Only one meal a day, at 3 o'clock p . m ., was allowed, except on Sundays and Feast days . Wednesdays and Fridays were fast days, except the interval between Easter and Whit Sunday.
22.
The last big raid to pass over the town on Whit Sunday ( 19 May 1918 ), carried out by a number of Gothas, eliciting perhaps the most ferocious barrage from the ground defences the town had ever seen.
23.
As a result of Suez affair, forecasts for 1957 season were gloomy, but the programme ran as planned, the two feature meeting of the year being run for the new Formula Two on Whit Sunday and August Bank Holiday.
24.
The political stance of the remaining Volunteers was not always popular, and a 1, 000-strong march led by Pearse through the garrison city of Limerick on Whit Sunday, 1915, was pelted with rubbish by a hostile crowd.
25.
The club bought 3, 000 acres of land including Great Gable and donated it to the National Trust in memory of these members, and the plaque was dedicated on Whit Sunday 1924 by Geoffrey Winthrop Young in front of 500 people.
26.
There was a colliery there, and several tramways were built to connect pits in the area to the M & KR . The line was leased for 30 years from Whit Sunday 1838 to Addie and Millar [ or Miller ] and worked by them.
27.
In March 1883, despite the receipt of two plans for the church and ?050, Father O'Connell decided it was expedient to delay the laying of the foundation stone until Whit Sunday on 13 May 1883, on which day the ceremony was duly conducted by Archbishop Dunne.
28.
Each year on Whit Sunday bread and cheese is thrown from the wall of the castle to local'Dole Claimers'dressed in medieval costume .'Dole claimers'could be anyone who paid a penny to the incumbent Earl of Hereford entitling them to gather firewood from the nearby Hudnalls wood.
29.
The Battle of Monte Porzio or "'Battle of Tusculum "'was fought on 29 May 1167, Whit Sunday, between the Holy Roman Empire and the city of Rome between a small hill outside the city of Tusculum and the city walls, at a place called " Prataporci ", about 15 miles southeast of Rome.
30.
From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).
