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Sure as the sunrise: insights into the material culture of Albion Motors from Glasgow Life’s museums and archives collection Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Neil R. Johnson-Symington
Albion Motors Ltd was a large company based in Scotstoun, Glasgow, employing thousands over its nine-decades existence. Much is known about its manufacturing output of cars, lorries, and buses, so ...
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‘Powering ahead - the continuing story of the clydesdale horse’ Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Janice Kirkpatrick Obe
With 32 images, this photo essay tells the story of the rediscovery and rehabilitation of the Clydesdale horse. Some of the very best things languish, hidden in plain sight, waiting to be noticed, ...
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The analysis of colour and pattern in Romanian folk dress: protecting past legacies in an uncertain future Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Özlem Kaya, L. Sinziana Cuciuc Romanescu
Dress may show the characteristics of an era, a country, a community or a person. As in other folk arts, clothing is one of the most vibrant documents of cultures. Since folk clothing, which is a c...
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Food and ethnographies of folk life: applying a theory of food as intangible cultural heritage to Passing the Time in Ballymenone Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Gabrielle Kathleen Machnik-Kekesi
Henry Glassie’s Passing the Time in Ballymenone – Culture and History of an Ulster Community (1982) is a touchstone text in anthropological, folklore, material culture, and ethnographic scholarship...
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Between “conservation” and “reconstruction”: facets of cultural heritage protection in Kosova Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Arsim Canolli, Florina Jerliu
This paper addresses challenges inherent in disputes about the reconstruction of built heritage in Kosova, exploring justifications for approval or denial of permits for reconstruction at archaeolo...
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Holy ghosts: classic tales of the ecclesiastical uncanny Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Francis Young
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Self-collection of folklore by Irish schoolchildren: strategies and outcomes Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Nikita Koptev
The Schools’ Scheme of 1937/8, initiated by the Irish Folklore Commission, was an almost unprecedented experiment. Not only did it contribute to one of the biggest collections of folklore in Europe...
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Working the fabric: Resourcefulness, belonging and island life in Scotland’s Harris Tweed industry Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Sabine Wieber
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Twilight of the godlings: the shadowy beginnings of Britain’s supernatural beings Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 William G. Pooley
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Weaving Europe, crafting the museum: textiles, history and ethnography at the museum of European cultures, Berlin Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Rebecca Unsworth
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Over the cold and barren sands: folk singing and folk memories in a northern Icelandic valley Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Rosemary Power
This paper continues from the two previously published in Folk Life, that concern daily and seasonal life, women’s work and food production and preservation in the northern Icelandic valley of Vatn...
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Dhá Leagan Déag: Léargais Nua ar an Sean-nós, Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Verena Commins
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 62, No. 1, 2024)
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The drowning of ‘Lyonesse’: early legends of land submergence in southwest Britain and geoscience Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Patrick D. Nunn, Rita Compatangelo-Soussignan
Stories about a submerged land named Lyonesse abound in culture traditions of Southwest Britain and plausibly derive from memories of land loss within the Scilly Isles. We review Lyonesse stories, ...
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‘It happens in the best families’: gender and family ideologies in Jordanian family-related proverbs Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Doaa K. Riziq, Hana O. Khalil
This study discusses gender and family-related proverbs in Jordanian Arabic (JA). It employs Hofstede’s dimensions of culture, especially the following: power distance, masculinity-femininity, and ...
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“Incarnations of the spirits:” carnivalesque elements of Igbo children’s ekpo masking performance Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Onyebuchi Nwosu, Bernard E. Orji, Sylvanus E. Oko
This study explores performative features of a children’s masking performance carried out among the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria. Informed by the need to interrogate the cultural dimensions of the ...
