Mark MaguireApr 16, 2024
Lucy McKenna’s High Strangeness open now in Cabra Library. Here’s a video piece based on her research in the UCD Folklore collection of School children from the 1930s. Check out the manuscripts and transcripts here:
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/volumes
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Volumes · The Schools' Collection

This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s.

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alida62Nov 9, 2022
#FairyForts What do people think? https://twitter.com/johngodwyer1/status/1590005772242817024?s=12&t=ogDkfKhlAtZ9Xp40zNOouQ
John G O'Dwyer on Twitter

“Took some of my students on a heritage trip recently and showed them a fairy fort. Asked if they believed in fairies. Everyone said no. Then asked if somebody would break off a branch from a tree in the fort. One guy replied. Do you think we're stupid or something?”

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