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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. Holly

    CBÉS 0079

    Gertrude Curran, John Curran

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  2. The Holly Tree

    CBÉS 0079

    Honoria Cloonan, Julia Cloonan

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  3. Travelling Folk

    CBÉS 0152

    Holly Walshe

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  4. Homemade Toys

    CBÉS 0152

    Holly Walshe

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  5. Holly

    CBÉS 0233

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  6. (no title)

    “St Stephen's Day - In this district boys and even, sometimes, young men go about from house with a decorated holly bush.”

    CBÉS 0364

    Mr John Murphy

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  7. Weather-Signs

    CBÉS 0395

    Holly Berry, Mr R. Berry

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  8. Birds

    CBÉS 0395

    Holly Berry, Mr R. Berry

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  9. May Eve Customs

    CBÉS 0402

    Patrick Holly, Teresa Holly

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  10. A Local Happening

    CBÉS 0402

    Patrick Holly, Teresa Holly

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  11. Story

    CBÉS 0402

    Patrick Holly, Teresa Holly

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  12. Food in Olden Times

    CBÉS 0402

    Teresa Holly

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  13. Local Place Names

    CBÉS 0402

    Patrick Holly, Teresa Holly

    Aghanagran Upper, Co. Kerry

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  14. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0402

    Patrick Holly, Teresa Holly

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  15. Stories - Folklore

    CBÉS 0403

    Mr Denis Holly, William Holly

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  16. (no title)

    “Strange things happen in some places and sometimes things of great importance.”

    CBÉS 0403

    Paddy Pierce, William Holly

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  17. (no title)

    “One morning William Collins was going to a fair in Listowel”

    CBÉS 0403

    Mr William Collins, William Holly

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  18. (no title)

    “A young man was returning home one night and he saw a football match in the field beside the road.”

    CBÉS 0403

    Dan Mc Grath, Thomas Holly

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  19. (no title)

    “A few years ago in one of the principal colleges of Ireland there was a very holy priest.”

    CBÉS 0403

    Thomas Holly, William Collins

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  20. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0403

    Thomas Egan, William Holly

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