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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 Collection of Riddles

    CBÉS 0800

    Patrick Quinn, Thomas Quinn

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  2. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0800

    Patrick Quinn, Thomas Quinn

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  3. My Home District

    CBÉS 0800

    Patrick Quinn, Thomas Quinn

    Clonmore, Co. Offaly

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  4. My Home District

    CBÉS 0833

    Patrick Quinn

    Iry, Co. Laois

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  5. Fox and Geese

    CBÉS 0833

    Patrick Quinn

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  6. Riddles

    “Q. Why are the girls so fond of the moon?”

    CBÉS 0833

    Patrick Quinn

    Transcript

  7. Crib - Cradle Bird

    CBÉS 0833

    Patrick Quinn

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  8. Churning

    CBÉS 0833

    Patrick Quinn

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  9. Funny Stories

    CBÉS 0845

    Patrick Quinn, Thomas Willon

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    “Nearly one hundred years ago a man named "Toby the Thatcher" emigrated to America with a great number of other people that were leaving the country because of the famine.”

    CBÉS 0886

    Áine Ní Chearbhall, Patrick Quinn

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    “Once upon a time there was a man living in a house...”

    CBÉS 0927

    Patrick Quinn

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  12. A Fairy Story

    CBÉS 1032

    Anna Quinn, Patrick Quinn

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  13. A True Story

    CBÉS 1032

    Anna Quinn, Patrick Quinn

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  14. A True Story

    CBÉS 1032

    Anna Quinn, Patrick Quinn

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  15. Folklore - Food of People Long Ago

    CBÉS 1109

    Dan Quinn, Patrick Quinn

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