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Caption: A selection of
Folkore & Customs
May Day- Bealtaine
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Caption: #Bealtaine ar cheann de na hócáidí a mbíodh na daoine an-chosantach ar shochar an bhainne, ar rath an tí & ar thoradh na talún
#MayDay was one occasion people were protective of milk profits, luck of the house & fertility of the land
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Caption: Samhradh, samhradh, bainne na ngamhna
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn
Samhradh buí na nóinín glégeal
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn (Traditional Song)
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Caption: Summer, summer, milk of the calves We have brought the summer with us. Yellow summer of the bright, clear daisies, We have brought the summer with us
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Caption: Newly-calved cows needed special protection to ensure protection of milk profit (sochar an bhainne)
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Caption: If you gave away milk or butter on a May morning you would give away your luck for the year.
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Caption: From the Irish Folklore Collection https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4921577/4881211/5146419
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Caption: It is unlucky to bring white-thorn blossoms into the house during the month of May
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Caption: Bring flowers of the rarest
bring blossoms the fairest,
from garden and woodland and hillside and dale;
our full hearts are swelling,
our glad voices telling
the praise of the loveliest flower of the vale!
O Mary we crown thee with blossoms today!
Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May.
O Mary we crown thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May…
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Caption: Is é an t-amadán a bhainfeadh an sceach. (It's a fool who would cut a tree) Lone trees/sceach geal are inhabited by fairies. Good luck to have on your land but bad luck to interfere with them.
#connemara #WildAtlanticWay
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Caption: Bíodh grian an mheánlae sa leaba agat sula n-éiríonn tú Lá Bealtaine.
Mí-adh tine a chur síos go moch ar Lá Bealtaine
The midday sun should be shining before you get up on #mayday bad luck to put a fire down early on may day
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Caption: Bealtaine Just a small selection
of May Traditions from #Ireland
Discover more folklore & stories
in #connemara along the #wildatlanticway