Stiofán Ó Cadhla

Gebundenes Buch

Inventing Irish Folklore

Revivals, Survivals, and Superstitions

Beschreibung

Folklore's age of innocence, heralded by the conclusion of an extended period of centenaries, including those of the state, the Folklore of Ireland Society (2027), and the Irish Folklore Commission (2035), is coming to an end. A retrospect of the keywords and worlds of Irish folklore, béaloideas in Irish, is timely and, given their far-reaching ramifications, crucial. This book moves from English to Irish, zero folklore to folklore, Anglophone Irish folklore to béaloideas, back to no folklore again. The lead up to the relatively shallow revolutionary period following the invention of the term is counterbalanced with examples from the deeper time of ancestral inventiveness. While written in English the keynote is that the Irish language life-world, in one way or another, is its main burden or gravitas. There is no avoiding the fact, attested by the monumental archive of the historical commission, that the language of much of the lore and the lore of much of the language are prejudicially partitioned. This is the starting point of a genealogy traced through a remarkable series of chronological coincidences and clashes, in and out of lexicology, etymology, antiquarianism, history, folklore, ethnology, and anthropology, in short the science of life writ large. Ireland is a Gaelic Galápagos, there are few places in the world where the manifold roots of the scientific and cultural revolution go deeper. It epitomizes coloniality worldwide but its exemplarity is sunk deep in a collusive decolonialism aligned with manifest history. From the stone age to the phone age a protohistoric cant for framing the long concatenation of invasive manoeuvres on the island was curated in layers of chronology and chronicle that reached a crescendo in the nineteenth century. By the dawn of the twentieth it was charismatically ignited as a re-enlightenment or rebirth. To begin to separate wheat from chaff imagine three things, first the Hibernophone seanchas of the autochthonous life-world, second Anglophone Irish antiquarianism, folklore, and anthropology, and third béaloideas, often, though by no means always, Anglophone Irish folklore Gaelicized, quasi-learned or otherwise. This book is essential reading for anyone at all interested in Ireland.

Autor

Born in Rinn Ó gCuanach, Co Waterford, growing up there and in Cork, Stiofán Ó Cadhla is a scholar and poet with many accolades. Published early in the pioneering journal Innti, he is a long-serving lecturer and former Head of Department in Roinn an Bhéaloidis. Along with a prolific list of scholarly works he published three collections of poetry in Irish. His first book Cá bhFuil Éire? Guth an Ghaisce i bPrós Sheáin Uí Ríordáin  [Where is Ireland? The Heroic Voice in the Prose of Seán Ó Riordain], was nominated for an Irish Times Literature Award, awarded Duais Chuimhneacháin Phiarais Bhéaslaí (An tOireachtas) in 1996 and named Book of the Year by Cumann Merriman in 1999. The Holy Well Tradition was published in 2002 and, opening the present discussion, Civilizing Ireland: Ordnance Survey 1824-1842: Ethnography, Cartography, Translation in 2007. An tSlat Féithleoige: Ealaíona an Dúchais 1800-2000 [The Honeysuckle Vine: Indigenous Arts 1800-2000] from 2011 received first prize in the 2010 at Oireachtas na Gaeilge. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cork University Press
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782050940
• ISBN-10: 1782050949
• Artikelnr.: 75874610