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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 Signs

    CBÉS 0164

    Pat Hallinan

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  2. Folklore - Cures

    CBÉS 0164

    Edward Mullaney

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  3. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0164

    Michael Hanley

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  4. Story

    CBÉS 0164

    Naughton, Peter Naughton

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  5. A Fort

    CBÉS 0164

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  6. Folklore - Fishing - Chiefly Herring and Salmon

    CBÉS 0164

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  7. Folklore

    “Long ago in Ireland there was a tribe of people called poets.”

    CBÉS 0164

    Robert Rogan

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  8. Folklore

    CBÉS 0164

    John Rafter

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  9. Folklore

    CBÉS 0164

    Michael Hanley

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  10. Folklore

    “There were two forges in this town formerly.”

    CBÉS 0164

    Joseph Mullaney

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  11. Folklore

    “Many festivals are celebrated in this country.”

    CBÉS 0164

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  12. Folklore

    “The games I play are Hares and Hounds, Blind Man's Buff and the Wren Boy's.”

    CBÉS 0164

    Donal Giblin

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  13. Folklore

    “Seraft is the name applied to the time between the end of Chrismas and the beginning of Lent.”

    CBÉS 0164

    John Hallinan

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  14. Folklore - Ré Mór Fort

    CBÉS 0164

    Thomas Mc Cann

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  15. Folklore

    “The names of the games I played on Christmas day were...”

    CBÉS 0164

    Eamonn Mc Guinness

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  16. Folklore

    “In olden times there were very few doctors.”

    CBÉS 0164

    Eamonn Mullaney

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  17. Folklore

    “My townland is situated in the barony of Tireragh...”

    CBÉS 0164

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  18. Scéal - Cailleach Tamhlaidh

    CBÉS 0164

    Patrick Solden

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