| Description |
633 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-625) and index. |
| Contents |
1. 'Tell us a story' -- 2. Colloquies of the ancients, and modern views or controversies -- 3. Powerful and dangerous or humble and innocent : storytellers as seen by Gaels and Galls -- 4. Echoes of past virtues, heard or imagined by antiquaries, surveyors and philologists -- 5. Travellers and talkative guides -- 6. Protofolklorists and imitators, nationalists and peasants, in the first half of the nineteenth century -- 7. Nineteenth-century Irish novelists and traditional storytelling -- 8. Irish country life, folklore and nationalism in the second half of the nineteenth century -- 9. Noble peasants and mythical islanders, or 'tons of useless folklore'? -- 10. Folklorists meet storytellers or those who remember them -- 11. Irish traditional storytelling in the twentieth century : how much do we know -- 12. Stories about storytelling, storytellers in stories -- 13. 'That was all true enough' -- 14. 'Now to conclude and finish'. |
| Subject |
Storytelling -- Ireland -- History.
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Storytelling. |
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Ireland. |
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History. |
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Storytellers -- Ireland.
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Storytellers. |
| ISBN |
185182622X |
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