| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 167 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Irish literature, history, and culture
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Irish literature, history, and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-164) and index. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Contents |
The Irish Christmas -- The personality of the season: rhyming, pranking, and bonfires -- Harvest -- The Feast of Autumn -- Oiche Shamhana, Night of the Spirits -- Tie the nine knots: games, divination, and belief -- Gender construction and cultural hegemony in Northern Ireland. |
| Summary |
In Northern Ireland, Halloween is such a major celebration that it is often called the Irish Christmas. A day of family reunions, meals, and fun, Halloween brings people of all ages together with rhyming, storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires. Perhaps most important, it has become a day that transcends the social conflict found in this often troubled nation. Through the extensive use of interviews, The Hallowed Eve offers a fascinating look at the various customs, both past and present, that mark the celebration of the holiday. Looking through the lenses of gender, ethnicity, and religious affiliation, Jack Santino examines how the traditions exist in a nonthreatening, celebratory way to provide a model of how life could be in Northern Ireland. Halloween, concludes Santino, is a marriage of death and life, a joining of cultural opposites: indoor and outdoor, domesticity and wildness, female and male, young and old. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Halloween -- Northern Ireland -- History.
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Halloween. |
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Northern Ireland. |
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History. |
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Folklore -- Northern Ireland.
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Folklore. |
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Northern Ireland -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Santino, Jack. Hallowed eve. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1998 (DLC) 98036767 (OCoLC)39615290 |
| ISBN |
9780813149943 electronic book |
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0813149940 electronic book |
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0813120810 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780813120812 cloth alkaline paper |
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