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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. A Story

    “There was a poor man living near a gentleman. He had a little son.”

    CBÉS 0130

    Jack Conroy, Pat Healy

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  2. Mar a Fuair Muigh na gCon an tAinm

    CBÉS 0130

    Michael Ruddy, Pat Healy

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  3. St Patrick at the Rivers Duff and Drowes

    CBÉS 0155

    Pat Healy, Patrick Mc Hugh

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  4. The Good People

    CBÉS 0155

    Pat Healy, Patrick Mc Hugh

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  5. The Cure of the Colic

    CBÉS 0155

    Pat Healy, Patrick Mc Hugh

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  6. The Townland where the Cock Never Crows

    CBÉS 0155

    Pat Healy, Pat Mc Hugh

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  7. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0168

    Mabel Howley, Pat Healy

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    “Once upon a time a man and his wife were living in a small house in the middle of a bog.”

    CBÉS 0406

    Maurice Healy, Pat Healy

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    “There was once a man going to confession very late at night and there was thunder and lightning there and it was raining very heavily.”

    CBÉS 0406

    Nicholas Costello, Pat Healy

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  10. (no title)

    “There was once a man and he used be out late every night.”

    CBÉS 0406

    Michael Leahy, Pat Healy

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  11. (no title)

    “There was once a man coming home from town about one o' clock in the night and he had to cross a fort.”

    CBÉS 0406

    Nicholas Costello, Pat Healy

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  12. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0407

    John Fitzgerald, Pat Healy

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  13. A Whirlwind

    CBÉS 0463

    John Healy, Pat Healy

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