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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. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0786

    John Mac Nally

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  2. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0786

    Thomas Coleman

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  3. Shipwrecks

    CBÉS 0786

    Thomas Mac Nally

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  4. Shipwrecks

    CBÉS 0786

    John Christy

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  5. Shipwrecks

    CBÉS 0786

    John Mac Nally

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  6. Riddles

    CBÉS 0786

    John Mac Nally

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  7. Riddles

    CBÉS 0786

    James Mc Girl

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  8. Riddles

    CBÉS 0786

    Thomas Coleman

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  9. Riddles

    CBÉS 0786

    Joseph Plunkett

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    “Many years ago the people had no lamps or parafin oil to burn in them.”

    CBÉS 0786

    Mrs Nicel

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  11. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0786

    Joseph Plunkett

    Transcript

  12. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0786

    Thomas Coleman

    Transcript

  13. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0786

    Thomas Mac Nally

    Transcript

  14. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0786

    James Mac Girl

    Transcript

  15. Shipwrecks

    CBÉS 0786

    Thomas Coleman

    Transcript

  16. Shipwrecks

    CBÉS 0786

    Joseph Plunkett

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  17. Shipwrecks

    CBÉS 0786

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  18. (no title)

    “One time there was a man named Val Collins who got a woar on the strand.”

    CBÉS 0786

    Rita Coffey

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  19. (no title)

    “One night about (thri) thirty-three years ago my father went out to milk the cows.”

    CBÉS 0786

    Mrs Mary Anne Plunkett

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    “One winter's night about twenty years ago a man named John Farrell, Baldungan, Lusk, Co Dublin walked across the fields to Rush.”

    CBÉS 0786

    John Farrell

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