New Crops, Old Fields
Reimagining Irish Folklore
Summary
This volume is concerned with those moments of cultural creation that occupy the space between the «first life» and «second life» of folklore and, in particular, the ways in which folk traditions are reinvented. Featuring essays from both authorities in the field and emerging voices, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the rich diversity of folk culture, as a practice and as an area of study, in contemporary Ireland.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction (Eamon Byers / Conor Caldwell)
- 1 Folklore: A Zombie Category? (Diarmuid ó Giolláin)
- 2 Legends and Oral History in Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass (Manuel Cadeddu)
- 3 Humanizing History: Storytelling and Subjectivity in the Works of Frank Delaney (Anjili Babbar)
- 4 Who Knows Where the Time Goes: Songs of the Past and Stories of the Present in Kate Thompson’s The New Policeman (Rebecca Long)
- 5 Valse Shilly Shally: An Irish Expression of the Viennese Waltz (Maria Byrne)
- 6 Musical Interpretations of Fenian Literature by Contemporary Irish Composers (Angela Horgan Goff)
- 7 Revisiting Samhain: Two Directions on a Theme (Daithí Kearney)
- 8 From Page to Stage and Beyond: (Re)imagining Cré na Cille (Eilís Ní Dhúill)
- 9 Mother Ireland: Folklore and the Fractured Family in Irish-Themed Cinema (Jack Casey)
- 10 Discovering and Celebrating Ireland’s Tree Folklore (Ben Simon)
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Series index
MARIA BYRNE
Valse Shilly Shally: An Irish Expression of the Viennese Waltz
| Figure 1: | Samuel Lover, ‘Sally’. |
| Figure 2: | Trad., ‘Tá an Coileach ag Fógairt an Lae’. |
| Figure 3: | William Balfe, ‘Killarney’. |
| Figure 4: | Cover of the sheet music for ‘Valse Shilly Shally’. Reproduced with permission from Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann, Irish Traditional Music Archive. |
DAITHÍ KEARNEY
Revisiting Samhain: Two Directions on a Theme
We would like to thank the New Crops, Old Fields team, both old and new, for their help in bringing this publication to fruition and shaping the work of the group: Audrey Robitaillié, Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn, Joanne Burns, Marjan Shokouhi, Angela Horgan Goff, Pádraig McGonagle and Sheila Rooney. The conference from which this volume of essays originates was generously hosted by the School of Creative Arts at Queen’s University Belfast (now part of the School of Arts, English and Languages), and diligently facilitated by Mrs Audrey Smith and Mrs Iris Mateer. The editors also gratefully acknowledge support obtained through the QUB Student Led Initiatives fund and the help of Foras na Gaeilge. ← ix | x →
EAMON BYERS AND CONOR CALDWELL
In Dermot Healy’s final novel Long Time, No See (2011), the narrator describes the assiduous and almost oneiric labour involved in building a wall with stones he has salvaged from the shore and the ruins of a monk’s chamber:
Some of the stones I used had come inland in storms. But today I started to haul from an old ruin up on the bank overlooking the sea. I got an awful bad feeling as I pulled the rocks out of the ruin. I had to tell myself over and over that they were going back into another wall. The ruin was supposed to have been a henhouse way back, but it was the strongest-built henhouse I ever came across. There were massive stones in her. I could have been demolishing a small church, and sometimes I thought I was.
A beehive hut it might have been.
A monk’s chamber.
I could even feel the sense of balance of the man who had built it.
Details
- Pages
- X, 190
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781787072480
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781787072497
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781787072503
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034319126
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2017 (February)
- Keywords
- Folklore Contemporary Ireland
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2017. X, 190 pp., 7 b/w ill.
