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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. Churning

    CBÉS 0415

    John Houlihan, Mrs James Houlihan

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  2. Old Schools

    CBÉS 0415

    John Houlihan

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  3. Local Dances Long Ago

    CBÉS 0415

    James Houlihan, John Houlihan

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  4. Local Heroes

    CBÉS 0415

    John Houlihan, John Pierce, M Mc Kenna, Tom Kerins

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  5. A Local Story Told by Elderly People While Sitting Around the Fire on Winter Nights

    CBÉS 0415

    John Houlihan, Tom Kerins

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  6. An Old Story

    CBÉS 0529

    John Houlihan, Michael Houlihan

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  7. The Holy Wells of Emly Parish

    CBÉS 0580

    John Houlihan, Mr Michael Walsh

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  8. May Eve Customs

    CBÉS 0580

    John Houlihan

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  9. Customs at Wakes at Present Time

    CBÉS 0580

    John Houlihan

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  10. The Swallows

    CBÉS 0580

    John Houlihan

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    “About a hundred years ago there lived in the loaclity an old couple in poverty in a small house”

    CBÉS 0603

    Gerald Griffin, John Houlihan

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    “In the townland of Erribul there lived a man named Michael Houlihan”

    CBÉS 0603

    John Houlihan, Mary Houlihan

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    “About twelve years ago two boys named Thomas Crowley and James Crowley of Slievedooley were coming home from their cúaird one night”

    CBÉS 0603

    John Houlihan, Mary Foley

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  14. Petticoat Loose and the Priest

    CBÉS 0637

    John Houlihan

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  15. Bay Lough

    CBÉS 0637

    John Houlihan, Peg Duggan

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  16. Scéal

    “When Tadhg was on the gallows in Waterford to be hung he asked was there any man from Tour here.”

    CBÉS 0637

    John Duggan, John Houlihan

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  17. Father Fogarty and Ussher Kiely

    CBÉS 0637

    Houlihan, John Houlihan

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  18. A Short History of Portlaw

    CBÉS 0655

    John Houlihan, Michael Heffernan

    Portlaw, Co. Waterford

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