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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. Scéal

    CBÉS 0298

    Diarmuid Ó Brian

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  2. The Haunted Cat

    CBÉS 0320

    Brighidh Bhreathnach, Séamus Breathnach

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  3. An Cat agus an Piscín

    CBÉS 0331

    Seán Ó hAtháin, Siobhán Ní Thuama

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  4. (no title)

    “One evening as a man was going home from the village of Doneraile he met three cats between Brough and Newtown and he met several batches of cats on the wood road.”

    CBÉS 0374

    Master J. Murphy

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  5. Scéalta - Ó Daigneán agus na Cait

    CBÉS 0382

    Eibhlín Ní Fuartháin, Liam Ó Leighinn

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  6. Story

    CBÉS 0386

    Paul Peter Leahy

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    “Long ago there lived a poor farmer and his name was John Galvin.”

    CBÉS 0406

    Mary Walsh, Tom Sullivan

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  8. Bóthar na gCat

    CBÉS 0407

    Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin

    Lyracrumpane, Co. Kerry

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  9. Story

    CBÉS 0460

    Willie Hickey

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  10. Rí na gCat

    CBÉS 0461

    Mrs Con Horgan

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  11. Scéal Iontach Cait

    CBÉS 0466

    Seán Ó Cathbhuaidh

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  12. Story of Ballymalis Castle

    CBÉS 0471

    Margaret Doyle, Mrs Doyle

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  13. Funny Stories

    CBÉS 0488

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  14. A Story - A Cat

    CBÉS 0499

    John Dermott, John O' Brien

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    “Another time a man was going to a fair to sell some pigs and it very late wen he was coming home.”

    CBÉS 0531

    Áine Ní Cinnéidigh, Thomas Kennedy

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  16. Some Old Story of Some Happening Long Ago

    CBÉS 0580

    Daniel Murphy

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  17. The Man and the Black Cat

    CBÉS 0585

    Mrs Noonan, Nellie Noonan

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  18. A Funny Story

    CBÉS 0607

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  19. Moll Ró

    CBÉS 0611

    Áine Ní Fhlanagáin, Liam Ó Fhlanagáin

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  20. A Story

    CBÉS 0622

    Cornelius Killeen, Paddy Malone

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