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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. Local Fairs

    CBÉS 0563

    Thomas Kiely

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  2. Fuel

    CBÉS 0563

    Thomas Kiely

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  3. The Local Forge

    CBÉS 0563

    James Fitzgerald

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  4. Farm Animals and How Called

    CBÉS 0563

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  5. Shoemakers

    CBÉS 0563

    Dick Fitzgerald

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  6. Stories of the Holy Family

    CBÉS 0563

    Anna Well

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  7. Stories of the Gobán Saor

    CBÉS 0563

    Thomas Kiely

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  8. Local Stories

    CBÉS 0563

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    “When they were building the Rock of Cashel an enchanted bull used to come every night and knock down what they had built during the day.”

    CBÉS 0563

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    “A smith named Patsey Short who lived at Ballysloe, a village about 2 miles from Glengoogle, was called up late one night by a man to put a shoe on his horse.”

    CBÉS 0563

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    “Before threshing was invented the farmers used to have a man in the barn all the winter threshing the corn, with a flail.”

    CBÉS 0563

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  12. Games

    CBÉS 0563

    Thomas Kiely

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  13. Gold Watch and Chain

    CBÉS 0563

    Thomas Kiely

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  14. Bull in the Pound

    CBÉS 0563

    Thomas Kiely

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    “The Game we like best is Hurling and it is that we nearly always play.”

    CBÉS 0563

    Thomas Kiely

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  16. Games Girls Play - Cat and Mouse, Drop the Hankerchief, Jinny Joe, High Gates, Bedshell

    CBÉS 0563

    Ellen Dineen, Mary Graham, Maureen Rafter

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