Irish Folk Ways
Irish Folk Ways

Author: E. Estyn Evans

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 048641440X

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A classic in its field, this charming work by a noted scholar explores traditional Irish customs and activities—from thatching a roof, churning butter, cultivating and harvesting crops, making pots and pans and building furniture to behavior at weddings, wakes, festivals, and funerals. "For all its learning, the book is popular in the best way, and admirably illustrated. . . ."—Times Literary Supplement. (London)

Old Days, Old Ways
Old Days, Old Ways

Author: Olive Sharkey

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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"A book of old bygones - the tools, vessels and gadgets in everyday use"--Introduction.

Of Irish Ways
Of Irish Ways

Author: Mary M. Delaney

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1993-01-31

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0060924217

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A fascinating look at Ireland--its history, traditions, and people. "Reading the book and looking at Rein's drawings are like visiting a part of the world which is still unspoiled and lovely."--Publishers Weekly

Irish Folk Tales
Irish Folk Tales

Author: Henry Glassie

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2012-09-19

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0307828247

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Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of the ancient times and continuing through the arrival of the saints in Ireland in the fifth century, the periods of war and family, the Literary Revival championed by William Butler Yeats, and the contemporary era, these robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic stories of kings, ghosts, fairies, treasures, enchanted nature, and witchcraft are set in cities, villages, fields, and forests from the wild western coast to the modern streets of Dublin and Belfast. Edited by Henry Glassie With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Over Nine Waves
Over Nine Waves

Author: Marie Heaney

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1995-07-13

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 057117518X

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"Journalist Marie Heaney skillfully revives the glory of ancient Irish storytelling in this comprehensive volume from the great pre-Christian sequences to the more recent tales of the three patron saints Patrick, Brigid, and Colmcille."--Publisher's description.

Albion's Seed
Albion's Seed

Author: David Hackett Fischer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1991-03-14

Total Pages: 981

ISBN-13: 019974369X

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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.