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Colm Ó Caodháin
The book and accompanying cd will consist of song, music and lore of the acclaimed Conamara tradition bearer, Colm Ó Caodháin (1893 - 1975) from Glinsce, Carna, County Galway. During the golden era of collecting in the twentieth century, Colm's contribution to collectors in Ireland and abroad is exceptional. In particular, Séamus Ennis during his period with the Irish Folklore Commission and later with Radio Éireann and the BBC continuously returned to Colm as a source. To date, there has never been a publication solely dedicated to Colm and his repertoire.
Going to the Well for Water
A number of entries cast light on his fieldwork methodology, which was meticulous, and his attitude towards his mission, which led him to eschew anything that had been collected frequently or learned from a book. Ennis visited a number of Gaeltachtai and this book sketches a picture of life in Donegal, Mayo, Connemara and West Clare. This collection will have particular relevance not only to those interested in Ennis as an individual, but also to all historians and scholars of Irish traditional music and folklore in the twentieth century. Despite the great entertainment Ennis enjoyed on his working trips, he had to be ever vigilant, constantly on the look out for new material and new contacts from which to elicit information. Ui Ogain captures Ennis' writing style admirably. Accounts of certain events reveal an engaged emotional intensity underscoring Ennis' firm belief that his endeavour was more than a mere job.
Sealbhú an Traidisiúin
This collection of essays in Irish concerns transmission in its widest sense, including poetry and prose texts, music and song, linguistics and oral narrative. It offers the reader particular insights into the concept of tradition in its widest sense as well as into the manner in which tradition is appropriated and refashioned. Published under the title 'Sealbhu an Traidsiuin', it consists of papers first presented at a one-day international conference hosted in University College Dublin in May 2011. Contributors include Rionach ui Ogain, Ciaran O Gealbhain, Meadhbh Nic an Airchinnigh, Roisin Nic Dhonncha, Diarmuid O Giollain, Maire Ni Neachtain, Peadar O Ceannabhain, Lillis O Laoire and Sean O Duinnshleibhe.
Immortal Dan
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Black '47 and Beyond
Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, O Grada concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and demographic features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration.
The Otherworld
Belief in the existence of a parallel world and in otherworldly phenomena has long been established in Irish tradition, and facets of such belief continue to be found in contemporary Irish society. This book, with two accompanying compact discs, examines aspects of the enduring fascination the Irish imagination has with supernatural beings, encounters, and occurrences, as represented in song and music. The material contained in this publication, which includes recorded sound, photographs, and manuscript transcriptions, is drawn from National Folklore Collection/Cnuasach Bhealoideas Eireann at University College Dublin. The book addresses a number of illuminating aspects of popular tradition,...
Binneas at TSiansa
This volume presents an authoritative collection of essays on Irish, Celtic studies, and folklore. Published in honour of Rionach ui Ogain, professor emeritus of Irish folklore and former director of the National Folklore Collection, its contents engage with themes that have characterized her substantial contribution to scholarship both nationally and internationally.
The King with Horse's Ears and Other Irish Folktales
"Experience the magical world of Irish storytelling where many remarkable characters await you: a king with a mysterious secret, brave warriors famous for their strength, a clever leprechaun who outwits humans, and many more"--Front dust jacket flap.
Communicating with the Spirits
Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with the dead, and finally the historical archetypes of this kind of religious manifestation-trance prophecy, divination, and shamanism. Recognized historians and ethnologists analyze the relationship, coexistence and conflicts of popular belief systems, Judeo-Christian mythology and demonology in medieval and modern Europe. The essays address links between rites and beliefs, folklore and literature; the legacy of various pre-Christian mythologies; the syncretic forms of ancient, medieval and modern belief- and rite-systems; "pure" examples from religious-ethnological research outside Europe to elucidate European problems.
Remembering the Year of the French
Delving into the folk history found in Ireland's oral traditions, this work reveals alternate visions of the Irish past and brings into focus the vernacular histories, folk commemorative practices, and negotiations of memory that have gone unnoticed by historians.
