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Wakes, Fairs and Feasts

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When holidays were unheard-of, the upside was that there were any number of Saints' days to celebrate. And there were any number of fairs and wakes.

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay ...thus begins the most famous wake of all, Finnegans. But back to the wakes, fairs and feasts.

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