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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. Land War

    CBÉS 0519

    Mr Maher, Peggie Maher

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  2. Potato-Lore

    CBÉS 0519

    Kathleen Maher, Mr Maher

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  3. An Old Ruin

    CBÉS 0519

    Kathleen Maher, Mr Maher

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  4. Old Place Names

    “Green Ann". The Green "Hill of Anns"...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Dan Maher, Mr Maher

    An tSeanchill, Co. Thiobraid Árann

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  5. Local Cures

    “Bees wax and honey would cure the "thrush"...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Mary Maher, Mr Maher

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  6. Local Cures

    “To cure the whooping-cough is, to bring a grey donkey on the floor. and to give him bread to eat and whatever bread the donkey would let fall out of his mouth the person with the whooping-cough was to eat it...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Mr Maher

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  7. Local Cures

    “A cure for a toothache in olden times was to go to a grave-yard and rise up an old man's head and pull out a tooth...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Dan Maher, Mr Maher

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  8. Homemade Toys

    “I am able to make a gun for squarting water with an alder and it is empty inside and you would get a sally rod and put a rag on the top of it...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Dan Maher, Mr Maher

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  9. Travelling Folk

    “Tom Coady is an old man with a meg of beard and he would stay a couple of days in a house if he was let...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Mr Maher

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  10. Fairy Forts

    “There is a fairy fort in Pat Ryan's land in Shanakill...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Mr Maher

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  11. Fairy Forts

    “There is a fairy fort in John Fitzpatrick's...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Dan Maher, Mr Maher

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  12. Proverbs

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Mr Maher

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  13. The Local Roads

    “There was another road called the old Road...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Dan Maher, Mr Maher

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  14. Food in Olden Times

    “Only two meals a day were eaten in olden times, the breakfast and tea...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Bridie Maher, Mr Maher

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  15. Food in Olden Times

    “The people used to eat fresh meat sometimes...”

    CBÉS 0547

    Mary Maher, Mr Maher

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  16. A Story

    “One Saturday night some people were playing cards in a house in Wilford.”

    CBÉS 0556

    Kathleen Walshe, Mr Maher

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    “There was an old woman living in Tinakilly. She always had a great culm fire.”

    CBÉS 0556

    Kathleen Walshe, Mr Maher

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  18. Caisleán an Chláir

    CBÉS 0557

    Mr Maher

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  19. Hidden Treasures

    CBÉS 0835

    Annie Maher, Mr Maher

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