Fortunes of the Irish Language

Reference

Corkery, Daniel

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Mercier Press

Banned soon after its first publication in 1942, and the subject of much bitter controversy, this has become a modern Irish classic, promising to make immortal the Tailor and his irrepressible wife, Ansty. The Tailor never travelled further than Scotland, yet the breadth of the world could not contain the wealth of his humour and fantasy. All human life is here - marriages, inquests, matchmaking, wakes - and always the Tailor, his wife and their black cow.

The Tailor And Ansty

Biographies & Memoirs

Eric Cross

Community & Culture

Edited by L.M.Cullen. Pub. Mercier Press, 1976. 127 pages. Series: The Thomas Davis Lectures.

Formation of the Irish Economy

Cullen, L. M.

A history of the so-called "hedge schools" of eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland. These were illegal schools, originally of the Irish language, in the oral curriculum, and later, when it became illegal to educate a Catholic in anything but a Protestant school, in the literate English curriculum.

Hedge Schools of Ireland

Education & Teaching

P.J. Dowling

Schools & Teaching

No Dj, Green lightly faded boards with titles on spine. Very good condition internally.

Jonathan Swift and Contemporary Cork

Goldberg, Gerald Y.

Book of Old Irish Street Ballads: v. 1

Arts & Photography

James N. Editor Healy

Music

pages tanned through age, uncut over sized corner on pages 93-96. Good copy.

Irish Fireside Folk Tales

Kennedy, Patrick

Von Der Schulenberg, Karin Ed

Midnight Court/Cuirt an Mhean-Oiche: A Dual Language Book (English and Irish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Brian Merriman

Poetry

The Second Book of Irish Ghost Stories

Byrne, Patrick F

Mythology & Folk Tales

This book by Kevin Danaher describes how the round of the year, with its cycle of festivals and seasonal work, was observed in the Ireland of yesterday. We follow the rhythm of the year from New Year to Easter, May Day to Harvest and Christmas along the chain of highdays and feastdays, St Brighid's Day, The Borrowed Days, Midsummer, St Swithin's Day, Lunasa, The Pattern Day, Samhain, Martinmas and Christmas. The rich and warm life of Irish folk tradition unfolds, the work of farm and fishing boat - belief and usage - feasting and merrymaking. Picturesque customs are revealed - some forgotten, some forbidden, some still familiar, such as 'the making of St Brighid's cross - marriage divinations - watching the dancing of the sun on a hilltop on Easter morning - going to the Skelligs - cock-throwing - bullbaiting - herring processions - the swimming of the horses on Lunasa - and many others. A multi-coloured tapestry. Kevin Danaher has drawn on a wide variety of sources and on more than thirty years experience of research into Irish folk tradition. Kevin Danaher was educated at Mungret College, at University College, Dublin and at the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig. Having entered the Irish army as a volunteer gunner, he left the army with the rank of Captain to resume his research in Irish rural life and tradition. He is the author of In Ireland Long Ago, Gentle Places and Simple Things, Irish Country People, Folktales of the Irish Countryside, The Pleasant Land of Ireland and has contributed to numerous learned journals in Ireland, Sweden, Germany, Britain and America. He edited The Irish Sword, the journal of the Military History Society of Ireland from 1960 to 1971. He was a lecturer in Irish Folklore at University College, Dublin.

The year in Ireland

Politics & Social Sciences

DANAHER, Kevin

Social Sciences

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