From our homes to our houses of government, from our schoolyards to our stadia, from our galleries to our gable walls, folklore is not only preserved but continues to be reimagined in all aspects of everyday life in Ireland. In the twenty-first century, the traditions of Irish folklore are engaged in a constant process of regeneration, where the old and the new, the oral, the textual and the visual intermingle. However, while the first life of Irish folklore has amassed a vast literature, what has attracted less attention is its second life the variety of ways in which traditions have been...
From our homes to our houses of government, from our schoolyards to our stadia, from our galleries to our gable walls, folklore is not only preserv...