1930S School Children's essays.

[Sinann]

The Schools' Collection may feature an essay by one of your relatives.
Searchable by county and school.
Searchable by name using People tab.
Only a few counties unfortunately.

http://duchas.ie/en/cbes/

They are fun to read, often name local people and describe the area.

[dathai]

Sinann
Found the Palmerstown,Co Dublin essays fascinating,i was postman there from 1970 to 1988.
A lot of the names mentioned i probably would have known as adults,house names now swallowed up by the Liffey Valley shopping centre,the Hughes family of Woodfarm opposite the Silver Granite their bungalow now gone also,a good old trip down memory lane.

[Sinann]

I was reading the Clongory Kildare essays, some are by my mother's cousins.
I paticularly liked this bit about local words.
Thawlack......a wrist pain(usually from cutting turf)
I guess we know it today Repetitave Strain Injury.

[dathai]

some fantastic genealogical information can be gleaned from some of the letters
Example
Clondalkin Presentation Convent pages 189 and 190 written by Maura Ryan,Drimnagh Road,Clondalkin.
subject Bluebell Graveyard and others a story related from her Uncle William Farren who was about 34 yrs old in 1937 about the ''Sack em Ups'' or graverobbers a story he had heard from his neighbours some 25 years before.
1911 William aged 8
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Clondalkin/Redcow/41427/