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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. Severe Weather

    CBÉS 1109

    Sarah Canning

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  2. Severe Weather

    “1894 On 22nd December 1894 there was a great storm of wind.”

    CBÉS 1109

    Miss Lizzie Ferris

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  3. A Quern

    CBÉS 1109

    Mr Foster

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  4. Bread

    CBÉS 1109

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  5. Grid-Iron for Baking Oatcake

    CBÉS 1109

    Joan Peoples

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  6. Local Heroes - The Giant's Throw

    CBÉS 1109

    Annie Quigley

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  7. Bread - Boxty Bread

    CBÉS 1109

    Mrs Speers

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  8. Boxty Bread

    CBÉS 1109

    Miss Sarah Canning

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  9. Bread - Oatmeal Fadge or Oaten Fadge

    CBÉS 1109

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  10. Farm Implements Used before the Introduction of Machinery

    CBÉS 1109

    Sam Moore

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  11. Farm Implements in Harvesting

    CBÉS 1109

    Sam Moore

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  12. Food in Olden Times

    CBÉS 1109

    Joan Peoples

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  13. Food in Olden Times

    CBÉS 1109

    Annie Quigley

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    “An old age pensioner Mr John Roulston of Rookery, Bonemaine, Bridge End, Co Donegal, now 76 years of age, remembers the time when the tea was so scarce that his parents (the old people) only got it at stated times (ie at Christmas, Easter, or on some spec”

    CBÉS 1109

    Mrs Canning

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  15. Care of Farm Animals

    CBÉS 1109

    Willie Beattie

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  16. Local Happenings - The Ship Tayleur

    CBÉS 1109

    Miss Magill

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  17. Local Happenings - Shipwrecks

    CBÉS 1109

    Mr James Mc Bride

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  18. The Old Graveyards

    CBÉS 1109

    A. Davison, Mrs E. Fleck

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  19. Rachel's Fate

    CBÉS 1109

    Annie Quigley, David Herbison

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  20. The Yarrow

    CBÉS 1109

    Annie Davison, Sarah Robinson

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