National Folklore Collection UCD Digitization Project

250,459 stories from the Schools’ Collection (1937-38) and 9,771 images from the Photographic Collection are available here

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The Photographic Collection

Croaghgorm or Blue Stack Mountains; Blue Stack Mountains, Co. Donegal

Ardrahan, Co. Kerry

Stories about Halloween from the Schools' Collection.

New dúchas.ie website and Photographic Collection launched by Joe McHugh T.D. Press-release available here.

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A collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s.

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The photographs in this collection reveal many aspects of Irish life and culture over the past century or more.

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This is a collection of surnames that developed from the work of the Irish Folklore Commission. Find alternate spellings of Irish surnames.

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