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1. The Fighting Hill (continued)

   

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   whole day and there they were at it “hammer and tongs”. At last coming on evening the Deverys began to give in, and the Egans seeing that got new strength and so won the battle.

   

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2. Wakes and Funerals

   

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   At the wakes about forty years ago they used to have keeners and Purgatorians. The keeners were women employed to cry out loud over the corpse during the wake which at that time lasted two nights. As each friend or sympathiser came in the keeners set up their keen or cry over the

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