves. They travell around from door to door and at each door they recite a rhyme something like the following:
   The wren, the wren, the king

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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