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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. An Old Story

    CBÉS 0510

    Mrs Curtis, Teresa Curtis

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  2. An Ancient Way

    CBÉS 0510

    Mrs Curtis, Teresa Curtis

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  3. The Story of a Parrot

    CBÉS 0510

    Mrs Curtis, Teresa Curtis

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  4. A Story about Butter Churning

    CBÉS 0510

    Mrs Curtis, Teresa Curtis

    Transcript

  5. Bird-Lore

    CBÉS 0510

    Mrs Curtis, Teresa Curtis

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  6. Jigginstown Castle

    CBÉS 0510

    Mrs Curtis, Teresa Curtis

    Transcript

  7. The Penal Time

    CBÉS 0510

    Mrs Curtis, Teresa Curtis

    Transcript

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    “On olden times fairies used to frequent the fields, I often heard the old people say, that there was a circus one night...”

    CBÉS 0685

    Mrs Curtis

    Transcript

  9. Local Cures - Mixed Cures

    CBÉS 0773

    Mrs Curtis

    Transcript

  10. Famine Times

    CBÉS 0819

    Mrs Curtis, Patrick Curtis

    Transcript

  11. Local Cures

    CBÉS 0871

    Mrs Curtis, Thomas Curtis

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  12. Denny Byrne the Piper

    CBÉS 0871

    Mrs Curtis, Thomas Curtis

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    “I was atin' me dinner wan day in Ross at Larkin's atin' house that's where Mac Donald's have set up now in Conduit Lane.”

    CBÉS 0882

    Josie Kehoe, Mrs Curtis

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  14. (no title)

    “There was a fella wan time livin' in the Boola, Raheen, an' he used to go round workin' from place to place.”

    CBÉS 0882

    Josie Kehoe, Mrs Curtis

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  15. (no title)

    “Mr Katin the school teacher kept a little shop in Raheen Adamstown and Paddy O Connor and his wife used to dale there...”

    CBÉS 0882

    Josie Kehoe, Mrs Curtis

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  16. (no title)

    “Did you ever hear about the hussian that was killed down here in the Meehan Lane.”

    CBÉS 0882

    Kitty French, Mrs Curtis

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  17. (no title)

    “I suppose you often heard tell o' Ned Hayden of Old Ross, an' all the quare things he used to do.”

    CBÉS 0882

    Kitty French, Mrs Curtis

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  18. (no title)

    “There was to be great fun at the wakes long a go, very different from now praise be to God.”

    CBÉS 0882

    Jocie Crosbie, Mrs Curtis

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  19. A Story

    CBÉS 0882

    Mrs Curtis, Patrick Curtis

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  20. (no title)

    “In the year 1798 two Irish soldiers were going to France to join the Irish Brigade.”

    CBÉS 0899

    Mrs Curtis, Peggie Mc Gee

    Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford

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