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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. Riddles

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    Kitty Culligan

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  2. Riddles

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    Mary Carmody

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  3. Riddles

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    Bridget Browne

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  4. The Mermaid of the Sea

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    Mary Ellen Brown

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    “There is not much blackthorn growing around this district, because the old belief about it was, that who ever would set it,”

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    Bridget Browne, Martin Meade

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    “Once upon a time there lived three boys and their three mother.”

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    John Flanagan, Tess Flanagan

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    “About a hundred years ago a man in Querrin below Kilkee fell sick and was in danger of death.”

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    Margaret O' Dea

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    “In the penal days when priests could not say Mass in the churches it was necessary for them to say Mass in the open.”

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    John Mc Inerney, Mary Clancy

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    “Knockerra N.S. opened on the 1st January 1839.”

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    Mary Clancy, Mr James Finucane

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    “St. Senan was coming out from Scattery Island one day after saying mass and he forgot his mass book,”

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    David Browne

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    “A man lived in Knockerra named Dan Troy.”

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    Kitty Cunningham

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  12. Paidreacha

    “My old nurse, Mrs Mary Walshe, used to say her prayers in Irish.”

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    Eibhlín Ní Cholgáin

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    “An old man named Paddy Noonan lived in Coolminga.”

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    Mrs E. Culligan

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    “The first motor cars came to Kilkee on the 15th August 1901.”

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    Ellen Culligan

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  15. A Changeling Story

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    Mai Power, Mrs Tim Nolan

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  16. A Changeling Story

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    E. Culligan

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    “An old man named Tady Clancy lived in this parish about fifty years ago.”

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    Ellen Culligan

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    “There lived in the west of Co Clare a man named Hedderman who had a great stutter.”

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    Kitty Cunningham, Thomas Mulqueen

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  19. An Improvised Oil Lamp

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    Ellen Culligan

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    “Mushrooms when gathered and cooked by grilling over red-hot griosach had a lovely taste.”

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    Ellen Culligan

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