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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. Old Hallow Eve Customs

    CBÉS 0941

    Jane Jackson, Jean Jackson

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  2. Games We Play - Hounds and Hares

    CBÉS 0941

    Beatrice Thompson

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  3. Games We Play - Hawk and Chicken

    CBÉS 0941

    Muriel Thompson

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  4. Games We Play - Skittles

    CBÉS 0941

    Harold Cuming

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  5. Games We Play - The Old Horseshoe

    CBÉS 0941

    Jean Jackson

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  6. Games We Play - The Old Witch

    CBÉS 0941

    Sadie Rusk

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  7. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0941

    Dot Monaghan, Lily Monaghan

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  8. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0941

    Mrs Rusk, Sadie Rusk

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  9. Riddles

    CBÉS 0941

    Jean Jackson

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  10. Riddles

    CBÉS 0941

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  11. Proverbs

    CBÉS 0941

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  12. Funny Stories

    CBÉS 0941

    Beatrice Thompson

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  13. Funny Stories

    CBÉS 0941

    Muriel Thompson

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  14. A Story of a Fairy

    CBÉS 0941

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    “Once upon a time there was a man who lived in Donegal.”

    CBÉS 0941

    Madge Monaghan, Sadie Monaghan

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  16. (no title)

    “Long ago people believed that there were fairies in Ireland.”

    CBÉS 0941

    Jean Jackson, Thomas Maguire

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  17. Local Heroes

    CBÉS 0941

    Harold Cuming, Paddy Duffy

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    “John Rusk, my grandfather who lived at Stranooden near the town of Monaghan carried a twenty stone sack of corn to the cart going to the mill.”

    CBÉS 0941

    Sarah Rusk

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  19. James Hammond

    CBÉS 0941

    Joe Mills, John Mills

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  20. James Hammond

    CBÉS 0941

    Lily Monaghan, Sam Monaghan

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