Margaret Ann Brennan

Travelling Folk in the 1930s

<p>Between 1937 and 1939, primary school pupils across the Republic of Ireland interviewed the elderly in their neighborhood to collect and record local stories and folklore from the 19th century. "The Schools Collection" as it became known is held by the Dúchas Folklore Collection in UCD and is and has been digitized online at duchas.ie. One of the topics schoolchildren were asked to write about were "Travelling Folk" or An Lucht Siúil. </p> <p>Here is a selection of what "settled" children wrote about travelers in the late 1930s.</p>

1938-01-01 12:00:00

1930 All Ireland Senior Gaelic Football Final

1930-09-28 12:00:00

County Monaghan in the 1830s

<p>A snapshot of pre-famine local history, as described in the "Topographical Dictionary of Ireland" by Samuel Lewis, 1837. (Much of the information collected here was submitted by members of the local gentry and clergy of the time).</p>

1837-01-01 12:00:00

Dublin-Monaghan Bombings

1974-05-17 12:00:00

Black 47: State of Destitution around Carrickmacross

<p>In the entire period of the Great Famine in Ireland (1845-1851) the most dramatic population decrease from death and emigration occurred in "Black '47". Board of Works correspondence warned of imminent death from starvation, plague and disease unless drastic measures were taken for the relief of distress in Ireland.</p>

1847-02-20 12:00:00

Black 47: State of Destitution around Carrickmacross

<p>In the entire period of the Great Famine in Ireland (1845-1851) the most dramatic population decrease from death and emigration occurred in "Black '47". Board of Works correspondence warned of imminent death from starvation, plague and disease unless drastic measures were taken for the relief of distress in Ireland.</p>

1847-02-20 12:00:00