1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Scattery Island

School: Scattery Island

Location:
Scattery Island, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Nóra Ní Cholgáin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0630, Page 091

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0630, Page 091

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Scattery Island
  2. XML Page 091
  3. XML “Funny Story”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Funny Story (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    She reached John Moran's hill quite safely, and began taking the downward slope, when suddenly the load on her back was eased and without warning she felt herself gathering speed until at last she fell headlong into a clump of bushes. Jim by this had gone wild round the island, fingering lovingly the little pocket-knife that had helped him open up a hole to safety.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Scanlan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Scanlan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female