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This school songster, a publication of 1922, was directed at older pupils in the national schools. Its songs, which had been published in Breathnach’s earlier works, constitute a core canon of popular songs in the Irish language from the previous two hundred years. Some were known in all the Irish-speaking districts but there is an evident Munster bias here arising from his own musical experiences. The songs would become familiar to Irish children for decades and are even still widely known.
