>This is how Peg Sayers spoke about Christmas on Blascaoid Móir Island in 1947 on Raidió Éireann while talking to Séamus Ennis and Seán Mac Réamoinn and Joe de Lacy.
>In this recording, we hear the famous narrator talking about the joy the young people on the island used to have as they looked forward to Christmas. She says that ‘féríní’ used to come to them from far and wide. She spoke about the work that the ‘grown up’ girls used to do while preparing for Christmas.
>She explained that people used to go from house to house visiting their neighbors while dancing, playing music and celebrating Christmas. Peig also mentions the special role played by the wren, a tradition that can still be seen in Corca Dhuibhne. She also mentions the special candle that used to be lit on Christmas Eve in the houses of the Island. ‘They spent Christmas comfortably’, she says of the people of the Island.
>Talking about the Christmas and New Year greetings, Sayers mentioned the special greeting ‘an sonas isteach an donas amach’
(‘the happiness in the badness out’) to start the new year.
‘They spent Christmas comfortably’, she says of the people of the Island.
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>This is how Peg Sayers spoke about Christmas on Blascaoid Móir Island in 1947 on Raidió Éireann while talking to Séamus Ennis and Seán Mac Réamoinn and Joe de Lacy.
>In this recording, we hear the famous narrator talking about the joy the young people on the island used to have as they looked forward to Christmas. She says that ‘féríní’ used to come to them from far and wide. She spoke about the work that the ‘grown up’ girls used to do while preparing for Christmas.
>She explained that people used to go from house to house visiting their neighbors while dancing, playing music and celebrating Christmas. Peig also mentions the special role played by the wren, a tradition that can still be seen in Corca Dhuibhne. She also mentions the special candle that used to be lit on Christmas Eve in the houses of the Island. ‘They spent Christmas comfortably’, she says of the people of the Island.
>Talking about the Christmas and New Year greetings, Sayers mentioned the special greeting ‘an sonas isteach an donas amach’
(‘the happiness in the badness out’) to start the new year.
‘They spent Christmas comfortably’, she says of the people of the Island.
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