The Schools’ Collection

This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information

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  1. Fox and Geese

    CBÉS 0833

    Patrick Quinn

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  2. Town

    CBÉS 0833

    Mary Fingleton

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  3. Shop

    CBÉS 0833

    Mary Fingleton

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  4. Here Comes Sall

    CBÉS 0833

    Teresa Reilly

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  5. The Ghost in the Garden

    CBÉS 0833

    Brigid Farrell

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  6. My Mother Said

    CBÉS 0833

    Una Coleman

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  7. To Disobey

    CBÉS 0833

    Una Coleman

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  8. Thread Thread the Needle

    CBÉS 0833

    Brigid Farrell

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  9. What's Your Trade Today Sir

    CBÉS 0833

    Brigid Phelan

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  10. Riddles

    CBÉS 0833

    John Fitzpatrick

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  11. Riddles

    Riddle - Ink, ank, under the bank...

    CBÉS 0833

    Denis Meehan

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  12. Riddles

    R Up and Down up and down, never touches sky or ground.

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    John Lalor

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  13. Riddles

    Q Forty sheep went out in a gap...

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    Kathleen Phelan

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  14. Riddles

    Q A little round and white house and it is full of meat but it has no doors or windows to let me in to eat?

    CBÉS 0833

    Brigid Farrell

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  15. Riddles

    Q: Ninety (nine tea) cups hanging on a shelf...

    CBÉS 0833

    Margaret Doran

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  16. Riddles

    Q. What is it that people never see?

    CBÉS 0833

    Mary Kate Behan

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  17. Riddles

    Q. Why are the girls so fond of the moon?

    CBÉS 0833

    Patrick Quinn

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  18. Riddles

    Q. The man that made it did not want it...

    CBÉS 0833

    John Gorman

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  19. Riddles

    Q. If a man went out through a gap with a hundred patches on his trousers what time would it be?

    CBÉS 0833

    Una Coleman

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  20. Riddles

    Q. As I went out through a guttery gap I met my uncle Davy...

    CBÉS 0833

    John Dunne

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