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War of the Buttons
The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, throwing stones and cutting off their opponents buttons etc. And sometimes they go to battle completely naked and exposed. In one such scene about 30 boys return from a battle to celebrate victory at a barn-house only to find some girls waiting for them and they get very embarrassed at losing their privacy.
2 June 1961, Dublin, Ireland
20 March 1980, Ireland
March 8, 1981 in Ireland
January 28, 1981 in Dublin, Ireland
2 October 1943, Dublin, Ireland
1947, Dublin, Ireland
25 October 1922, Fairview, Dublin, Ireland
