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Irish customs and beliefs / Kevin Danaher.

By: Danaher, Kevin.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cork : Mercier Press, 2004Description: 126 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781856354424 .Subject(s): Folklore -- Ireland | Ireland -- History, Local | Ireland -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 941.5082
Contents:
Wandering people -- Stand and deliver! -- Spreading the news -- The summer pastures -- Pistols for two -- Captain Moonlight -- The foot of the rainbow -- 'One for sorrow, two for joy' -- Four-footed neighbours -- The cricket's song -- 'Tis a wedge of the elm... -- The hungry grass -- Castles -- Standing stones -- Wee folk, good folk -- Water monsters -- The butter stealers -- Ghosts -- Sunken cities -- Black cat and broomstick.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 941.5082 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 15/03/2024 00149180
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'Irish Customs and Beliefs' is a book of stories and beliefs of all kinds of things to do with old Ireland: highwaymen and travelling people, the Irish whiteboys, lost and hidden treasures. Beliefs associated with birds, insects, animals, plants, bushes, trees and stones, dwarfs and fabulous water monsters, ghosts, witches, castles and drowned cities.

Wandering people -- Stand and deliver! -- Spreading the news -- The summer pastures -- Pistols for two -- Captain Moonlight -- The foot of the rainbow -- 'One for sorrow, two for joy' -- Four-footed neighbours -- The cricket's song -- 'Tis a wedge of the elm... -- The hungry grass -- Castles -- Standing stones -- Wee folk, good folk -- Water monsters -- The butter stealers -- Ghosts -- Sunken cities -- Black cat and broomstick.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kevin Danaher was educated at Mungret College, University College Dublin and at the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig. He lectured on Irish Folklore at University College Dublin. His published work includes 'In Ireland Long Ago', 'Folktales of the Irish Countryside' and 'The Year in Ireland'.

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