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Lighting a candle in the window on Christmas Eve

Lighting a candle in the window on Christmas Eve

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Your Stories - Our Histories

Have you visited the Museum of Country Life?
A magical country wonderland
A memory from the late 1940s - early 1950s
A nostalgia filled visit
An emotional journey
Cable, diamond and moss stitches
Cat, give the fire a blow!
Christmas Eve family activity
Clocking hens and plucking turkeys
Fair day in Mullagh, County Cavan
Fair days in Ballina, Co. Mayo
Fair Days in Castlebar
Floury spuds and thick slices of bacon and cabbage
Fossilized farming
Growing up in a border village in 1930s and 1940s Ireland
Keeping the fire always burning
Lighting a candle in the window on Christmas Eve
Lovely memories of rural life to hold on to
Memories of great solidarity
Memories of tea in a billy can
Milking the goat in a thatched cottage
My father, a great blacksmith and stallion man
My precious memories of very happy times
Pig ribs, tails and trotters in barrels of brine
Remembering the hardship of everyday life
Rural life at the foot of the Dublin Mountains
Saturday night bath time
Shoe mending still being done the traditional way
Stories of fairies and bogs that move in the night
Strawboys, bonfires, station masses and waking the dead.
Summer holiday spent in Mohill, Co. Leitrim
The Drag Home
The pink sheep dip
Traditional dress worn by my grandmother
Working on the bog

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