National Folklore Collection UCD Digitization Project

650,707 manuscript pages, 12,917 photographs and 87 hours of audio are available here

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Seán Mac Mathúna Folklore Collection

Seán Mac Mathúna (1876–1949)

Over 14,000 pages of material collected by Seán Mac Mathúna (1876–1949) have been added to the Main Manuscript Collection.

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  • The Main Manuscript Collection

    This collection includes every aspect of the Irish oral tradition.

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  • The Schools’ Collection

    This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s.

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  • The Photographic Collection

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

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  • The Audio Collection

    The recordings in this collection describe all aspects of Irish folklore and tradition.

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