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Stars and Ribbons: Winter Wassailing in Wales Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Howard Huws
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 61, No. 2, 2023)
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Holy Ghosts: classic tales of the ecclesiastical uncanny Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Francis Young
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 62, No. 1, 2024)
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Working the fabric: resourcefulness, belonging and island life in Scotland’s Harris tweed industry Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Sabine Wieber
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 62, No. 1, 2024)
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Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, History and Ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Rebecca Unsworth
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 62, No. 1, 2024)
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Twilight of the godlings: the shadowy beginnings of Britain’s supernatural beings Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 William G. Pooley
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 62, No. 1, 2024)
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Traditional architecture in Offaly: history, materials, and furniture 1800 to the present day Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 John Logan
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 61, No. 2, 2023)
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Footmarks: a journey into our restless past Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 David Osborne
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 61, No. 2, 2023)
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Interpreting the Galway Hooker: Ecomuseology, Living heritage and sustainable heritage Management Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Damien Donnellan
This article explores the Galway Hooker’s history, cultural heritage, and interpretive potential as an iconic workboat and fishing vessel rooted in Claddagh, a historical fishing village in Galway ...
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Fantastic changelings: liminality and narrative technique in Irish changeling tales Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Audrey Robitaillié
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 61, No. 1, 2023)
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Recollections of an Icelandic valley: the farming and social cycle Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Rosemary Power
This paper is the second on life in a northern Icelandic valley in the later 1970s, early 1980s, and subsequently. While the first concerned women’s work, food and clothing, this paper focuses on t...
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Plumbers, abolitionists, steeplejacks and window men: the graffiti community of the roof of All Saints Church, Wath Upon Dearne, South Yorkshire Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Shaun Richardson
ABSTRACT The leaded roofs of the nave and south aisle of All Saints Church, Wath Upon Dearne, South Yorkshire, are covered in graffiti dating from between the early-seventeenth and the twentieth centuries. The graffiti, along with other features such as plumbers’ plaques, was the subject of archaeological recording in 2013. This paper discusses the form of the graffiti, and what information it preserves
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St Wilfrid’s church tower graffiti – plumbers’ marks in context Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Nicholas Mansfield
ABSTRACT Renovators of old buildings sometimes discover concealed inscriptions made by past tradesmen. They are a means of communicating with fellow workers and posterity and passing on the traditional culture of the building trade. This article investigates a collection of graffiti created by early nineteenth-century plumbers. It explores how and why these marks were made -in celebration of tradesmen's
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Power and innovation: Lanarkshire agricultural implement and machine makers in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Heather Holmes
ABSTRACT Lanarkshire led in the manufacture of agricultural implements and machines from the late eighteenth century onwards. Helped by natural resources, the early and rapid rise of industrialization and infrastructure, businesses created innovative products that were in demand. This paper investigates the makers of agricultural implements and machines in Lanarkshire, especially outside Glasgow, as
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Dressing up: a history of fancy dress in Britain Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Christine Stevens
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 61, No. 1, 2023)
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Craftworkers in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: making and adapting in an industrial age Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Elaine Edwards
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 61, No. 1, 2023)
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Gillian Bulmer (1935 - 2021) Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Steph Mastoris
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 61, No. 2, 2023)
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The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Patrick Glen
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 61, No. 1, 2023)
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Carry on curating Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Ben Russell
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 61, No. 1, 2023)
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Picturegoers: a critical anthology of eyewitness experiences Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Ian Francis
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 61, No. 1, 2023)
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Crysau’n llawn brychau gerbron / shirts full of stains presented: Welsh rag-wells Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-29 Howard Huws
ABSTRACT Visits to wells to obtain cures for illnesses represent an ancient and widespread practice in Britain and Ireland. The practice of leaving rags, or even whole garments, as tokens of belief or gratitude, or both, is also extensively documented. This paper provides a short summary of the antiquity and distribution of well cults. The distribution in Britain and Ireland is then briefly referenced
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Traditional Food in Cumbria Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 John Baldwin
Published in Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies (Vol. 60, No. 2, 2022)
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Wreckers and crashers: the folklore of an Irish banger racing community Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Paddy Joe Rickard
ABSTRACT Banger racing is an extreme form of car racing, wherein manoeuvres akin to crashing, ramming and spinning are essential features of the races as well as the overall performances. This study is an ethnologic exploration of the emergent folk culture generated by a small banger racing community located in the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. The racing cars, or bangers, are individually constructed
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Farming, festivals, and food cultures among indigenous communities in Telangana, India Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Padmaja Ravula, Kavitha Kasala, Ananya Chakraborty
ABSTRACT Festivals are an integral part of the rich and varied cultures of indigenous communities in India. Festivals are closely linked to an indigenous group’s occupations, such as cultivation, and mark a ritual calendar that directs the dietary behaviour of the community. This paper examines the festivals and food cultures of indigenous groups living in six villages in Telangana, India, using participatory
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History and family memory: the ‘Burning of Cork’ 11 and 12 December 1920 Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Bob Powell
ABSTRACT As in community settings, intangible narrative evidence may exist within a family’s living memory, awaiting a trigger to inspire investigation. During the 2016 SFLS annual conference in Dublin, marking the 1916 Easter Rising, such a catalyst appeared to the author. A replica newspaper, recounting the ‘Burning of Cork’ revived his interest in a story told to him by his father. On the night
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Folk life at 60 Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Lillis Ó Laoire
(2022). Folk life at 60. Folk Life: Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 1-3.
