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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. Festival Customs - St John's Eve

    CBÉS 0047

    Vincent O' Shaughnessy

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  2. Festival Customs

    “The night of the 23rd of June - "bonfire night" or commonly known in the parish of Kiltartan as "the night of the wisps”

    CBÉS 0047

    Joe Tannian

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  3. Festival Customs - The Twelfth Night

    CBÉS 0047

    Paddy Nolan

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  4. Festival Customs - May Day

    CBÉS 0047

    Patrick Smyth

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  5. Festival Customs - St Stephen's Day

    CBÉS 0047

    Frank Deely

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  6. Festival Customs - Halloween

    CBÉS 0047

    Delia Keely

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  7. Games I Play - In Goes She

    CBÉS 0047

    Tom Nolan

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  8. Games I Play

    CBÉS 0047

    Patrick Nolan

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  9. Games I Play - Colours

    CBÉS 0047

    Delia Keely

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  10. Games I Play - The Ring

    CBÉS 0047

    Patrick Smyth

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  11. Games I Play - Hurley, Burley

    CBÉS 0047

    James Corbett

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  12. Games I Play - Blind Man's Buff

    CBÉS 0047

    Mary O' Loughlin

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  13. Games I Play - The Clucking Hen

    CBÉS 0047

    Mary O' Loughlin

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  14. Local Beliefs

    CBÉS 0047

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  15. Weather-Lore - Signs of Rain

    CBÉS 0047

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  16. Weather-Lore - Stormy Weather

    CBÉS 0047

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  17. Place Names - Páirc Gharbh

    CBÉS 0047

    Mary O' Loughlin

    Coole Demesne, Co. Galway

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  18. Place Names - Poll a' Chapaill

    CBÉS 0047

    Patrick Lynch

    Kiltartan, Co. Galway

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  19. Place Names - Páirc na Marbh

    CBÉS 0047

    Patrick Smyth

    Ballylee, Co. Galway

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  20. Place Names - Poll Tuathail

    CBÉS 0047

    Mr Bernard Cunningham

    Castletown, Co. Galway

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