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| Title |
Mummer's and dances at Christmas. |
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Then at Christmas they used to have country house dances again and they used to have what you call joins, where people would pay that would be takin' drink, they would pay, I think it was, ten shillin's and teetotalers would be payin' five shillings. They'd have a nights dancin' and plenty of drink for the ones that wanted it and there'd be plenty to eat and they could dance away to daylight in the morning. Then you used to have mummers' dances, where the mummers have went out and collected money, went from house to house and collected money. Well then they had what they called a mummers' dance in some one house and every house they went to, they went back again and they invited one or two people out of every house to this mummers' dance and it went on, it went on for about twelve hours. You ended up well filled up with wine and food. They used to, mummers used to go out, in some areas they go out before Christmas and in other areas they went out the second day of Christmas and continued till about the 6th of January and they had the mummers' dance then.
Ref: 90-26-52.
Interviewer: Sandra Matchett, Fermanagh County Museum.
© Fermanagh County Museum. |
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Patrick Kerrin |
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90-26-52.mp3
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