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	Journal of Folklore Research - Book Notes
		In so doing, he reinforces the place of modern Irish folklore scholarship as part of a European tradition emanating from Ireland's long association with Nordic folklore studies, but he also emphasizes the role played by nationalism and nation-building.
		He does not, however, ignore or exclude American folklore scholars; in particular, he notes the shift in folklore studies in the late 1960s, and he includes the effects of these intellectual movements on folklorists in Ireland.
		The chapter entitled "Irish Pioneers" includes all the usual suspects in Irish folklore studies--including a short description of Northern Irish scholars, who are often omitted from such histories--and leads into a discussion of the Gaelic League's role in situating Irish folklore as something distinct from Anglo traditions.
	iupjournals.org /folklore/book/ogiollain.html (481 words)

	1938 Essays of Irish Folklore Commission
		The essays written for the Folklore Commission in 1938 are available on micro film in the county library in Castlebar.
		In this the Irish Commission drew on the experience of Sweden who were to the fore with the most up-to-date methods of collection.
		Folklore, the study of the folk-mind and the investigation of the world and ways of ordinary people, continues to attract students.
	www.mayoalive.com /MagMay96/Folklore.htm (1128 words)

	Irish Folklore & Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Often the style of the telling is more clear, and there is a greater desire by the authors to entertain than simply to relate the tales.
		In some of the stories, the dialogue is written in Irish dialect, which can make it a bit hard to read.
		There are a few footnotes explaining Irish or slang terms, though, and the cadence of the writing is great.
	www.ils.unc.edu /dpr/path/irishfolklore/childrens.htm (255 words)

	Witch and Priest Juxtaposed:
		The priest is often juxtaposed in Irish folklore with the Devil, commonly in variants of ML 3015, as well as in a wide range of narrative types and beliefs.
		In Irish varients of ML 3015, the Devil is frequently a readily identifiable symbol of the Protestant gentleman, which is to say a member of the oppressing or privileged classes.
		Both are generally assumed to be and both come from Irish, as opposed to English, Protestant, or foreign society, while each remains on the fringes of that society, the priest removed by his lofty spiritual role and the witch by her abjection, and, in the legends discussed, her animality.
	haldjas.folklore.ee /folklore/vol9/nuttall.htm (1905 words)

	UCD News May 1995
		The collections in the Department of Irish Folklore are 'the title deeds of the Irish people' according to Professor Bo Almqvist, head of the department.
		Much of the early folklore in the department's resources is in the Irish language, but later material is in both Irish and English for historical reasons.
		From the academic point of view, Irish Folklore is available as part of both BA and MA, and also on a doctoral level.
	www.ucd.ie /ucdnews/may95/folklore.html (1005 words)

	Irish Folklore
		Another evil sprite was the Clobher-ceann, "a jolly, red-faced, drunken little fellow," always "found astride of a wine-butt" singing and drinking from a full tankard in a hard drinker's cellar, and bound by his appearance to bring its owner to speedy ruin.
		Of monsters the Irish had, and still believe in, the Piast (Latin bestia), a huge dragon or serpent confined to lakes by St. Patrick till the day of judgment, but still occasionally seen in their waters.
		In old Fenian times, namely, the days of Finn and his companion knights, the Piasts, however, roamed the country, devouring men and women and cattle in large numbers, and some of the early heroes are recorded to have been swallowed alive by them and then to have hewed their way out of their entrails.
	www.celticcousins.net /irishiniowa/irishfolklore.htm (2122 words)

	Tuosist.com - Sean O Suilleabhain (Sullivan) - Irish Folklore Archives
		It was at school in Leithead that Seán and the rest of the family first acquired Irish effectively and comprehensively from their father[3] who, as a native speaker of Irish, had himself enjoyed a childhood very rich in folklore, knowing many Fiannaíocht stories by heart before he went to school to learn English.
		The previous Irish government had already, in 1930, established The Irish Folklore Institute which was partly financed by Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Trust.
		The Irish Folklore Commission of 1935 was founded on a much larger scale and with staff and funding to develop its own archive and reference library facilities.
	www.tuosist.com /sosuilleabhain.asp (6306 words)

