Random Thoughts

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

We also had a tradition of killing a bird, then taking it round to peoples' houses and begging money to pay for the funeral.  Odd how that one never caught on.

Boru

Would that be the Wrenboys? They still go out on St. Stephens Day in some parts of Ireland, especially Kerry. Though they no longer kill the wee wren.

Right so.  I grew up on a farm near Ballymena, and when I was a kid, we still did the whole dead bird thing, but it was dying out even then.  Still remember the song, though. 

Boru