The Buds of Ballybunion

<p>From the author of internationally renowned author of <em>Sive</em>. </p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The Buds come to Ballybunion for their yearly break before the snows of winter whiten the hills. (Bud is an abbreviation of the Gaelic word Bodaire meaning a sort of rough country person). </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>They bring with them their own eggs bacon bread butter jam cabbage spuds etcetera. They pay for their lodgings and the landlady Mary O'Dea does the cooking. They are alas the last of their kind. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>In came the Ballybunion Buds their vittles for to ate 'Twas hard-boiled eggs and griddle bread and lumps of hairy mate. 'Twas hard-boiled eggs for breakfast and 'twas softboiled eggs for tay You could hear the craturs clocking and they facing for the say.</span></p>