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- Charting the Folklore of Ireland
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- Gregory: A Book Of Saints And Wonders
Digital Books | Galway County Library
- Gregory: Cuchulain Of Muirthemne
History & Heritage | Galway County Library
- Gregory: Gods And Fighting Men
Digital Books | Galway County Library
- Joynt: The Golden Legends Of The Gael
Digital Books | Dublin City Public Libraries
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Cork gets its name from the marsh on which the city is built.
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With the foundation of The Folklore of Ireland Society (An Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann) in 1927, the idea of the scientific collection, preservation, indexing and publication of the folklore of Ireland , in all its richness, variety and imaginative intensity, gained momentum.
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An illustration of the game of hopscotch
Illustration of the game of hopscotch in a copy book
Copyright of the National Folklore Collection
Old Irish farmhouse
This farm in Donegal uses traditional means of transportation by a basket used as a pania on the back of a donkey. Front left shows a spade for cutting turf, and further to the right is a churn for butter.
Venacular cottage near Laragh, Co. Wicklow
The ruins of a venacular cottage near Laragh, Co. Wicklow
Copyright Peter McGuire
A bride with a 'Straw Boy'
A bride dancing with a 'Straw Boy' at her wedding
Courtesy of the National Folklore Collection
'Straw Boys' at a wedding
Old Irish tradition of 'Straw Boys' at a wedding
Courtesy of the National Folklore Collection
Wren boys at Sandymount Green, Dublin
A group of wren boys visiting local houses on St. Stevens day in Sandymount Green, Dublin.
Copyright of The Irish Times
The wren boys
Traditionally, the wren boys would go around to the local houses on St. Steven's day, singing songs and collecting for a party.
Courtesy of the National Folklore Collection
Red fox
The sighting of a fox might be an indication of an imminent death.
Copyright Mike Brown
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- O'Grady, Standish, The Coming of Cuculain, Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1894
O'Grady, Standish, The Coming of Cuculain, Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1894
O'Grady, Standish, The Coming of Cuculain, Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1894
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- Yeats, W.B., Poems, London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd
Yeats, W.B., Poems, London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd
Poems by the Anglo-Irish poet, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) dedicated to his muse Maud Gonne contains revisions of some his most famous works, plays and poems such as The Wanderings of Usheen, The Countess Cathleen, The Rose and The Land of Heart's Desire.
Dublin City Public Libraries
- Yeats, W. B. Yeats, Early Poems And Stories, London: MacMillan And Co., 1925
Yeats, W. B. Yeats, Early Poems And Stories, London: MacMillan And Co., 1925
Early Poems And Stories by William Butler Yeats published 1925 contains a collection of poems and stories from the late 1880s and early 1890s.
Digital Books | Dublin City Public Libraries
- Ancient Cures, Charms and Usages of Ireland
Ancient Cures, Charms and Usages of Ireland
Ancient Cures, Charms and Usages of Ireland: contributions to Irish lore by Lady Wilde, author of "Ancient Legends of Ireland," "Driftwood from Scandinavia," etc. London: Ward and Downey, 12, York Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 1890.
History & Heritage | Other
- Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, by T. Crofton Croker, Esq. A new and complete edition by T. Wright, Esq. M.A., F.S.A., etc. With illustrations by Maclise and Green.
Digital Books | Other
- Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts
Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts
Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, collected and narrated by Patrick Kennedy. London: MacMillan and Co. and New York, 1891.
History & Heritage | An Chomhairle Leabharlanna
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