The Schools’ Collection

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

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  1. Riddles

    CBÉS 1112

    Elizabeth Black

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  2. Riddles

    CBÉS 1112

    Lillie Eakin

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  3. Riddles

    CBÉS 1112

    Doreen Barr

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  4. Riddles

    CBÉS 1112

    Kathleen Dougherty

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  5. Riddles

    CBÉS 1112

    James Lindsay

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  6. Local Proverbs

    CBÉS 1112

    Noel Burrie

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  7. Local Sayings

    CBÉS 1112

    Bertie Clarke

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  8. Recipe for Making Boxty

    CBÉS 1112

    James Black, Mr Thomas Henry Lee

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  9. Local Proverbs

    CBÉS 1112

    Elizabeth Black

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  10. History of Presbyterianism in Buncrana

    CBÉS 1112

    Lillie Eakin

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  11. The Following is the List of the Ministers of Buncrana Church

    CBÉS 1112

    Lillie Eakin

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  12. Story

    CBÉS 1112

    Elizabeth Black, Mr J. Black

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  13. A Story

    CBÉS 1112

    Lillie Eakin, Miss Ferguson

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  14. Story - The Old Man and the Robin

    CBÉS 1112

    Bertie Clarke

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  15. The Story of Friar Hegarty

    CBÉS 1112

    Bertie Clarke, J. Marley

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  16. A Story

    CBÉS 1112

    Doreen Barr, Mrs Dunlop

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  17. (no title)

    At Aughnohoo school in county Tyrone there is a cave it is supposed to have been built by the Danes hundreds of years ago.

    CBÉS 1112

    Kathleen Dougherty, Mrs Dougherty

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    There was an old farmer and he was very poor and he had only one cow.

    CBÉS 1112

    James Black, Mr Black

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  19. The Hunchbacks

    CBÉS 1112

    Mrs Bob Mc Kinley, Thomas Mc Kinley

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  20. (no title)

    On Roddy's farm in the townland of Barra and Larish of Desertegney there is a fairy.

    CBÉS 1112

    Elizabeth Black, Mr William Mc Laughlin

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