Made of the words of the people who live today in the beautiful, embattled countryside of Ulster, Irish Folk History is, in essence, the people's own statement of their past. In story, song, and spontaneous essay, these texts, selected from Passing the Time in Ballymenone, tell of the coming of Christianity, of endless war, of the hardships and delights of rural life.
During a time of trouble, Henry Glassie came into a community of active story-tellers in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, and in this book he sets their voices—their chuckles, whispers, and anger—before us. The words of Hugh Nolan, Michael Boyle, of Peter Flanagan, Hugh Patrick Owens, and their neighbors, echo from the page to present a tale that is at once the story of their tiny community and the story of all of Ireland.
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"A valuable edition of the principal tales and songs from Passing the Time in Ballymenone."—Worldview
"In this setting the words take on a more mysterious quality; we can easily notice the spontaneous invention."—Village Voice
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Henry Glassie is College Professor of Folklore and codirector of the Turkish Studies Program at Indiana University.
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Soiscel Molaise, the early eleventh-century book-shrine of Saint Molaise. In the sixth century, Molaise founded the monastery on Devenish Island in Lower Lough Erne. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Charlie Farmer, Lord Lieutenant, Lough Erne, Maxwell's Ball, Sinn Fein, Hugh O'Donnell, Back Road, Saint Patrick, Mackan Fight, Star of Ballymenone, Black Francis, Ford of Biscuits, Saint Columcille, Cleenish Island, John Brodison, Lisgoole Abbey, Saint Naile, Arney River, Arney Road, Commissioners of Education, Mackan Hill, Peter Monaghan, Sillees River, Arney Bridge, Castle Garden New!
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Soiscel Molaise, the early eleventh-century book-shrine of Saint Molaise. In the sixth century, Molaise founded the monastery on Devenish Island in Lower Lough Erne. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Charlie Farmer, Lord Lieutenant, Lough Erne, Maxwell's Ball, Sinn Fein, Hugh O'Donnell, Back Road, Saint Patrick, Mackan Fight, Star of Ballymenone, Black Francis, Ford of Biscuits, Saint Columcille, Cleenish Island, John Brodison, Lisgoole Abbey, Saint Naile, Arney River, Arney Road, Commissioners of Education, Mackan Hill, Peter Monaghan, Sillees River, Arney Bridge, Castle Garden New!
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