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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. A Local Story

    CBÉS 0184

    Caitlín Ní Dáithí, Mrs Darcy

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  2. Cures - Stye

    CBÉS 0212

    Mary Darcy, Mrs Darcy

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  3. The Care of the Feet

    CBÉS 0242

    Mrs Darcy, Tess Beirne

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  4. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0242

    Mrs Darcy, Tess Beirne

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  5. Old Ruins

    CBÉS 0519

    Alice Darcy, Mrs Darcy

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  6. Traditions of Famine Times

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Darcy

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  7. Faction Fights

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Darcy

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  8. Local Traditions of Historic Personages or Events Since the Coming of the English

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Darcy

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  9. Local Traditions of Famine Period

    “Local traditions of famine period, the sufferings of the people, the numbers who died of the famine in the locality.”

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Darcy

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  10. Faction Fights

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Darcy

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  11. Recollections of Local Hedge-Schools

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Darcy

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    “A young girl from Co. Galway came to St. Augh's well to perform the rounds.”

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Darcy

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  13. (no title)

    “About sixty or seventy years ago there lived in Ryehill, Ballinderry a man nick-named "Johnny the Neighbour.”

    CBÉS 0530

    Mrs Darcy

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  14. Marriage Customs

    “The bride's mother usually used not go to the ceremony in the Church.”

    CBÉS 0534

    Mrs Darcy, Sally Darcy

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  15. Herbs

    CBÉS 0534

    Mrs Darcy, Sally Darcy

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  16. The Old Graveyards

    CBÉS 0534

    Mr Darcy, Mrs Darcy, Sally Darcy

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  17. The Leipreachán

    CBÉS 0534

    Mrs Darcy, Sally Darcy

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  18. Proverbs

    CBÉS 0534

    Denis Darcy, Mrs Darcy

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  19. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0725

    Mrs Darcy, Seán Darcy

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  20. Severe Weather

    CBÉS 0725

    Mrs Darcy, Seán Darcy

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