Eighty years ago, people used to put eight rushes together and steep them in grease which they got out of fried beef fat
INFORMANT Patrick Reilly; male, Age; 87, Prison North, Co. Mayo
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In my grand-father's time they used to make wooden spoons for Easter Sunday out of wood
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Hedge schools once exist in Ireland up to the 1850's. They shorthly closed after a national education system came into existence. Here are a few stories from locals from back in 1938 given their accounts of Hedge Schools.
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