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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. Old Crafts - Basket-Making

    CBÉS 0442

    Mrs Roche

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  2. Old Crafts - Mat-Making

    CBÉS 0442

    Mrs Roche

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  3. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0442

    Mrs Roche

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  4. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0442

    Mrs Roche

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    “Once upon a time a little boy was herding cows for his master, and every day he had to take the cows to a mountain farm.”

    CBÉS 0494

    Mrs Roche

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  6. Local Happenings - Burning

    CBÉS 0501

    Mrs Roche, Pat Roche

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  7. Bread

    CBÉS 0501

    Mrs Roche, Philomena Fennell

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  8. Festival Customs

    CBÉS 0510

    Mrs Roche

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  9. Pishogues

    CBÉS 0567D

    Mrs Roche, Nan Roche

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  10. Prayers

    CBÉS 0606

    Eily Roche, Mrs Roche

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  11. A Great Singer

    CBÉS 0655

    Mrs Roche

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  12. Cúram na gCos

    CBÉS 0655

    Mrs Roche

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  13. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0792

    Lillie Gough, Mrs Roche

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  14. Riddles

    “If a nurse washes a child in five minutes what will she dry the child in?”

    CBÉS 0844

    J. Roche, Mrs Roche

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  15. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0844

    John Roche, Mrs Roche

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  16. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0849

    Mrs Roche, Teresa Lalor

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  17. How Dunkitt got its Name

    CBÉS 0849

    Mrs Roche, Teresa Lalor

    Dunkitt, Co. Kilkenny

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  18. An Sí Gaoithe

    CBÉS 0849

    Mrs Roche, Teresa Lalor

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  19. Bread

    CBÉS 0857

    Betty Doyle, Eily Byrne, Kitty Doyle, Mr P. Connely, Mrs Foley, Mrs Roche, Nellie Roche

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  20. '98 - A Story

    CBÉS 0874

    Mrs Roche

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