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 0415

    James Houlihan

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  2. A Story

    CBÉS 0449

    Dermot Connor, William Lane

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  3. Béaloideas

    CBÉS 0456

    Tadhg Ua Scannaill

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  4. Folklore

    CBÉS 0460

    Shelia Quirke

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  5. Folklore

    CBÉS 0460

    Shelia Quirke

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    There was a man in Fedamore one time and he could turn ivy leaves into money.

    CBÉS 0507

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  7. (no title)

    Any one that gets money, handy that way, (that is in a "crock", or by the "poor scholar method"), some one in their family suffers.

    CBÉS 0507

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    I heard it more than once that those who want to make themselves invisible, to do any bad work, can do it in this way.

    CBÉS 0507

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  9. (no title)

    Don't have any doubt about it, but you can cure the beast with charms.

    CBÉS 0507

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    A curtain man called in one day to a forge to a smith to put a set of new shoes on his horse, which he did

    CBÉS 0593

    Anna O' Flannagan, Patrick O' Halloran

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  11. Folklore - A Story

    CBÉS 0603

    Margaret Browne, Mrs B. Browne

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  12. Cistí Óir i bhFolach - Leacain na Sionnach

    CBÉS 0604

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  13. Story

    CBÉS 0607

    Christy O' Shea, Mrs M. O' Shea

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  14. A Story

    CBÉS 0607

    Lot Malone, Vincent Walle

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  15. (no title)

    There was a man in the village of Lahinch one time whose name was Tom Clancy.

    CBÉS 0621

    Michael Finucane

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  16. Gabha Rua

    CBÉS 0622

    Johny Lynch, Mary Lynch

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  17. (no title)

    Once upon a time a man lived in Inagh who had a charm for making people dance...

    CBÉS 0625

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    One time when the Hickmans were landlords of Kilmore estate, the whole lot of the surrounding townlands were plagued with rats.

    CBÉS 0629

    Samuel Keane

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  19. Religious Story

    CBÉS 0649

    Maureen Corbett, Patrick Corbett

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  20. It Happened at Cards

    CBÉS 0653

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