	Irish Halloween Folklore #2
		Irish folklore records how a plain cross of wood was often put up on the thatched roof inside the front door to ward off evil spirits.
		Ulster folklore chronicles how fairies were believed to be fallen angels and were especially dreaded on Hallowe'en night.
		After Hallowe'en, on All Soul's Day which falls on November 2, some Irish people laid a table with a place for each dead relative and the poker and tongs were placed in the shape of a cross on the heart stone.
	www.clancian-carroll.com /irishhal-2.shtml (797 words)

	Department of Irish Folklore and the Schools' Scheme
		Until the society came into being the whole enterprise of collecting Irish folklore could, according to one commentator, be compared to haphazard diving - "in the process of which some golden coins were found more or less by chance - rather than to anything like a systematic treasure hunt".
		That body was responsible for the collection, preservation, classification, study and exposition of all aspects of Irish folk tradition until 1971 when it was replaced by the Department of Irish Folklore and incorporated into University College Dublin.
		It was devised by Séamus Ó Duilearga and Seán Ó Suilleabháin of the Folklore Commission and carried out in 1937-38 in co-operation with the Department of Education and the Irish National Teachers' Organisation.
	www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/coclare/history/folklore_schools_scheme.htm (432 words)

	Approaching a folklore archive: the Irish Folklore Commission and the memory of the Great Famine Folklore - Find ...
		Using the Irish Folklore Commission's centenary survey of local accounts of the Great Famine (1845-50), this article posits a tripartite taxonomy of collective memory: the "global," the "popular" and the "local." Global memory was structured by meta-narratives, the explanatory accounts of the Famine derived from the Catholic Church and nationalist political organisations.
		The archive of the former Irish Folklore Commission (1935-1971) in Dublin represents the result of one of the largest and most sustained projects of collection of oral narrative.
		The classifications proposed for Irish ethnography by O Suilleabhain in the Commission's own A Handbook of Irish Folklore are not satisfactory either.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2386/is_2_115/ai_n8693730 (833 words)

	Sean O'Suilleabhain (1903-1996) and the Irish folklore commission Western Folklore - Find Articles
		He was one of the foremost scholars of Irish folklore in the twentieth century.
		While still a schoolteacher in Waterford Sean began to collect the folk poetry in the Irish language of his native parish of Tuosist, county Kerry, and it was through this work that he came into contact with Seamus O Duilearga, Honorary Director of the Irish Folklore Commission (1935-71) for the first time.
		Prior to his appointment as archivist of the Irish Folklore Commission, Sean had shown himself to be a first-rate collector with an almost instinctive understanding of the nature and extent of the task which lay ahead.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3732/is_199804/ai_n8805383 (587 words)

	Irish Folklore from Moytura's Irish Bookshop.
		Irish Folklore, traditions and beliefs are covered in this section of books from Moytura's Irish Book Shop, where you can learn about the banshee, fairies, leprechauns and irish superstitions.
		Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forests from the wild Gaelic western coast to the modern streets of Dublin and Belfast.
		Through analysis of folklore sources, a comprehensive picture of the banshee emerges, and the functions of the belief in this remarkable creature of the folk imagination are examined.
	www.moytura.com /irishbooks/folklore1.htm (1069 words)

	Irish mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The three main manuscript sources for Irish mythology are the late 11th/early 12th century Lebor na hUidre which is in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, the early 12th century Book of Leinster in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Rawlinson manuscript B 502 (Rawl.
		Many of the later sources may also have formed part of a propaganda effort designed to create a history for the people of Ireland that could bear comparison with the mythological descent of their British invaders from the founders of Rome that was promulgated by Geoffrey of Monmouth and others.
		It was part of the duty of the medieval Irish bards, or court poets, to record the history of the family and the genealogy of the king they served.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_folklore (2417 words)

