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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. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0522

    Mrs Ellen Hayes

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  2. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0522

    Francis Davis

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  3. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0522

    Mrs Margaret Dillon

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  4. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0522

    Mr John Kemp

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  5. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0522

    Mr Joseph Egan

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  6. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0522

    Mrs Annie Walsh

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  7. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0522

    Patrick Kirby

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  8. A Funny Story

    CBÉS 0522

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  9. A Funny Story

    “There is a funny story told near us.”

    CBÉS 0522

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  10. A Funny Story

    “Once upon a time as a man was cutting sticks in a wood he saw a weasel and he starting teasing him.”

    CBÉS 0522

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  11. A Funny Story

    “There was a man who went off swimming and he saw a woman on the top of a rock.”

    CBÉS 0522

    Thomas Kemp

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    “Once there lived a boy whose name was Peadar and he was very poor.”

    CBÉS 0522

    Mr Joseph Egan

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    “There once lived a woman and her son.”

    CBÉS 0522

    Mrs White

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    “One time there was three bears which used to come to this house where there was no one but an old woman.”

    CBÉS 0522

    Mr T. Rainsford

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  15. A Funny Story

    “From time to time one hears many funny stories, but the funniest one I have heard is one which I heard about two years ago.”

    CBÉS 0522

    Mrs Nicholas

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  16. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0522

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  17. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0522

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  18. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0522

    Miss Katty Egan

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  19. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0522

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  20. Weather-Lore

    CBÉS 0522

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