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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

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

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

THE DROGHEDA ARGUS-BATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1899

... that 11W. wrote : -- There was not toe kw that Onto' undastand that Mr Markey is to meet There was weti th , move that the Hallowe'ens aeolation re the acres think, some. usage deak a ati en _t Ha s and extra half-acres for labourers cottages be papers were ...

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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... 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

Tllll DROGHEDA ARGUS-SATURDAY, JANUARY 12. 18 89

... of Tara began on October 28 Three days were given to games and feasting. On the third day and evening, corresponding with Halloween, the great least of Semen, or the moon, was celebrated, after which instruc- Lion, councils, and lawgiving were begun. At ...

THE DROGHEDA CONSERVATIVE, SATURDAY. JANUARY 22, 1887

... man would take • farm from which a tenant was evicted under any circumstances. WRECK OF A TEA SHIP. The full-rigged ship Halloween, of London, bound from Foochow with a cargo of tea, valued at £40,000. went ashore near Bolt Head on Monday night. The second ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1887
Newspaper: Drogheda Conservative
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6792 | Page: 7 | Tags: none