	Irish Books - Folklore/Traditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Tradional Irish Wedding by Bridget Haggerty Written by an Irish mother who put on a traditional Irish wedding for her American daughter, this book explores the rich history and lore surrounding the exchange of vows beginning with the practices of ancient Gaelic tribes.
		This classic work on the “Calendar Custom” in Ireland is a beautiful description on how the round of the year, with its cycles of festivals and seasonal work, was observed in the Ireland of yesteryear.
		This sparkling collection of quotes, anecdotes, magical tales and folklore is embellished with original whimsical illustrations that will delight the mind and heart.
	www.irishongrand.com /products/116 (331 words)

	irish folklore
		Banshee or 'Bean-sidhe' is Irish for fairy woman.
		Her wails or keen can be heard in America and England, wherever the true Irish have settled.
		The Blarney Stone is a stone set in the wall of the Blarney Castle tower in the Irish village of Blarney.
	www.jantacc.demon.co.uk /ire3.htm (806 words)

	Irish Pub in the Poconos ~ Siamsa Irish Pub ~ Located in Stroudsburg PA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Siamsa is an authentic Irish pub located in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania in the heart of the Poconos.
		The lower part of the Pub is Designed as the Gaelic Pub which captures the character of the Gaelic people well known for their dedication to merry making, music and craftsmanship through the years.
		Stories from the rich heritage of Irish folklore and mythology are illustrated in delicately painted wall murals, inspired by distinctively Gaelic art forms.
	siamsairishpub.com /History.htm (314 words)

	Irish Mythology from Moytura's Irish Bookshop
		Early Irish Myths and Sagas is a collection of stories revolving around a time in Ireland's history known as the Ulster Cycle.
		From the early exploits of Celtic gods to warriors recalling the wild conquests of their youth, and from the fall of paganism to the escalating influence of modern faith, this volume takes the reader on a rich journey through Ireland's storied past.
		N enthralling anthology of Irish legends and tales of the occult is composed of three classic collections--"The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose", and "Stories of Red Hanrahan"--and reflects Ireland's greatest poet's deep and abiding interest in preserving and celebrating Irish history and culture.
	www.moytura.com /irishbooks/mythology1.htm (1159 words)

	Irish literary renaissance - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Irish literary renaissance late 19th- and early 20th-century movement that aimed at reviving ancient Irish folklore, legends, and traditions in new literary works.
		The movement, also called the Celtic renaissance, was in part the cultural aspect of a political movement that was concerned with self-government for Ireland and discovering a literary past that would be relevant to the struggle for independence.
		Irish Literary Supplement; 3/22/2002; Bertha, Csilla; 1567 words
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-irishlitren.html (370 words)

	Irish Soma
		Irish myths and legends were not written down till the Christian era, and then only by monks who might well have misunderstood or even censored any references to a soma-type substance or cult.
		Folklore can be scoured endlessly to rake up further examples; Wasson's point is that one-eyed one-legged beings are to be decoded as mushrooms, at least in certain contexts.
		The Fomorians, who are connected with the megaliths by folklore, and who survive to play roles as ogres and giants in Irish fairy tales, may have been remnants of the great Atlantic Megalithic peoples, who created the culture of New Grange and Stonehenge long before the Celts arrived in Europe.
	www.hermetic.com /bey/pw-irishsoma.html (5178 words)

	Folklore - Irish Life and Lore Audio CDs and Books
		The Irish Life and Lore recordings are a celebration of Irish Life.
		The Irish Life and Lore series were recently featured on RTE's Nationwide programme.
		On Sunday 30th October, the launch of the Tipperary Collection in the Irish Life and Lore Series of books and recordings, produced by Maurice and Jane O'Keeffe, Tralee, took place at Mount St. Joseph Abbey in Roscrea.
	www.irishlifeandlore.com (700 words)

