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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. Ghost Story

    CBÉS 1083

    Frank Mc Connell, Mary A. Mc Connell

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  2. Ghost Story

    CBÉS 1083

    Frank Mc Connell, Mary A. Mc Connell

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  3. True Story

    “A man [by] the name of McBride in Glenswilly took sick.”

    CBÉS 1083

    Frank Mc Connell, Mary A. Mc Connell

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  4. True Story

    “There was an old woman Betty McAuley lived in Drumbologur; she had a son who was sick, and before he died, she made him promise that he would come back to see her.”

    CBÉS 1083

    Frank Mc Connell, Mary A. Mc Connell

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  5. True Story

    “Orange men arranged to meet at Drumbologue at twelve o'clock, to go out and burn the Catholics out of their homes, and shoot them.”

    CBÉS 1083

    Frank Mc Connell, Mary A. Mc Connell

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  6. Story

    “An Irish man went to Scotland, when he landed there he went for work to the "pit" head.”

    CBÉS 1083

    Frank Mc Connell, Mary A. Mc Connell

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  7. Story

    “There was an old landlord in this country, he had a son a minister.”

    CBÉS 1083

    Frank Mc Connell, Mary A. Mc Connell

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  8. True Story

    “Two girls were very good friends. They promised each other that which ever of them would die first would come back to tell what kind the next world was.”

    CBÉS 1083

    Frank Mc Connell, Mary A. Mc Connell

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  9. Story

    “There was a man coming home from his neighbour's house.”

    CBÉS 1083

    Frank Mc Connell, Mary A. Mc Connell

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