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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. The Fairy Man

    CBÉS 0986

    Cathal Ó Ragallagih

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  2. Hidden Treasure in Cornamuckla

    CBÉS 0986

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  3. Cornamuckla

    CBÉS 0986

    Philip O' Reilly

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  4. Blind Berney Reilly The Fiddler

    CBÉS 0986

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  5. The Carman of Bruice

    CBÉS 0986

    Peadar Ó Caráin

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  6. (no title)

    “Very often especially in the summer...”

    CBÉS 0986

    Peadar Ó Caráin

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  7. Margaret Sweeney's Hedge-School

    CBÉS 0986

    John Brady, Monica Shiel

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  8. The Clann McKiernan

    CBÉS 0986

    Scrabby, Co. Cavan

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  9. The Ruined Mill

    CBÉS 0986

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  10. Lone Bush

    CBÉS 0986

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  11. (no title)

    “100 years ago Scrabby had a famous horsefair on the 11th December.”

    CBÉS 0986

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  12. Mountain Dew

    CBÉS 0986

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  13. Drinking Song - Poteen

    CBÉS 0986

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  14. (no title)

    “Johnny Foley the dancing master was born in Scrabby, went to Belfast and learned the trade...”

    CBÉS 0986

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  15. Song

    “One night of late I chanced to stray”

    CBÉS 0986

    Mary Philipine Phildy Reilly

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  16. (no title)

    “There is a step called the Salmon's leap...”

    CBÉS 0986

    Paddy Dermody

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  17. Story

    CBÉS 0986

    Kathleen O' Reily, Mr Dan O' Neill

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  18. Yale of a Dog

    CBÉS 0986

    Caitlín Ní Raghallaigh, Dan O' Neill

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  19. (no title)

    “At the beginning of the 19th century Scrabby in the banks of Lough Gowna was some times referred to as the fishing village.”

    CBÉS 0986

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  20. (no title)

    “Andy the point - Andy Reilly lived beside Lough Gowna at a point of land that stretches out in the lake...”

    CBÉS 0986

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