	Irish Folklore and Mythology in the Nineteenth Centuries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Irish Folklore and Mythology in the Nineteenth Centuries
		Diarmund Ó Giolláin, in his recent book Locating Irish Folklore, dates the birth of the European folklore scholarship to an earlier period (as part of the seventeenth-century intellectual tradition) and stresses the place of Irish studies in this area in the wider European context.
		The Ballads edited by MacCarthy were published in part to demonstrate that the Irish 'could establish for ourselves a distinct and separate existence in the world of letters'.
	www.ganesha-publishing.com /irish/myth.htm (421 words)

	Amazon.com: Irish Food & Folklore (Food & Folklore): Books: Clare Connery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Irish Folklore Books for Sale — We provide a wide variety of books on Celtic culture, music, history and more.
		Her first major book 'In an Irish country kitchen' is an outstanding work tracing the culinary history of Ireland set against the colourful social development of the island.It is Easy to read and beautifully illustrated.If you cannot travel to Ireland then read this book and you'll be transported there.
		'Irish Food and Folklore' is her third Irish book (she has other subjects close to her heart and her other books include a beautiful Salad book now also available in softback, and the very recent 'Vegetable Book').
	www.amazon.com /Irish-Food-Folklore/dp/1571456295 (944 words)

	Irish Wedding Folklore Portrays the Rich Culture and Traditions of Ireland
		Folklore has been defined as the practice of people to verbally convey the traditional beliefs commonly held so that they may pass from one generation to another.
		Irish folklore portrays the rich culture and traditions of Ireland and continues to be handed on through oral interpretations.
		Wearing the ring on the third finger of your left hand with the heart pointing inwards towards your heart means your heart is taken in marriage.
	www.irishcelticjewels.com /wedding_folklore.htm (585 words)

	Celtic Folklore
		Old Irish saga of a voyage to the pagan Celtic otherworld, with parallel English and Gaelic.
		The Second Battle of Mag Tuired (Cath Maige Tuired) This Irish saga, first written down in the ninth Century A.D. is an account of the epic battle between the mythical Tuatha De Danann and Fomoire for Ireland.
		These three books are her retellings of Irish mythology and folklore, and are among the best of the genre.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/celt/index.htm (1320 words)

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		Mission Statement The Irish American Club of Naples was formed to promote the Spirit and Culture of the Irish in America and in Southwest Florida.
		More specifically, we promote the study, preservation and display of Irish folklore, music, art, traditional dance, literature, theatre, crafts, history, genealogy, Gaelic language and sports.
		We are dedicated to aid and assist the struggling artist, writer, musician, performer, and schools and libraries concerned with Irish cultural activities.
	naplesirish.com /index.html (207 words)

	Free Essay Irish Folklore and Superstitions: Leprechaun, Banshee &
		A six page paper which looks at the traditions of Irish folklore, such as the children of Danu, the Sidhe and the sacred thorn, and considers the way in wh...
		The Influence of Folklore on the Irish Culture
		W.B. Yeats: The Importance of Irish Literature and Folklore
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=26409 (970 words)

	Links - traditional irish music instruments.
		Molly Malone- Irish Pub, Wehrdaer Weg 16a, Marburg
		Glór - Irish Music Centre - Glór is a comfortable 485 seat venue in Ennis Co.Clare which celebrates the diversity and vibrancy of Irish Music.
		Irishsongwriters.net was established by a group of music/art/literature lovers who saw the need for a resource that helps Irish songwriters to get a foothold in the burgeoning Irish music industry and beyond.
	www.irish-music.net /LinkIrishMusic.htm (1004 words)

	Mick Moloney's Irish Folklore Tours - About Mick
		He is the author of "Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish American History Through Song" published by Random House in February 2002 with an accompanying CD on Shanachie Records.
		He holds a Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of Pennsylvania.
		He has taught ethnomusicology, folklore and Irish studies courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, and Villanova University and currently teaches in the Irish Studies Program at New York University.
	www.irishfolkloretours.com /biography.html (171 words)

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