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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. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0158

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  2. Rosses Point - By R G Milne

    CBÉS 0158

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  3. Family Names

    CBÉS 0158

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  4. Old Cures

    CBÉS 0158

    Seamus Gillen

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    “What ever way the wind is blowing on Old Hallow eve night it will blow that way for the next six months to follow.”

    CBÉS 0158

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  6. Stories

    “In olden days when the people would die and be buried the doctors would come and dig up their bodies...”

    CBÉS 0158

    Paddy Bruen, Redmond Bruen

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  7. Story

    “Michael Muldoon, a native of Cregg, was a local horse jockey and ploughman.”

    CBÉS 0158

    Miss A. Burns, Seamus Gillen

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  8. The Disappearing Ass

    CBÉS 0158

    Paddy Bruen, T. Conway

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  9. A Ghost Story

    CBÉS 0158

    Miss A. Burns, Seamus Gillen

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  10. A Ghost Story

    CBÉS 0158

    Paddy Bruen, William Kivelehan

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  11. Mocleslosh

    CBÉS 0158

    J. J. Higgins, Seamus Gillen

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  12. Gallgorm Castle

    CBÉS 0158

    P. Gillen, Paddy Bruen

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  13. Dia Matas Patras

    CBÉS 0158

    Paddy Bruen, Redmond Bruen

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  14. The Death of Two Men

    CBÉS 0158

    Seamus Gillen, Thomas Devaney

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  15. A Ghost Story

    CBÉS 0158

    Miss A. Burns, Paddy Bruen

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  16. Skipping Rhymes

    CBÉS 0158

    May Florence O' Rourke, Rita Gillen

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  17. Skipping Rhymes

    CBÉS 0158

    Mary Gillen, Rita Mc Loughlin

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  18. Skipping Rhymes

    CBÉS 0158

    Mary Gillen, Rita Gillen

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  19. Skipping Rhymes

    CBÉS 0158

    May Florence O' Rourke, Norah Scanlan

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  20. Skipping Rhymes

    CBÉS 0158

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