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‘All they do is drink coffee:’ notes on café culture in Prishtina, Kosova Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Arsim Canolli
ABSTRACT Drawing on evidence from participant observation and semi-structured interviews undertaken in the period 2011–2014, this paper explores the social life of café culture in Prishtina, Kosova. It focuses on everyday coffee drinking practices as an embodiment of civility, morality and identity, and provides a view of what constitutes café culture and how social identities are formed and shaped
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An unsung pioneer of folk life studies in Wales: Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, 1863-1940 Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Eurwyn Wiliam
ABSTRACT This paper examines the contribution of an individual known in Wales as one of a number from humble backgrounds who rose to make significant contributions to late-Victorian and early twentieth-century civic society. Daniel Lleufer Thomas’s activity in the field of sociological recording, however, has been little recognized in his own country let alone more widely. His contribution to two Royal
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George B. Thompson 6 August 1925 - 2 August 2021 Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Linda-May Ballard
(2022). George B. Thompson 6 August 1925 - 2 August 2021. Folk Life: Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 93-95.
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Feeding the ravens: clothing, food, women’s work and the recollection of change in northern Iceland, 1976-82 Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-13 Rosemary Power
ABSTRACT This paper concerns rural life in northern Iceland as observed through participation in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some work undertaken subsequently. The paper considers farm life, beliefs and communal music in a monoglot (Icelandic only) society where the memories of people stretched back to the 1890s. The three main characters encountered are Lárus, his wife Pétúrina (Figure 1)
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“Nach te an rud an Ghaeilge?/Isn’t Irish a warm thing?” Learning Irish language and song: an autoethnographic self-reflection Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Seán Mac Corraidh
ABSTRACT As ever more languages fall silent because transmission to children ceases, language revitalization has emerged as a worldwide issue today. A relative dearth of documentation exists about how, at an individual level, revitalization leads to the cultural formation of regular new speakers. Using autoethnographic approaches, this paper provides such a personal language biography. It relates significant
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Colm Ó Caodháin: an Irish singer and his world Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Paul Cowdell
(2022). Colm Ó Caodháin: an Irish singer and his world. Folk Life: Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 82-83.
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The Black Country: A History in 100 Objects, by Malcolm Dick, David J Eveleigh and Janet Sullivan (Eds.), 244 pp., Colour illustrations, Dudley: Black Country Living Museum Publications, 2019, £15.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-1-5272-5183-0. The Power to Change the World: James Watt (1736-1819) – A Life in 50 Objects, by Malcolm Dick and Kate Croft (Eds.), 136 pp., Colour illustrations, Alcester: West Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Felicity McWilliams
(2022). The Black Country: A History in 100 Objects, by Malcolm Dick, David J Eveleigh and Janet Sullivan (Eds.), 244 pp., Colour illustrations, Dudley: Black Country Living Museum Publications, 2019, £15.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-1-5272-5183-0. The Power to Change the World: James Watt (1736-1819) – A Life in 50 Objects, by Malcolm Dick and Kate Croft (Eds.), 136 pp., Colour illustrations, Alcester:
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The hidden history of the smock frock Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Althea Mackenzie
(2022). The hidden history of the smock frock. Folk Life: Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 88-90.
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The tale of “three golden children (ATU 707) in 1937 Donegal Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-05 Lillis Ó Laoire
(2022). The tale of “three golden children (ATU 707) in 1937 Donegal. Folk Life: Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 83-85.
