Excerpts from an interview with Éibhlis de Barra about Saint Stephen’s DayFor this interview's catalogue entry click here
Description
Excerpt 1: Children born on St Stephen's day are always called Stephen
Excerpt 2: St Stephen's day in Cork city in the 1930s
Excerpt 3: Cork story about the origin of 'the wren'
Excerpt 4: Wren boys in Cork city
Excerpt 5: Wren boys verses for money collecting
Excerpt 6: Corkman throwing hot pennies at Wren boys
Excerpt 7: No girls for the wren
Excerpt 8: Wren boy's districts
Excerpt 9: Wren's rhyme
Excerpt 10: Wren boy's using doors as Bodhrans to provide a beat to their singing
Excerpt 11: Wren boys go to the pictures with the money they collected
Excerpt 12: Games wre boys played with the pennies they collected
Excerpt 2: St Stephen's day in Cork city in the 1930s
Excerpt 3: Cork story about the origin of 'the wren'
Excerpt 4: Wren boys in Cork city
Excerpt 5: Wren boys verses for money collecting
Excerpt 6: Corkman throwing hot pennies at Wren boys
Excerpt 7: No girls for the wren
Excerpt 8: Wren boy's districts
Excerpt 9: Wren's rhyme
Excerpt 10: Wren boy's using doors as Bodhrans to provide a beat to their singing
Excerpt 11: Wren boys go to the pictures with the money they collected
Excerpt 12: Games wre boys played with the pennies they collected
Date
16/03/1988
Identifier
UCCFEA_SR00003-01_WAVC
Collection
Citation
“Excerpts from an interview with Éibhlis de Barra about Saint Stephen’s DayFor this interview's catalogue entry click here,” UCCFEA, accessed April 30, 2024, http://epu.ucc.ie/folklore/items/show/429.