{"id":2085,"date":"2015-07-25T01:37:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T01:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2015-07-25T01:38:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T01:38:11","slug":"wake-at-ballinalee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/wake-at-ballinalee\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake at Ballinalee"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My mother told of attending a wake when a child in her native village Ballinalee, where the pipes that were smoked cermonially at the wake were swiped by her and her freinds. Having no tobacco to smoke, they filled them first with turf and then with coal, only to become deadly sick. The alarmed adults didnt know what was after happening, and they were too afraid to tell due to the beating expected, a secret only told to their own children in time&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2086\" style=\"width: 1238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/funeral-clay-smoking-pipes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/funeral-clay-smoking-pipes.jpg\" alt=\"Clay pipe remnant of the kind that was smoked at an Irish funeral years  ago. Wefound tons of these in our garden in Banagher when I was a child growing up. This sample is from County Clare.\" width=\"1238\" height=\"367\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/funeral-clay-smoking-pipes.jpg 1238w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/funeral-clay-smoking-pipes-300x89.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/funeral-clay-smoking-pipes-1024x304.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1238px) 100vw, 1238px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clay pipe remnant of the kind that was smoked at an Irish funeral years  ago. We found tons of these in our garden in Banagher when I was a child growing up. This sample is from County Clare.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The spirits looked down as people muttered<br \/>\nGaelic and Latin prayers<br \/>\nMore prayed some lines in English<br \/>\nChildren played under the stairs<br \/>\nSome pipes smuggled out, filled with turf and coal<br \/>\nLit with candle wick<br \/>\nThey thought themselves grown up, the little fools<br \/>\nBefore becoming deadly sick.<\/p>\n<p>The adults thought they ate something bad<br \/>\nThe children in pain puked and wept<br \/>\nStory not to be told till they had children of their own<br \/>\nThe secret of the sickness from all was kept.<br \/>\nThere was music and keening as was the tradition<br \/>\nWith pauses from prayers to be said<br \/>\nFor traditions sake family held the wake<br \/>\nLast of the old rituals held for the dead.<\/p>\n<p>Glossary<\/p>\n<p>*keening &#8211; crying (Irish Gaelic). The Irish had a tradition from pagan times of celebrating the dead. Frowned on by the church, women were hired to cry for the dead, the more there, the wealthier the family looked. Some say its the origin of the banshee belief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother told of attending a wake when a child in her native village Ballinalee, where the pipes that were smoked cermonially at the wake were swiped by her and her freinds. Having no tobacco to smoke, they filled them first with turf and then with coal, only to become &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,256,23],"tags":[115,2354,2261,42,2262,1052],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-irish-heritage","category-north-longford","tag-ballinalee","tag-death","tag-funeral","tag-longford","tag-pipes","tag-tradition","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-xD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2328,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/saintjohnstown-so-beautiful-a-name\/","url_meta":{"origin":2085,"position":0},"title":"Saintjohnstown &#8211; So Beautiful A Name","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"1st October 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"My mother grew up outside the Longford village of Ballinalee. 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