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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. List of Irish Words and Phrases

    CBÉS 0530

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  2. Local Traditions Regarding Danes

    CBÉS 0530

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  3. Ruling Family or Clan in the District

    CBÉS 0530

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  4. Local Traditions of Historic Personages

    CBÉS 0530

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  5. Songs on Brennan

    CBÉS 0530

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  6. Another Version (Songs on Brennan)

    CBÉS 0530

    John Heenan

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  7. (no title)

    “About the time of the 1798 Rising there lived in Limerick a bacon merchant named Maher.”

    CBÉS 0530

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  8. Terries

    CBÉS 0530

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  9. Rapparee

    CBÉS 0530

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  10. Penal Days

    CBÉS 0530

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  11. Terries

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Hogan

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  12. Terries

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Carroll

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  13. Terries

    CBÉS 0530

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  14. Penal Days

    CBÉS 0530

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    “Father Fitzgerald was succeeded by Father Kennedy as parish priest in Terryglass.”

    CBÉS 0530

    Brigid Parkinson

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  16. Traditions of Famine Times

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Darcy

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    “During black '47 many people died of famine and fever.”

    CBÉS 0530

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    “The poorest of the inhabitants - the labourers depending on their day's wages for food - were the first to fall victims to the hunger.”

    CBÉS 0530

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    “B. Hough knew that a family living near him were suffering from the hunger, but pride kept their wants hidden.”

    CBÉS 0530

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    “Billy Hough was asked once if he ever felt the hunger of those days.”

    CBÉS 0530

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