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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. Pisreoga

    CBÉS 0084

    Mrs Kelly, Noreen Keighery

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  2. Pisreoga

    CBÉS 0084

    Christina Ward, Mrs Ward

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  3. Pisreoga

    CBÉS 0084

    Mrs Kelly

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  4. Pisreoga

    CBÉS 0084

    Mrs Scanlon

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  5. Folklore

    CBÉS 0084

    Mrs Kelly

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  6. Pisreoga

    CBÉS 0084

    Mrs Mullooly

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  7. Local Stories

    CBÉS 0084

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    “Did you ever see a half a pigs head with two eyes?”

    CBÉS 0084

    E. Mc Donnell, Mrs Mc Donnell

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  9. Pisreoga

    CBÉS 0084

    Ben Hughes

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    “It is not right to bring a brush from the old house into a new house it is right to leave it in the old house.”

    CBÉS 0084

    Kathleen Lewis

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  11. Pisreoga

    CBÉS 0084

    Francie Moran

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  12. Local Stories

    CBÉS 0084

    E. Mc Donnell

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  13. Hidden Treasures

    CBÉS 0084

    Mary Mullooly

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  14. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0084

    Mary Mullooly

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    “There used to be faction fights in Ballaghlea and when the people were coming home a man would take off his coat and leave it on the road...”

    CBÉS 0084

    Mrs Connolly

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    “One of the real chieftains of Uí Máine became a priest and went to France with James II.”

    CBÉS 0084

    James Brennan

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  17. Pisreoga

    CBÉS 0084

    Josie Mullooly

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  18. Old Rhymes

    CBÉS 0084

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  19. Stories of the Bad Times

    CBÉS 0084

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  20. Paidreacha

    CBÉS 0084

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