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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.
March 8, 1981 in Ireland
1948, Dublin, Irish Free State
6 December 1932, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
1945 in Dublin, Ireland, UK
2 June 1961, Dublin, Ireland
January 28, 1981 in Dublin, Ireland
1947, Dublin, Ireland
28 December 1938, Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland
