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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. Cloth Made Locally

    CBÉS 0140

    Mrs Corcoran, Paddy Corcoran

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  2. The Local Saint

    CBÉS 0140

    Mrs Corcoran, Paddy Corcoran

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  3. Stories of the Holy Family

    CBÉS 0140

    Mrs Corcoran, Paddy Corcoran

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  4. Food in Olden Times

    CBÉS 0185

    Eilís Ní Corcoráin, Mrs Corcoran

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  5. Easter Sunday

    CBÉS 0259

    Ellie A. Corcoran, Mrs Corcoran

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  6. Strange Animals

    CBÉS 0259

    Eileen Corcoran, Mrs Corcoran

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  7. Travelling Folk

    CBÉS 0340

    Mrs Corcoran

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  8. Proverbs

    CBÉS 0340

    Mrs Corcoran

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  9. Folklore - Feet

    CBÉS 0340

    Mrs Corcoran

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    “One night a boy named Jack Scott was coming home from town and it was twelve o'clock the dead hour of the night.”

    CBÉS 0460

    Maureen Corcoran, Mrs Corcoran

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  11. A Bedtime Prayer

    CBÉS 0680

    Mrs Corcoran, Nora Corcoran

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    “One day a priest was saying Mass on a hill side in Carrig about four miles from Nenagh, when suddenly a crowd of soldiers came along and killed him and all the people who were hearing Mass.”

    CBÉS 0680

    Mrs Corcoran, Nora Corcoran

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  13. A Ghost Story

    CBÉS 0680

    Mrs Corcoran, Nora Corcoran

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  14. Churning

    CBÉS 0687

    Mrs Corcoran

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  15. An Old Fenian Tale

    CBÉS 0687

    Mrs Corcoran

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  16. The Cholera

    CBÉS 0766

    Janie Corcoran, Mrs Corcoran

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  17. Hedge-Schools

    CBÉS 0766

    Janie Corcoran, Mrs Corcoran

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  18. The Two-Storey Thatched House

    CBÉS 0766

    Janie Corcoran, Mrs Corcoran

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  19. Names of Fields

    CBÉS 0766

    Janie Corcoran, Mrs Corcoran

    Moyne, Co. Longford

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  20. A Cross-Road Dance

    CBÉS 0766

    Janie Corcoran, Mrs Corcoran

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