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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. Making the Churn

    CBÉS 0606

    John Cleary, William Cleary

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  2. Milk Being Taken

    CBÉS 0606

    John Cleary, William Clery

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  3. Food in Olden Times

    CBÉS 0606

    John Cleary, William Cleary

    Transcript

  4. The Common Herbs and Plants

    CBÉS 0625

    John Cleary

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  5. The Wrecking of the Ship "Leon"

    CBÉS 0625

    James Meehan, John Cleary

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  6. Stories

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

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    “Two young men went to a dance one night.”

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

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    “A crowd of young men went to hunt one day, and it was getting dark when they went to an old castle to dig for a badger.”

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

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    “Well you asked me for a story; here is one.”

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

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    “I was goin up the lane wan night wid the dog.”

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

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  11. '98 Stories

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

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    “Some time before the Battle of Horetown, in the year of seventeen hundred and ninety eight, there was a young insurgent, who wanted to get a horse.”

    CBÉS 0899

    John Cleary, Maureen Cleary

    Horetown, Co. Wexford

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