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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. The Long Black Hand

    CBÉS 0033

    Michael Forde, Peggie Forde

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  2. The Long Black Hand

    CBÉS 0033

    Michael Forde, Peggie Forde

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  3. Killeeneen School

    CBÉS 0033

    Michael Forde, Peggie Forde

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  4. The Roveagh Chapel

    CBÉS 0033

    Michael Forde, Peggie Forde

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  5. The Names of Fields

    CBÉS 0033

    Michael Forde

    Killeeneen More, Co. Galway

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  6. An Old Church

    CBÉS 0033

    Michael Forde

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  7. The Three Sister Churches

    CBÉS 0033

    Michael Forde

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  8. A Story

    CBÉS 0033

    Michael Forde

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  9. A Tree

    CBÉS 0033

    Michael Forde

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  10. Raftery's Funeral

    CBÉS 0033

    Michael Forde

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  11. The Callanan Poets

    CBÉS 0033

    Michael Forde

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  12. A Well

    CBÉS 0033

    Michael Forde

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  13. Penal Times

    CBÉS 0034

    Michael Forde

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  14. An Drochshaol

    “Even in our own district there are many disastrous stories to be heard from the old people who heard them from people who lived during the famine . . .”

    CBÉS 0035

    Mena Fallon, Michael Forde

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  15. Seanscoileanna

    “The following are some of the schools which existed up 'till almost seventy years ago.”

    CBÉS 0035

    Mena Fallon, Michael Forde, Theresa Fallon

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  16. Seanreiligí

    “There are no churchyards in this district that have not been in use . . .”

    CBÉS 0035

    Michael Forde, Teresa Fallon

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  17. Customs at Wakes

    CBÉS 0035

    Mena Fallon, Michael Forde

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  18. Customs at Wakes

    “The following are some of the tricks people used play at wakes . . .”

    CBÉS 0035

    Michael Forde, Teresa Fallon

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  19. (no title)

    “In the time of the Fianna there was a bishop named Dr. Madden . . .”

    CBÉS 0035

    Maureen Forde, Michael Forde

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  20. (no title)

    “There was a blacksmith in Kilchreest . . .”

    CBÉS 0035

    Maureen Forde, Michael Forde

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