Conamara Chronicles : Tales from Iorras Aithneach /

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"I find him to be a kindred spirit, a sympathetic but shrewd enquirer, a companionable stroller, and a lover of anecdotes gathered by the wayside." So Tim Robinson described folklorist, revolutionary, and district justice Seán Mac Giollarnáth, whose 1941 book Annála Beaga ó Iorras Ait...

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Other Authors: Mac Giollarnáth, Seán, 1880-1970 (Compiler), Robinson, Tim, 1935-2020 (Translator), Mac Con Iomaire, Liam (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Irish
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ireland > Connemara.
Connemara (Ireland) > Folklore.
Folklore.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A personal note / Tim Robinson
  • Acknowledgments
  • Nomenclature
  • Reading this volume
  • Prologue : space, time, and Connemara / Tim Robinson
  • Conamara chronicles : an introductory note / Liam Mac Con Iomaire
  • The holy men and the islands
  • Troubled times
  • The year of the French (1798)
  • The Tories/vigilantes
  • Big men
  • Robbers and treasures
  • Smugglers
  • Poor scholars
  • Priests
  • People and places
  • Boatmen and timber
  • Food
  • Wisps of straw
  • Custodians of traditional lore and storytellers
  • Meet the storytellers / Liam Mac Con Iomaire
  • Bibliography
  • Maps
  • Author biographies
  • Placename index.

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