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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. Folklore - Great Poets

    CBÉS 0592F

    John Mac Mahon, Peter Mc Mahon

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  2. Folklore - Pastimes

    CBÉS 0592F

    John Mac Mahon, Peter Mac Mahon

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  3. Folklore - Cromlechs

    CBÉS 0592F

    John Mac Mahon, Peter Mac Mahon

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  4. Folklore - An Old Song

    CBÉS 0592F

    John Mac Mahon, Peter Mac Mahon

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  5. Folklore - Selling Horses

    CBÉS 0592F

    John Mac Mahon, Peter Mac Mahon

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  6. Folklore - Great Runners

    CBÉS 0592F

    John Mac Mahon, Peter Mac Mahon

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  7. Folklore - Gold

    CBÉS 0592F

    John Mac Mahon, Peter Mac Mahon

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  8. Folklore - The Famine

    CBÉS 0592F

    John Mac Mahon, Peter Mac Mahon

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  9. Folklore - Churn

    CBÉS 0592F

    John Mac Mahon, Peter Mac Mahon

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  10. Hidden Treasure - Aylroe Hill

    “Three nights in succession a man named Culligan of Shanhea who was in America dreamed that there was gold hidden in Aylroe Hill.”

    CBÉS 0603

    John Mac Mahon, Michael Reidy

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  11. MacNamara's Fort

    CBÉS 0603

    John Mac Mahon, Thomas Normoyle

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  12. O'Dea's Fort

    CBÉS 0603

    John Mac Mahon, Thomas Normoyle

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    “One day a man of the Conways was fishing in Gortglass”

    CBÉS 0603

    John Mac Mahon, Thomas Cunningham

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    “There was once a man and he was sitting by the fire with his wife and children”

    CBÉS 0603

    John Mac Mahon, Thomas Normoyle

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  15. Cill Stuifín

    CBÉS 0622

    Eddie Sharkey, John Mac Mahon

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  16. An Old Story - The Strange Ghost

    CBÉS 1024

    John Mac Mahon

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