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Wran/wren boys

  • 29-03-2007 9:01pm
    #1
    brianthebard
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    Anyone take part in this tradition as a child? What are your memories of it?


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  • #2
    Mrs. MacGyver
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    I did going around the gaeltacht with my first cousins in Ballingeary with an accordian and clothes turned in side out to look like tramps singing..

    'The wren the wran the king of all bitds, on St stephen's day he got caugh in the furze, from bush to bush, from tree to tree, up in the castle he broke his knee, up with the kettle down with the pot, give me my ransome and let me be off'. Remeber making loads of money and eating loads of crimbo cake in Brownes in Kilnamatyra. Seems such a long time ago. Hardly none of the gaeltacht kids do it now, mostly adults like my two 60 ish yr old aunts ...


  • #3
    brianthebard
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    We didn't have a song:o We played trad (me and two sisters-fiddle, flute and whistle), went to practically all the housing estates and pubs in the county (back when there wasn't as many housing estates) the cash we got used to keep us each for a few months...


  • #4
    TheDriver
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    Sweet Lord being woken up early on Stephens Morning by my Mum and made open the door to listen to embarrising song and not knowing where to look!


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