Summary: Story Telling
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Story telling has a long history in Ulster. The stories and songs were usually spread by word of mouth and therefore they changed slightly as they moved from district to district. Here is a contemporary record of the practice:
“….in the evening after the day’s labour was over the males and part of the females of each village of houses collected in one house and spent the early part of the night in singing Irish songs and telling old stories in turn and so from house to house in turn”.
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