Life, lore and song / 'Binneas an tSiansa'
Essays in Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin / Aistí in onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin
Kelly Fitzgerald, Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Anne O’Connor, editors
In Life, lore and song: essays in Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin / 'Binneas an tSiansa': Aistí in onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin, twenty-seven contributors offer a variety of scholarly and personal tributes to Ríonach uí Ógáin, professor emeritus of Irish Folklore and former director of the National Folklore Collection.
The book engages with themes that have characterized her substantial contribution to scholarship both nationally and internationally, exploring topics such as the historical connections between traditional archives in Ireland, Scotland and the Nordic countries, folklore and folklore collecting, Irish folk tradition and ethnology, traditional music and song, and Irish manuscripts and poetry as rich sources of Irish tradition.
Contributors: Anna Bale (UCD); Angela Bourke (UCD); Nicholas Carolan (Irish Traditional Music Archive); Síle de Cléir (UL); Kelly Fitzgerald (UCD); Cathal Goan (UCD); Barbara Hillers (Indiana U, Bloomington); Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh (UCD); Margaret A. Mackay (U Edinburgh); Liam Mac Mathúna (UCD); Maureen Murphy (Hofstra U); Éilís Ní Dhuibhne-Almqvist (Folklore of Ireland Society/Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann); Bairbre Ní Fhloinn(UCD); Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (UCD); William Nolan (UCD); Stiofán Ó Cadhla (UCC); Séamás Ó Catháin (UCD); Pádraig Ó Héalaí (NUIG); Anne O’Connor (Editor, Béaloideas); Anne O’Dowd (NMI); Diarmuid Ó Giolláin (U Notre Dame); Éamonn Ó hÓgáin (ind.); Lillis Ó Laoire (NUIG); Tom Sherlock (ind.); Seosamh Watson (UCD); Fionnuala Carson Williams (ind.); and Vincent Woods (writer/broadcaster).
Kelly Fitzgerald is assistant professor in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, UCD. Bairbre Ní Fhloinn is head of Irish folklore, UCD. Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail is associate professor of Modern Irish, UCD. Anne O’Connor is a folklorist, psychotherapist, and editor of Béaloideas.
