Life, lore and song / 'Binneas an tSiansa'

Essays in Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin / Aistí in onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin


Kelly Fitzgerald, Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Anne O’Connor, editors

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ISBN: 978-1-84682-810-2
November 2019. 348pp; colour ills.

Saibhriú na cartlainne: liosta taifeadtaí obair pháirce Ríonach uí Ógáin
Anna Bale

‘The landscape of tradition is constantly changing’: five decades of contributions to the understanding of Irish vernacular culture
Kelly Fitzgerald

The visual context of tradition: Ríonach uí Ógáin’s photographic work
Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh

Alma agus Jeremiah Curtin i gConamara
Angela Bourke

An táilliúireacht trí shúile na bprintíseach: dhá chuntas ón naoú haois déag
Síle de Cléir

An Craoibhín Aoibhinn ina bhailitheoir óg béaloidis: fianaise a nótaí I Lámhscríbhinn G 1070, i Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann
Liam Mac Mathúna

Friendship at the core: Ireland, Sweden and the School of Scottish Studies
Margaret A. Mackay

Neilí O’Brien and the Gaelic League
Maureen Murphy

Deascán ó Chorca Dhuibhne agus ó Chairbre i mbailiúchán lámhscríbhinní an Fheiritéaraigh
Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail

Moladh aráin Thaidhg Uí Choileáin
Éamonn Ó hÓgáin

The feast days of the Blessed Virgin: Séamas Mac Cuarta’s forgotten ‘decade’
Seosamh Watson

‘An unique and very curious book’: Irish song manuscript RIA 23 F 22
Nicholas Carolan

Róisín Dubh: athchuairt
Cathal Goan

Mórsheisear scéilíní faoi chúrsaí ceoil
Séamas Ó Catháin

Peannphictiúir: ceathrar banamhránaithe i ndialanna Sheáin Uí Eochaidh
Lillis Ó Laoire

From Ladywell to the Liberties: conversations with Finbar Boyle
Tom Sherlock

A musicscape from the early nineteenth century
Fionnuala Carson Williams

The Emancipator in the mirror of folk narrative: projection and prejudice in an anecdote about Daniel O’Connell
Barbara Hillers

Wise men and little women: 6 January in Irish popular tradition
Bairbre Ní Fhloinn

Pisreoga a bhaineas leis an mbás: superstition and effective human behaviour
Stiofán Ó Cadhla

The colours we wore
Anne O’Dowd

‘Echoes out of the vast silence’? Ancient traditions and folklore
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin

Snátha i seanchas na mallacht
Pádraig Ó Héalaí

‘Joy’s soul lies in the doing’: the pleasure of fieldwork
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Almqvist

The contribution of Séamus Ó Cinnéide to the Schools’ Folklore Collection, 1937–8
William Nolan

Stories my mother told me: collecting folklore from a woman of Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Anne O’Connor

‘What will we be?’ – A spirit of hope distilled
Vincent Woods