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... question that • Holy Willie’s Prayer’ and the Epistle to Goodie' prepared the minds of the people around him for admiring his Halloween' and bis Cottar’s Saturday Night’ •• Of the person and manners of the Poet, at this important period of his life, we have ...

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... pranks for all seasons, and games of | As vary our ages 9 vary our ed are seen, And the young and the aged revels of gay Hallow-e'en ; ‘mid all, thy sad children forlorn 2 Pt beatland, To eee her braw Lion play “ Puss in the corner. Her soldiers are hr ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1853
Newspaper: Drogheda Conservative
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2814 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TII E CONSERVATIVE, SATURDAY, OCTOBBER 18, 11 16

... Sie W. Dugdale tells “@n Al Even the master of the used t bunch of straw, corne, saying :— on uy torn low,” of custom on Hallowe'en iu the time of Te weald seem, moreover, that the greatly to the annoyance of Archbishop with bis he prevailed with the king ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1855
Newspaper: Drogheda Conservative
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 6967 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE IRISH ALL SOULS* NIGHT

... to hoar Dear voices murmur his brain ; And left, with weary soul, the drear Vain longing to be glad again. Ten of these Hallow-e’ens had fled, Since, for their lx*t. their eyes were wet: And now once more the board was spread— The seat before the lire ...

HALLOWE'EN AT BALMORAL CASTLE

... HALLOWE'EN AT BALMORAL CASTLE. The old Scottish festival a Hallowe'en. the observance of which has gradually fallen into neglect in Scotland, especially in the lowland part of the country, has of late years been revived on Dee-side with all its peculiar ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1873
Newspaper: Drogheda Conservative
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 519 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HALLOWE'EN AT BALMORAL

... HALLOWE'EN AT BALMORAL. On Wednesday morning leer 'Alajesty and Prince lls liestrece. attendee! by the MarcMoneta of Ely and another lady in waiting, drove to Braemar in an open carriage drawn by four greys with mounted postillion*. and preceded by an ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1874
Newspaper: Dundalk Herald
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 435 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ELOPEMENT IN NEWRY

... give their couseut. They could not part with their prinnisiug pet. Eutreattes were vain. Their hearts were wade of flmt. On Hallowe'en uight the lovers were the happiest of the happy. We'll burn two outs, he, and if they stand to each other we'll taim ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1875
Newspaper: Dundalk Herald
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 398 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

URUENT DEMANDS OF _RUSSIA

... every sin rim of it opposite. Well, one day a big moon▪ fellow caine to his duty, and nays he, 'I broke • isners bead last Hallowe'en.' • That's ninopence: the priest. '1 cut limo tail or Larry Kelly's • T bat's a shillin'—oh. be gof, a ghillie' it sad doer ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1876
Newspaper: Drogheda Conservative
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2383 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... proposes, at his leisure, to enter was against it, and, after a speech from Mr. Low- sting the young girls that whoever on Hallowe'en into a defence of his absences from Parliament in ther, it was rejected by a majority of 241, having THE . oral place • ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1878
Newspaper: Drogheda Conservative
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3857 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A MAN WllO NEVER SMILES

... nothing but the sad remembrance of that diesdfal night. In Ireland they have a superstition the young girls that whoever on Hallowe'en place • cabbage over the doer will marry the tt man that enters the door afterwards. 15,1 it proved. WWI the errand of the ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1878
Newspaper: Drogheda Conservative
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2102 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

rliE DKOOHED& Atte Üb—ATUKDAY, OCTOBFaIt 22, CII APT YE V

... many are its fireside Customs and otamrvances Nuts and apples are in great requisition—so much so, that in Northera England Hallowe'en is known as linters& Nights. Nets are not only cracked and eaten, but they are made the means •f pro• pbeey or divination ...

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Published: Saturday 04 November 1882
Newspaper: Dundalk Herald
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1042 | Page: 3 | Tags: none