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Hidden Ulster (ar athláimh) ✓ In Stock

Pádraig Ó Snodaigh. Clodhanna Teo., An Chéad Chló, 1973. Dath an chlúdaigh ídithe agus smál air. Ruachan ar an leathanach teidil agus dorchú ar na leathanaigh ar fad.

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Hidden Ulster (ar athláimh)

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Inventing Irish Folklore / Ó Cadhla ✓ In Stock

English doyen of anthropology E.B. Tylor saw survival passing into revival. The fact that these are fundamentally superstitious categories calls for a reassessment of the keywords of a discipline that must be recentred in its heartland as perhaps the most relevant of all. Folklore’s age of innocence, heralded by the conclusion of an extended period of centenaries, including those of the state, the Folklore of Ireland Society (2027), and the Irish Folklore Commission (2035), is coming to an end. A retrospect of the keywords and worlds of Irish folklore, béaloideas in Irish, is timely and, given their far-reaching ramifications, crucial. This book moves from English to Irish, zero folklore to folklore, Anglophone Irish folklore to béaloideas, back to no folklore again. The lead up to the relatively shallow revolutionary period following the invention of the term is counterbalanced with examples from the deeper time of ancestral inventiveness. While written in English the keynote is that the Irish language life-world, in one way or another, is its main burden or gravitas. There is no avoiding the fact, attested by the monumental archive of the historical commission, that the language of much of the lore and the lore of much of the language are prejudicially partitioned. This is the starting point of a genealogy traced through a remarkable series of chronological coincidences and clashes, in and out of lexicology, etymology, antiquarianism, history, folklore, ethnology, and anthropology, in short the science of life writ large. Ireland is a Gaelic Galápagos, there are few places in the world where the manifold roots of the scientific and cultural revolution go deeper. It epitomizes coloniality worldwide but its exemplarity is sunk deep in a collusive decolonialism aligned with manifest history. From the stone age to the phone age a protohistoric cant for framing the long concatenation of invasive manoeuvres on the island was curated in layers of chronology and chroni

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Inventing Irish Folklore / Ó Cadhla

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Oidhreacht Sheáin Uí Riada - Seán Ó Riada ✓ In Stock
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Oidhreacht Sheáin Uí Riada - Seán Ó Riada

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In Time's Eye (ar athláimh) ✓ In Stock
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In Time's Eye (ar athláimh)

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Seanchas na Féinne ✓ In Stock
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Seanchas na Féinne

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The Great Irish History Book ✓ In Stock
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The Great Irish History Book

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Súil Eile ✓ In Stock
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Súil Eile

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Ag Fás Aníos in Iarthar na nDéise ✓ In Stock
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Ag Fás Aníos in Iarthar na nDéise

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Ten Thousand Saints ✓ In Stock
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Ten Thousand Saints

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Bridie Gallagher: The Girl from Donegal ✓ In Stock
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Bridie Gallagher: The Girl from Donegal

Dublin 6 dublin
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THE LATE ROY MOONEY, DOON, CO. OFFALY ✓ In Stock
Irish Life and Lore

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County Longford Explored : Irish History in the Hidden Heartland ✓ In Stock
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County Longford Explored : Irish History in the Hidden Heartland

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Associational Culture in Ireland and the Wider World ✓ In Stock
Irish Academic Press Ltd

Associational Culture in Ireland and the Wider World

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Pobal na Gaeltachta – A scéal agus a dhán ✓ In Stock
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Pobal na Gaeltachta – A scéal agus a dhán

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Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity ✓ In Stock
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Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity

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Know Your Place : An Exploration of the Place Names of Ireland ✓ In Stock
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Know Your Place : An Exploration of the Place Names of Ireland

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Irish Thatch by Emma Byrne ✓ In Stock
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Irish Thatch by Emma Byrne

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