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 Heroes

    CBÉS 0053

    Annie Cullen, John Costelloe, Laurence Broderick, May Quirke, Michael Leahy, Teresas Broderick, Thomas Cullen, William Costelloe

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    A man who has licked three lizards three times is supposed to cure a burn by licking it.

    CBÉS 0053

    Annie Cullen, Thomas Cullen

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  3. The Care of the Feet

    CBÉS 0053

    Annie Cullen, Thomas Cullen

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  4. Bread

    CBÉS 0053

    Annie Cullen, Martin Forde

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  5. Riddles

    CBÉS 0053

    Annie Cullen, Thomas Cullen

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  6. Industries

    CBÉS 0057

    M. Cullen, W. F. Savage

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  7. Industries

    CBÉS 0057

    Mrs Cullen, Mrs Molloy, W. F. Savage

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    There once lived in Roundfield a poor girl and her father was dead...

    CBÉS 0079

    Joe Cullen, Mrs Daly

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    It is an old custom when a woman would be setting eggs to make the sign of the cross on the eggs with a burned stick...

    CBÉS 0079

    Annie Burke, Joe Cullen, Julia Dolan, Mrs Daly, Vincent Hoban

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    About seventy years ago there lived an old man in a small hut ...

    CBÉS 0159

    Áine Ní Chuileáin, Mrs Cullen

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  11. Hudden and Duddon and Daniel O'Leary

    CBÉS 0159

    Annie Cullen, Mrs Cullen

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  12. Scéal

    CBÉS 0159

    Annie Cullen, Mrs Cullen

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  13. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0159

    Annie Cullen

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  14. Tales of the Famine Times

    CBÉS 0159

    Annie Cullen, Mrs Cullen

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  15. Scéal

    CBÉS 0159

    Annie Cullen, Mrs Cullen

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  16. Scéal

    CBÉS 0159

    Annie Cullen, Mrs Cullen

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  17. Scéal

    CBÉS 0159

    Annie Cullen, Mrs Cullen

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  18. Scéal

    CBÉS 0159

    Annie Cullen, Mrs Cullen

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  19. Scéal

    CBÉS 0159

    Annie Cullen, Mrs Cullen

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  20. A Fairy Story

    CBÉS 0159

    Annie Cullen, Mrs Cullen

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