Gives an introduction to the study of Irish traditional society and of Irish folklore.



This book, entrely in Gaelic, introduces the field and the study of Irish folklore to Irish speakers. While the author's Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity (CUP, 2000) deals with the intellectual problem of the invention of a concept of folklore and its application in an Irish context, An Duchas Agus an Domhan describes in detail the rich traditional culture of the Gaeltacht to which folklorists applied their training and defines the field of folklore as a scholarly...