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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. Tales of a Grandmother Born 1830

    CBÉS 0461

    Bridget Mc Loughlin, Mrs Johanna Crowley

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  2. A True Experience of the Famine Years

    CBÉS 0461

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  3. The Use of Score Sticks

    CBÉS 0461

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  4. How Starch Was Made From Potatoes

    CBÉS 0461

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  5. Firing

    CBÉS 0461

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  6. Homemade Instrument for Twisting Súgáns

    CBÉS 0461

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  7. Anecdote of Eoghan Rua

    CBÉS 0461

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  8. Altú roimh Bhia

    CBÉS 0461

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    “All the fields etc. on our farm had Irish Names. Here are some of them -”

    CBÉS 0461

    Maighréad Ní Dhonnchadha

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  10. The Claydagh Flood

    CBÉS 0461

    Maighread Ní Dhonnchadha

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    “I and My Husband Were at the Fueral of My Godmother Who Was Buried in Kenmare About Forty or Fifty Years Ago.”

    CBÉS 0461

    Mrs Bridget Mc Carthy, Sr M. Gerard

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  12. Piseoga

    CBÉS 0461

    Máire Bean Uí Thuama

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  13. Seanamhrán Pháid Buí

    “Duine bocht fánach do bheadh é, Ní raibh ag na creabh aige”

    CBÉS 0461

    Maighréad Bean Uí Thuama, Maighréad Ní Thuama

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  14. Nósanna atá ag na Daoine

    CBÉS 0461

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  15. Paidreacha

    CBÉS 0461

    Maighréad Ní Thuama, Seán Ó Tuama

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    “The holdings of the farmers at Castlegregory were small and it became clear after the famine years that the people could not live on as they had managed to do at the time.”

    CBÉS 0461

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  17. Seanscéalta - An tUltach agus an Sugursúnach

    CBÉS 0461

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  18. Dhá Theistiméireacht

    CBÉS 0461

    Maighréad Ní Thuama, Seán Ó Tuama

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  19. Seanscéal

    CBÉS 0461

    Áine M. Nic Chárthaigh, Seán Mac Chárthaigh

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  20. Story Told of a Local Lios

    CBÉS 0461

    Áine M. Nic Chárthaig, Seán Mac Charthaig

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