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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. Superstitions

    CBÉS 0050

    Ita Lynch, Mrs Lynch

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  2. Local Marriage Customs

    CBÉS 0050

    Ita Lynch, Mrs Lynch

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  3. The Great Storm of 1902

    CBÉS 0050

    Ita Lynch, Mrs Lynch

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  4. Old Crafts

    CBÉS 0050

    Ita Lynch, Mrs Lynch

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  5. Birds

    CBÉS 0050

    Ita Lynch, Mrs Lynch

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  6. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0050

    Ita Lynch, Mrs Lynch

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  7. The Lord of Benbow

    CBÉS 0200

    Lizze Lynch, Mrs Lynch

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  8. A Funny Story

    CBÉS 0284

    Donal Lynch, Mrs Lynch

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  9. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0353

    Mrs Lynch, Sorca Ní Loinsig

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  10. (no title)

    “Long ago there was a house outside Ballylongford and the sea came in and flooded it.”

    CBÉS 0403

    Mrs Lynch, Tony Barrett

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  11. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0404

    Kitty Lynch, Mrs Lynch

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  12. Festival Customs

    CBÉS 0404

    Kitty Lynch, Mrs Lynch

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  13. A Story

    CBÉS 0417

    Eddie Mulvihill, Mrs Lynch

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  14. A Story

    CBÉS 0417

    Frank Mulvihill, Mrs Lynch

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  15. A Story

    CBÉS 0417

    Frank Mulvihill, Mrs Lynch

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  16. How People Made Linen Long Ago

    CBÉS 0456

    Mrs Lynch

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  17. How the Englishman Inquired of the Kerry Peasant

    CBÉS 0456

    Mrs Lynch

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  18. (no title)

    “How the Eeel, that lives in the golden palace in Lough Kittane, walked one midsummer night into the Lower Lake...”

    CBÉS 0456

    Mrs Lynch

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  19. (no title)

    “How Oisin used to see white horses riding through his fields "So says he" by Jakers...”

    CBÉS 0456

    Mrs Lynch

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  20. (no title)

    “How the blessed Abbot of Ennis Fallen walked for two hundred years about the little Island that was'nt a mile round and the way of it was this...”

    CBÉS 0456

    Mrs Lynch

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