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

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  1. Daniel Shanahan

    CBÉS 0510

    Joan O' Dwyer, M. Dwyer

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  2. Michaelmas Day

    CBÉS 0582

    M. Dwyer, Mrs J. Dwyer

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  3. (no title)

    “Long ago there used to be a pattern in Cork on Michaelmas Day.”

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, M. Grady

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  4. (no title)

    “One day there was a fair in Bawn and a fight rose between the Bayswell men and another crowd.”

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, M. Grady

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  5. (no title)

    “There used a dead woman named Petticoat Lucy haunt Fertagh trying to hard the people.”

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, M. Grady

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  6. (no title)

    “One night there was a man named Connell coming home from the town.”

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer

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  7. Riddles

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, M. Grady

    Transcript

  8. Customs

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, Margaret Grady

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  9. Scéal na hÁite

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, M. Grady

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  10. (no title)

    “There was a bad landlord named Ellis near Templetuohy. A man named Gleeson shot him.”

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, M. Grady

    Transcript

  11. (no title)

    “There was a man in County Kilkenny who was a Catholic and he turned Protestant and married.”

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, M. Grady

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  12. (no title)

    “A man named Cody lived in Kavanagh's Castle.”

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, M. Grady

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  13. (no title)

    “There was a landlord named Keating who lived in Woodsgift. He evicted all the Graine tenants.”

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, M. Grady

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  14. (no title)

    “There was a landlord in Violet Hill who evicted the tenants.”

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, M. Grady

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  15. (no title)

    “One night a man was coming home across a bog. He lost his way and fell into a bog hole and was drowned.”

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, M. Grady

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  16. (no title)

    “There was a woman living in Fertagh and she was fond of stealing.”

    CBÉS 0869

    M. Dwyer, M. Grady

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