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Respect for Catholics on the 12th. |
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Margaret Flanagan: Up at home now, Letterbreen was a very Protestant place. Then go on ahead to Mullaghdun, it’s a very Catholic place. Well our wee Chapel, I don’t know if you know where the Mullaghdun Chapel is but there’s a road goin’ up past it, they call it the Cross.
Interviewer: Yeah.
Margaret Flanagan: Well these, Mass would be goin on there in the Chapel and these playboys now before the twelfth of July, on the Sunday before, they would always parade up the Church, the Protestant band and they’d play their whole way up to Mullaghdun Cross, and when they’d come to Mullaghdun Cross they stopped playin’ and they walked up past the Chapel to what we call the Black Gate and once they got past the Black Gate they started and played on up to their own Church. Their Church was at the top of the road. Now wasn’t that nice?
Interviewer: Well it was, wasn’t it? It was
Margaret Flanagan: They done that year in and year out, the Protestants.
Ref: 99-022-103.
Interviewer: Joan Duffy, Women's Oral History Project.
© Fermanagh County Museum and Clogher Historical Society. |
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Margaret Flanagan |
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99-022-103.mp3
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