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The Schools’ Collection

This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information

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  1. Stories of Hidden Treasures in the District

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Dan Treacy

    Transcript

  2. Bird-Lore

    “Robins, Wrens, Yellow-hammers, Crows, Seagulls, Magpies, Willy-wagtails, Thrushes, Blackbird, Curlew, Cranes, Bats, Swallows, Daws and larks...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Dan Treacy

    Transcript

  3. Local Cures

    “To cure the whooping-cough is, to bring a grey donkey on the floor. and to give him bread to eat and whatever bread the donkey would let fall out of his mouth the person with the whooping-cough was to eat it...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Mr Maher

    Transcript

  4. Homemade Toys

    “To gather rushes and cut them all the same length and get four of them and twist them in and out and it would make a lovely rod...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Dan Treacy

    Transcript

  5. Travelling Folk

    “Tom Coady is an old man with a meg of beard and he would stay a couple of days in a house if he was let...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Mr Maher

    Transcript

  6. Fairy Forts

    “There is a fairy fort in Pat Ryan's land in Shanakill...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Mr Maher

    Transcript

  7. Proverbs

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Mr Maher

    Transcript

  8. Food in Olden Times

    “Only two meals a day were eaten in olden times, the breakfast and tea...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Mr Maher

    Transcript

  9. Saint Fintan's Well

    CBÉS 0835

    Bridie Maher, Mrs Maher

    Transcript