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Irish Customs and Beliefs - Softcover

Danaher, Kevin

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9781856354424: Irish Customs and Beliefs

Synopsis

A book of stories and beliefs of all kinds of things to do with old Ireland: Highwaymen and travelling people, the Irish whiteboys, lost and hidden treasures. Beliefs associated with birds, insects, animals, plants, bushes, trees and stones. Dwarfs and fabulous water monsters, ghosts, witches, castles and drowned cities.

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About the Author

Kevin Danaher was born in Athea County Limerick in 1915 and educated at University College Dublin and the universities of Berlin and Leipzig. After service as a captain in the Irish army during the Emergency, he became a full-time ethnologist with the Irish Folklore Commission (later the Department of Irish Folklore in University College Dublin). He was as fine a writer as he was a folklorist and his many works include The Year in Ireland (1972) and Irish Country Households (1975, reissued 1999). His research provided the basis for the Folk Park at Bunratty, county Limerick.

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