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Unlocking the Love-Lock: The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom, by Ceri Houlbrook, New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2021, £23.95 (Paperback)/£107.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-78920-922-8 Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen, by Sheila M. Young, 208pp. Illus., London: Lexington Books, 2019 £65.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-7936-0386-9 Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-05 George Monger
(2022). Unlocking the Love-Lock: The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom, by Ceri Houlbrook, New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2021, £23.95 (Paperback)/£107.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-78920-922-8 Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland: Blackening the Bride and Decorating the Hen, by Sheila M. Young, 208pp. Illus., London: Lexington Books, 2019 £65.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-7936-0386-9. Folk Life: Vol
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Reimagining Irish food ways for the twenty-first century Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, Lillis Ó Laoire
(2021). Reimagining Irish food ways for the twenty-first century. Folk Life: Vol. 59, Special Issue on Irish Food Ways; Guest Editor: Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, pp. 77-80.
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“Is Irish Stew the only kind of stew we can afford to make, mother?” The history of a recipe Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 Dorothy Cashman, John Farrelly
ABSTRACT This paper traces the social, political and culinary history of Irish stew from what are its earliest iterations through to its inclusion in a recently published collection of Irish recipes. The constituent ingredients are contextualized and the emergence of oral and printed recipes tracked within a theoretical framework that gives equal importance to the political and social contexts that
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‘Gilded Gravel in the Bowl’: Ireland’s cuisine and culinary heritage in the poetry of Seamus Heaney Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 Anke Klitzing
ABSTRACT Seamus Heaney’s poetry is rich in detail about agricultural and food practices in his native Northern Ireland from the 1950s onwards, such as cattle-trading, butter-churning, eel-fishing, blackberry-picking or home-baking. Often studied from an ecocritical perspective, the abundance of agricultural and culinary scenes in Heaney’s work makes a gastrocritical focus on food and foodways suitable
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An investigation into the food related traditions associated with the Christmas period in Rural Ireland Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 Stephanie Byrne, Kathleen Farrell
ABSTRACT The interdisciplinary nature of food studies lends itself to the study of food through many avenues, most notably in this research, through folklore and the oral history transcripts of the Schools’ Collection made by the Irish Folklore Commission in 1937–1938. Folklore can give us an insight into sometimes overlooked features of society and how people’s lives can be studied and highlighted
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An exploratory study of food traditions associated with Imbolg (St. Brigid’s Day) from The Irish Schools’ Folklore Collection Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 Caitríona Nic Philibín, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire
ABSTRACT This study explores the food traditions of Imbolg or St. Brigid’s Day (1st February), one of the quarter days of the Irish calendar year, which heralds the awakening of spring. Imbolg is comparable to Christmas eve, in that celebratory potato dishes such as colcannon or ‘poundies’ and boxty are consumed. Throughout the Schools’ Collection (6,000 copybooks filled with folklore collected by
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Exploring evidence of lost and forgotten Irish food traditions in Irish cookbooks 1980-2015 Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 Diarmaid Murphy
ABSTRACT A study by the Irish Food Board, Bord Bia, in 2008 outlined some lost and forgotten food traditions in Ireland based on the evidence from a pre-selected expert group. This paper explores the inclusion of traditional Irish foods within seventy-nine Irish cookbooks, published between 1980 to 2015. Extant academic and grey literature on food traditions and cookbooks, together with the content
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How Irish food criticism reflected and helped shape a changing nation, 1988-2008 Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 Diarmuid Cawley, Claire O’ Mahony
ABSTRACT The perception and practice of eating out are linked to larger socioeconomic patterns. Newspaper restaurant reviews provide evidence of these trends which can be traced along a specific timeline. The early 1980s in Ireland were a difficult time for restaurants due to high taxes on food, a national recession and a lack of positive restaurant reviews. The economic upturn in the following decade
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Farming in Cumbria: the Tullie house collection Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-09-04 David Viner
(2021). Farming in Cumbria: the Tullie house collection. Folk Life: Vol. 59, Special Issue on Irish Food Ways; Guest Editor: Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, pp. 202-203.
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Basketry & Beyond: Constructing Cultures Folk Life (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2021-08-23 Greta Bertram
(2021). Basketry & Beyond: Constructing Cultures. Folk Life: Vol. 59, Special Issue on Irish Food Ways; Guest Editor: Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, pp. 203-206.