Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Recycling the Dustbin of History Part I Collecting Memory Oral History and Social Memory 000 Irish Folklore Collections 000 Hayes and The Last Invasion of Ireland 000 Ancillary Folk History Sources 000 Part II Folk His…
Delving into the folk history found in Ireland's oral traditions, this work reveals alternate visions of the Irish past and brings into focus the vernacular histories, folk commemorative practices, and negotiations of memory that have gone unnoticed by historians.
"Remembering the Year of the French is a model of historical achievement, moving between the study of historical events - the failed French invasion of the West of Ireland in 1798 - and folkloric representations of those events. Delving into the folk history found in Ireland's r…
"Remembering the Year of the French is a model of historical achievement, moving between the study of historical events - the failed French invasion of the West of Ireland in 1798 - and folkloric representations of those events. Delving into the folk history found in Ireland's r…