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

Date

16/03/1988

Identifier

UCCFEA_SR00003-01_WAVC

Citation

“Excerpts from an interview with Éibhlis de Barra about Saint Stephen’s DayFor this interview's catalogue entry click here,” UCCFEA, accessed December 12, 2024, http://epu.ucc.ie/folklore/items/show/429.