As I was saying, the parents knew nothing of the niceties of procedure, etiquette or decorum.
Folklore
More gypsy tales
They had little going for them in the academic field and almost invariably ended up as bottom of the class.
Travellers or NOT !
Some kindly women of The Meadow would store unwanted clothes in great bags for the Travelling Woman on her calls. Was she grateful? Well, selectively.
Gypsy Woman Calls
We had regular begging calls at home in The Meadow from the Tinkers – or gypsies or Travelling People – back in the 1950s.
The Changeling 2
Jack told the lady of how he had rescued the baby from the fairies and taken it home to his wife for safekeeping from them.
Changeling
Jack Murphy lived in the townland of Leod, near Hilltown. You can see Fitzpatricks’ Quarry buildings rise up about a mile away to your left after you pass the Seven Sisters. That’s Leod.
Morning on John Bwee’s hill
Here and there a living house doffed a plume of smoke to the new spirit of the morning. The pastures as yet were empty and the other fields still.
Priddie Hokers
It was, they agreed, a hasky day but powerful for the time of year and good for getting out the pratties. The three of us were digging them out with spades, gathering at intervals.
The Bard of Armagh
The tune of ‘The Bard of Armagh’ has often been borrowed for country and pop songs – “The Streets of Laredo”, ‘Only the Heartaches’ , Dominic Behan’s “The Patriot Game” and an antiwar song of Bob Dylan’s “With God on our Side”, just for example. These are the words of the original (?) ……….