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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 Story of the Whiteboy Days

    CBÉS 0390

    Laurence Mc Sweeney

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  2. The Hanging at the Cross (where the two dtreets meet in Newtownsandes)

    CBÉS 0405

    Con Shine, Tomás Ó Conaill

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  3. (no title)

    “James Cunningham and Myles Cunningham lived in the same farm house in Kilbaha, now occupied by a man named Kearney.”

    CBÉS 0405

    Edmund Stack

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  4. A True Story

    CBÉS 0405

    Billy Drury, Máire Ní Cheallacháin

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  5. Local Place Names

    “There is a cross about a mile from Listowel at the eastern side.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Batt Scannell

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  6. (no title)

    “On one occasion Blakeney Kitchener had no one living with him but a servant girl.”

    CBÉS 0407

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  7. (no title)

    “There was a very rich man there long ago who had a daughter by the name of Eileen.”

    CBÉS 0407

    Connchubhair O Caoimh, Líam O Coileáin

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  8. Story of The Whiteboys

    CBÉS 0412

    Eileen O' Sullivan, Mrs Slattery

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  9. Na Buachaillí Bána

    CBÉS 0421

    Pádraig Óg Ó Maoileóin, Seamus Ruiséal

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  10. (no title)

    “Long ago there was an old Protestant church in Ballinacourty built by the English.”

    CBÉS 0426

    Thomas J. Kennedy

    Transcript

  11. Gallow Green (Páirc na Croiche)

    CBÉS 0442

    Thomas Healy

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  12. (no title)

    “In the time of the white boys from seventeen ninty eight to eighteen hundred ...”

    CBÉS 0448

    Dan Clifford, Hanna Riordan

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  13. A Story of the Whiteboys

    CBÉS 0451

    Diarmuid Ó Cróinín

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  14. (no title)

    “Three brothers named Healy lived in Meenigishagh near the school.”

    CBÉS 0452

    Ellen Moynihan, Nellie Moynihan

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  15. The White Boys

    CBÉS 0456

    Tadhg Ó Cuanacháin

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  16. Cistí Óir i bhFolach

    CBÉS 0461

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  17. Scéal Grinn

    CBÉS 0461

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  18. Na Buachaillí Bána

    CBÉS 0466

    Seóirse Páiméar, Siobhán Ní Cathasaigh

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  19. Na Buachaillí Bána

    CBÉS 0467

    Muiris Ó Riordáin

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  20. Comharthaí Aimsire

    CBÉS 0471

    Diarmuid Ó Braoin

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