A folklorist explores the storytelling traditions of a small Irish town where local character anecdotes build community across sectarian divides. More than quai

The 1921 partition of Ireland had huge ramifications for almost all aspects of Irish life and was directly responsible for hundreds of deaths and injuries, with

A brilliant testament to the ethnographer's art, the deeply rooted wisdom of an "ordinary" person, and the complex ways in which folklore figures in everyday li

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