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The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland
Author: William Alan McCutcheon
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 635
ISBN-13: 0838631258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major study of the growth and decline of transport and industry in Ulster, this extremely detailed and comprehensive book throws new light on the infrastructure of corn grinding, spade forging, paper making, and other industries, and examines the mechanics of early road, bridge, and canal construction, more than 850 photographs and charts are contained in this volume.
Irish English, volume 1 - Northern Ireland
Author: Karen P. Corrigan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010-01-15
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0748634304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An overview of English as it is spoken in the Northern dialect regions of Ireland.
Everyday Culture in Europe
Author: Máiréad Nic Craith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1317138465
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book discusses the history and contemporary practice of studying cultures 'at home', by examining Europe's regional or 'small' ethnologies of the past, present and future. With the rise of nationalism and independence in Europe, ethnologies have often played a major role in the nation-building process. The contributors to this book offer case studies of ethnologies as methodologies, showing how they can address key questions concerning everyday life in Europe. They also explore issues of European integration and the transnational dimension of culture in Europe today, and examine how regional ethnologies can play a crucial part in forming a wider 'European ethnology' as local participants have experience of combining identities within larger regions or nations.
Ulster Folklife
Locating Irish Folklore
Author: Diarmuid Ó Giolláin
Publisher: Cork University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781859181690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first of its kind, Irish Folklore is a key text that uses Nordic ethnography methods and Latin American culture theory to explain how differing groups legitimise their own identities by identifying with notions drawn from folklore.
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The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970
Author: Mícheál Briody
Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Published: 2008-06-16
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9522228109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann), under-funded and at great personal cost to its staff, assembled one of the world’s largest folklore collections. This study draws on the extensive government files on the Commission in the National Archives of Ireland and on a wide variety of other primary and secondary sources, in order to recount and assess the work and achievement of this world-famous institute. The cultural, linguistic, political and ideological factors that had a bearing on the establishment and making permanent of the Commission and that impinged on many aspects of its work are here elucidated. The genesis of the Commission is traced and the vision and mission of its Honorary Director, Séamus Ó Duilearga (James Hamilton Delargy), is outlined. The negotiations that preceded the setting up of the Commission in 1935 as well as protracted efforts from 1940 to 1970 to place it on a permanent foundation are recounted and examined at length. All the various collecting programmes and other activities of the Commission are described in detail and many aspects of its work are assessed and, in some cases, reassessed. This study also deals with the working methods and conditions of employment of the Commission’s field and Head Office staff as well with Séamus Ó Duilearga’s direction of the Commission.
Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life
Author: Jack Santino
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780870498138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →However, the essays in this volume also suggest that there is something ironic and unsettling about the immense popularity of a holiday whose main images are of death, evil, and the grotesque. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life is a unique contribution that questions our concepts of religiosity and spirituality while contributing to our understanding of Halloween as a rich and diverse reflection of our society's past, present, and future identity.
Language and Dialect Contact in Ireland
Author: Maguire Warren Maguire
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-09-21
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1474452930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Warren Maguire examines Mid-Ulster English as a key case of new dialect formation, considering the roles of language shift and dialect contact in its phonological development. He explores the different processes which led to the development of MUE through contact between dialects of English, Scots and Irish and examines the history of a wide range of consonantal and vocalic features. In addition to determining the phonological origins of MUE, Maguire shows us why the dialect developed in the way that it did and considers what the phonology of the dialect can tell us about the nature of contact between the input language varieties. In doing so, he demonstrates the kinds of analysis and techniques that can be used to explain the development of extra-territorial varieties of English and colonial dialects in complex situations of contact, and shows that Irish English provides a useful testing-ground for models of new dialect formation.As one of the oldest 'new' extra-territorial varieties of English, one which developed in a context of language and dialect contact, MUE provides an excellent opportunity to study how new dialects develop in situations of settlement colonisation.
