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Sprees |
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And then we used to have the ould sprees long ago you know. There would be a huntsman’s spree, and the harvest spree, and the bridesmaid’s spree and of
course, I used to play the fiddle with my father when I was young and I got away with murder a kind of - that went on till four or five in the morning and you would get up and go to your work the same as if you were in bed. And the priest got on to it and began to dictate. Says me father ‘we’ll soon not get turning in the bed’. [Laughter]
Whatever house that would be in, all the mothers was there and the one would be dancing and there would be a quarter barrel and fifteen men would drink that, it wouldn’t last that long and the women got tea and it used to be great craic, great competition with singing and that’s where I got a lot of my old songs, listening to the older fellahs singing and anyone couldn’t sing they had to get up and recite and they were ordered up. We used to have great craic.
Ref: CPPH 136 Gretta Tighe sprees
Interviewer: Michael Finnegan, Connecting Peoples, Places & Heritage Project, 2007 - 2008
©Cavan & Fermanagh County Museums |
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Gretta Tighe - Cavan Positive Age |
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CPPH 136 Gretta Tighe sprees.mp3
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