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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. Local Place Names

    CBÉS 0289

    Patrick Moynihan

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  2. The Famine Times

    CBÉS 0323

    Ned Riordan, Patrick Moynihan

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  3. Cures

    CBÉS 0343

    Patrick Moynihan

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  4. A Collection of Prayers

    CBÉS 0343

    Patrick Moynihan

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  5. Churning

    CBÉS 0343

    Patrick Moynihan

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    “There is an old fort in Tom Daly's land near our farm.”

    CBÉS 0452

    Patrick Moynihan

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  7. Scéal: Petticoat Loose and the Priest

    CBÉS 0637

    George Mc Grath, Patrick Moynihan

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  8. Petticoat Loose

    CBÉS 0637

    Patrick Moynihan

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  9. Stair - An Seanséipéal

    CBÉS 0637

    Jack English, Patrick Moynihan

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  10. Scéal

    “There lived in Melleray a boy named Paddy Brien. He had a very bad habit of going to the neighbours' houses and staying there until very late.”

    CBÉS 0637

    Patrick Moynihan

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  11. (no title)

    “Old Sir John Keane's tenants were employed to beat the bushes while he used be hunting . . .”

    CBÉS 0637

    Patrick Moynihan

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  12. Leigheasanna

    CBÉS 0637

    Patrick Moynihan

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  13. Scéal

    “One night a party of men were playing cards in a neighbour's house. The night slipped on them and at 12 o'clock they decided to go home.”

    CBÉS 0637

    Patrick Moynihan

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  14. Ellis the Murderer

    CBÉS 0637

    Patrick Moynihan

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  15. Scéal

    “There lived near Lismore a poor woman Mrs Foley. One night she was up late sewing and three women who had been dead fours years came in and sat down at the fire.”

    CBÉS 0637

    John Moynihan, Patrick Moynihan

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  16. West Waterford Factions - The Barrons and the O'Mearas

    CBÉS 0637

    Patrick Moynihan

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