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With the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, it was an educational policy of the new government that singing in the national schools should be taught through Irish and that the songs taught should be in the Irish language. These new twopenny Breathnach publications of 1923 were further provision for that policy. Their contents, drawn partly from his earlier songsters but with new additions, were chosen to appeal particularly to younger children.
Amhráin agus ceól ár dtíre féin. Cuid a haon / An tAthair Pádruig Breathnach do chruinnigh
Amhráin agus ceól ár dtíre féin. Cuid a dó / An tAthair Pádruig Breathnach do chruinnigh
