Glossary entry for
snowball

A snowball is a kind of sweet bun covered with coconut. When [Van list member Will Irwin] was at high (grammer) school a motorised van used to show up just outside the gates every morning at 11:00am break time, and a disorderly mob used to besiege it to buy snowballs.

Photograph contributed by East Belfast's own Maurice Kinkead

Van references in:

  • "A Sense of Wonder" (on A Sense of Wonder)



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