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

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  1. List of Irish Words and Phrases Adopted into the Living English Speech of the Galltacht

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson, Mrs Sammon, Mrs Tierney

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  2. Historic - Local Traditions Regarding Danes

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  3. (no title)

    “When the Danes had well established themselves in Ireland they kept a large fleet of boats on Lough Derg.”

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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    “What was the ruling Irish family or clan in the district before the establishment of the English power there.”

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  5. Local Traditions of Historic Personages or Events Since the Coming of the English

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Darcy

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  6. Brennan on the Moor

    CBÉS 0530

    John Heenan

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  7. Brennan on the Moor (another version)

    CBÉS 0530

    Rody Kennedy

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  8. (no title)

    “Michael Hawkins was a Rapparee of Tipperary in the early part of the 19th century.”

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  9. Traditions of '98

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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    “A priest-hunting event occurred about the same time as the above one in Roscrea, where there lived a priest who had eluded capture.”

    CBÉS 0530

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  11. United Irishman

    CBÉS 0530

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  12. The Terries

    CBÉS 0530

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  13. (no title)

    “During the time of the Terries there lived in Finnoe, Borrisokane, a landlord named Walter, who was notorious as an evictor and hunter of the Catholics of the land.”

    CBÉS 0530

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    “About 100 years ago the lived in Kylanoe a family named Reid...”

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Hogan

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  15. (no title)

    “A man named Pat Nolan lived in Firmount, Carrigahorig at the time of the Terries.”

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Carroll

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    “There lived in this district well over a hundred yers ago a Terry named Darby Hogan.”

    CBÉS 0530

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  17. Some Traditions of Penal Days

    CBÉS 0530

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  18. Penal Days

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  19. Penal Days

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  20. Local Traditions of Famine Period

    “Local traditions of famine period, the sufferings of the people, the numbers who died of the famine in the locality.”

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Darcy

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