The Schools’ Collection

This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information

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    Fadó nuair a bhí na Péin-Dlighthe in Éirinn do bhí na sagairt ag teitheadh os na Sasanaigh san am bhíodar ag tógairt an droichead í nGatharnaig trí míle on Daingean...

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    Seán de Baróid, Seán Ó Máirtín

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    Timcheall an bhliain 1814 do chómhnuig bean darbhainm Loingsigh í gCiullineach. Bhí inghean amháin aice agus fuair sí breóidhte agus bhí sí breoidhte ar feadh tamaill mhaith...

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    Séamus De Baróid, Seán De Baróid

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    Timcheall an bhliain 1840 bhí an gorta in Éirinn. Bhí na daoine bochta ag fághail bháis leis an ocras. Bhí bean i nGairpine abainn Uí Ceallacháin...

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    Máire Ní Bharóid, Seán De Baróid

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    Timcheall aimsir an gorta bhí tigh mór sa Mheall. Tigh Protastúnach ab eadh é. Bhí muinntear an Daingin ag fághail bháis leis an ocras...

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    Séamus de Baróid, Seán De Baróid

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    A man was walking along the Ventry strand when he saw a lovely maiden on the top of a rock. She was singing a song and at the same time she was combing her hair...

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    Séamus De Baróid, Seán De Baróid

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  6. The Black Men

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    Séamus De Baróid, Seán De Baróid

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    One evening as the sun was sinking below the horizon an army of Englishmen came to Dingle. On their way they a woman on the top of Greenmount...

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    Seámus De Baróid, Seán De Baróid

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    One day in midsummer a boy was dying in a little hut in which he was living. The parents of the boy did not find it out untill that night...

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    Seamus De Baróid, Seán De Baróid

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    About eighty years ago a chapel stood where the Lispole chapel stands now. It was left standing by the family who owned it...

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    Pádruig De Baróid, Seán De Baróid

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