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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. Local Song

    “By her side she let it fall,”

    CBÉS 0014

    Patrick Davis

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    “It being on the twenty fourth of May”

    CBÉS 0014

    Patrick Davis

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  3. The Races of Glennamaddy

    CBÉS 0014

    Mrs Connelly

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  4. Song

    “May God bless and save us,”

    CBÉS 0014

    Mrs C Mylott

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  5. Travelling Folk

    CBÉS 0014

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  6. Old Prayers

    CBÉS 0014

    Mrs Ryan

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  7. Old Prayers

    “Úluighim agus Íslighim Duit a Shlánaitheor”

    CBÉS 0014

    Mrs Connelly

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  8. Old Prayers

    “As I looked up, As I looked down,”

    CBÉS 0014

    John Cullinan

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  9. Old Prayers

    “As I lay on my bed to sleep I pray to God my soul to keep and if I die before I wake”

    CBÉS 0014

    John Cullinan

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  10. Old Prayers

    “Trúst is grásta agus grásta ó Dia againn.”

    CBÉS 0014

    Mrs Connelly

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  11. Old Prayers

    “God bless and save us all, may Brigid Patrick St. Colmcille guard each wall”

    CBÉS 0014

    Mrs James Ryan

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  12. Old Prayers

    “As I lay down on my right side I give my soul to God to keep.”

    CBÉS 0014

    Mrs Mc Dermott

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  13. Old Prayers

    “There are four corners on this bed,”

    CBÉS 0014

    Mrs Reilly

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  14. Old Prayers

    “This prayer is already written but this is it again in a different version.”

    CBÉS 0014

    Mary Ellen Connelly

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  15. Local Ruins

    CBÉS 0014

    Mrs Mac Dermott

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  16. The Care of Our Farm Animals

    CBÉS 0014

    Mary Ellen Connelly

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  17. Puzzles

    CBÉS 0014

    Brigid Longe

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  18. Old Houses

    CBÉS 0014

    Mary Connelly

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  19. Old Houses

    “There is a mud house in Madabain which is in the Farm district.”

    CBÉS 0014

    Mrs Mc Dermott

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  20. Old Houses Ruins

    CBÉS 0014

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