School: Turin (roll number 7827)
- Location:
- Teamhairín, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: Bríd Mhistéal
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 011
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- (continued from previous page)egg, that is all eggs laid on Good Friday and marked, by each person with black cross-(+) usually made from soot mark and eaten first on Easter Sunday mrg.Xmas Eve: called big supper night owing to fact that each family - on act of going to Holy Com. on Xmas Mrg and having a fairly late breakfast - had a great meal of home made currant cake and tea - during which the Xmas Candle was lighted.
This cake did not belong to the Xmas cakes - it was made specially for Xmas eve by the mother of the house.
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Night = supper on this night - night previous to Ash Wed. - composed of pancakes & tea - our pancake had ring in it.
Good Friday: Most old Irish families took only one meal on Good Friday - meal composed of black tea & dry oaten bread.
Even the hard working men in the fields could not break their fast until the sound of the Angelus Bell
