Cold Iron

Treasures of the National Folklore Collection/Seoda as Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann

Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh Séamas Ó Catháin Ríonach uí Ógáin Seosamh Watson editors. With a foreword by Dr T.K. Whitaker

Treasures of the National Folklore Collection/Seoda as Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann is primarily visual, drawing on the diverse collections found within the arc…

Islanders and Water-Dwellers

Patricia Lysaght, Séamas Ó Catháin & Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, editors

The Proceedings of the Celtic-Nordic-Baltic Folklore Symposium held at University College Dublin in June 1996, this book contains twenty-seven articles which ex…

Miraculous plenty

Irish religious folktales and legends

Seán Ó Súilleabháin editor

For over fifteen hundred years, Ireland has been predominantly Christian. Religion has been a continuous force in various aspects of Irish life. As one might ex…

The Otherworld

Music & song from Irish tradition

Ríonach uí Ógáin & Tom Sherlock editors

Belief in the existence of a parallel world and in otherworldly phenomena has long been established in Irish tradition and facets of such belief continue to be …

Clár Amhrán Mhaigh Cuilinn

Ciarán Ó Con Cheanainn

The rich repository of song in Irish in the National Folklore Collection is represented in this publication of song from the barony of Maigh Cuilinn, Co. Galway…