County Laois stories join online Schools Collection

Stories written in the late 1930s by children in more than 70 schools in County Laois have been published on Dúchas.ie, the online platform of the National Folklore Collection.

The Schools Collection is the first major project to be published on the website. The project ran from 1937 to 1939 and involved more than 50,000 schoolchildren from 5,000 schools in the 26 counties of the Irish Free