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About This Book
From our homes to our houses of government, from our schoolyards to our stadia, from our galleries to our gable walls, folklore is not only preserved but continues to be reimagined in all aspects of everyday life in Ireland. In the twenty-first century, the traditions of Irish folklore are engaged in a constant process of regeneration, where the old and the new, the oral, the textual and the visual intermingle. However, while the «first life» of Irish folklore has amassed a vast literature, what has attracted less attention is its «second life»: the variety of ways in which traditions have been reused and recycled in other contexts by politicians, poets, visual artists, sportsmen, tourism officers, museum curators, writers and musicians.
This volume is concerned with those moments of cultural creation that occupy the space between the «first life» and «second life» of folklore and, in particular, the ways in which folk traditions are reinvented. Featuring essays from both authorities in the field and emerging voices, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the rich diversity of folk culture, as a practice and as an area of study, in contemporary Ireland.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction (Eamon Byers / Conor Caldwell)
- 1âFolklore: A Zombie Category? (Diarmuid Ă GiollĂĄin)
- 2âLegends and Oral History in Bram Stokerâs The Snakeâs Pass (Manuel Cadeddu)
- 3âHumanizing History: Storytelling and Subjectivity in the Works of Frank Delaney (Anjili Babbar)
- 4âWho Knows Where the Time Goes: Songs of the Past and Stories of the Present in Kate Thompsonâs The New Policeman (Rebecca Long)
- 5âValse Shilly Shally: An Irish Expression of the Viennese Waltz (Maria Byrne)
- 6âMusical Interpretations of Fenian Literature by Contemporary Irish Composers (Angela Horgan Goff)
- 7âRevisiting Samhain: Two Directions on a Theme (DaithĂ Kearney)
- 8 From Page to Stage and Beyond: (Re)imagining CrĂ© na Cille (EilĂs NĂ DhĂșill)
- 9âMother Ireland: Folklore and the Fractured Family in Irish-Themed Cinema (Jack Casey)
- 10âDiscovering and Celebrating Irelandâs Tree Folklore (Ben Simon)
- Notes on Contributors
- Index