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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. The Dead Coach

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

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  2. Another Song

    “As Paddy McGabe was dyong one day”

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

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  3. A True Story

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

  4. Cures

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

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  5. Customs

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

  6. (no title)

    “If a man meets a woman, especially a red haired woman and he going to the fair, he goes back home...”

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

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    “There was a well at Boyle. St. Patrick's Well. I heard my father saying he saw 2 small trout in it.”

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

  8. The Kings of Rockingham

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

  9. (no title)

    “There is a mass bush on the land of my uncle John Hunt at "the Ford”

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

  10. (no title)

    “In Jamestown school yard, an old stone stands on its end, against the Chapel wall.”

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

  11. The Night of the Wisp

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

  12. A Tale of the Famine

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

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  13. (no title)

    “The "line" and the other new road at the back of our house in Doon Boyle were blocked out for relief work in famine times.”

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

  14. Old Song

    “On the edge of a bog, on a splendid estate”

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

  15. Milking and Collecting Milk

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

  16. Old Prayer

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

  17. Another Version of Prayer

    CBÉS 0210

    Mary Gorman, Mrs Hunt

    Transcript

  18. Herbs

    CBÉS 0411

    John Dineen, Mary Gorman

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    “There was a man cutting turf in Ballinagar bog and he saw a little Leipreachan up on a sod of turf out in the wild bog.”

    CBÉS 0411

    John Dineen, Mary Gorman

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  20. (no title)

    “The people used also have potatoe cakes.”

    CBÉS 0411

    John Dineen, Mary Gorman

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