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Mayo stories of devils, drunks and princes on new Irish folklore website

Professor Peter Clinch, UCD Vice-President for Innovation; Dinny McGinley TD, Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht; An tOllamh Ríonach uí Ógáin, UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics and the Director of the National Folklore Collection at UCD; Dr Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, Head of School at Fiontar, DCU, at the launch of the Dúchas.ie in Dublin. Photo: Nick Bradshaw
Professor Peter Clinch, UCD Vice-President for Innovation; Dinny McGinley TD, Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht; An tOllamh Ríonach uí Ógáin, UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics and the Director of the National Folklore Collection at UCD; Dr Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, Head of School at Fiontar, DCU, at the launch of the Dúchas.ie in Dublin. Photo: Nick Bradshaw

In 1937, the Irish Folklore Commission, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation, initiated a revolutionary scheme in which schoolchildren were encouraged to collect and document folklore and local history.