Category: folklore
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Living Traditions with @wildroutesireland ~ Day 3/4
🌈 Líos na Gránisí Stone Circle and Lough Gur with sacredsitesofireland ~ fabulous storytelling & meditation with accompanying rain and rainbow 🌈 Amazing food and trad @ Peppers Bar & Restaurant ~ Feakle 🌈 Lovely seaweed and hedgerow foraging talk with @wildkitchen_lahinch followed by an incredible foraged lunch 🌈 Fascinating harpmaking demo…
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Living Traditions with @wildroutesireland ~ Day 1/2
🌿opening circle with offerings to the sidhe 🌿strawcraft with Melanie Lorian of Cailleach’s Cottage 🌿 @slieveaughtycentre 🌿 Inis Oírr 🌿 Crios weaving demo w/ Mairtín Ó Conghaile @cleasinisoirr 🌿 St Gobnait’s Church 🐝 🌿 wildflower walk with @aedinot 🪻
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Blackthorn Relationships in Fairy Faith
Reidar Christiansen defines fairy faith as a “complex of beliefs connected with the existence on earth of another race side by side with man but normally invisible to him” (1971-1973, 95). In an Irish context, this native vernacular religious system encompasses not only belief in unseen supernatural beings, like fairies…
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Shillelagh: Blackthorn in Action
My blackthorn shillelagh was obtained for the practice of Doyle-style bataireacht, a tradition of two-handed, Irish[1] stick fighting, which was passed through the male lineage of the Doyle family, beginning in the west of Ireland and continuing in the Mi’kmaw territory of Ktaqmkuk[2] after the family’s emigration. With his father’s…
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Garland Sunday | Domhnach Crom Dubh | Bilberry Sunday | Reek Sunday
NFC S 622: 118 “The name Garland Sunday is used generally at the present time and we very often hear, in these districts on the week previous to the last Sunday in July one youth putting the question to another, ‘Are you going to Garlic,’ ‘Garlic’ being a corruption of…
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Saint Swithin’s Day
NFC S 0506: 090 St. Swithin’s Day. St. Swithin’s day falls on the 15th July. It is said if it rains on St. Swithin’s it will rain for forty days. Patricia Miller, Graigue, Adare.Age 12 yrs. From dúchas.ie @nationalfolklorecollection
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Bonefire Night
NFC S 0033: 0048 “The feast of St. John is held on the twenty fourth of June. On the eve of St. John’s feast the people make a bone fire in honour of St. John. The young school boys go around to every house gathering turf and sticks for the…
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Blessed Solstice.
The sun was shining until almost 11 pm in Dublin, leading the way to a nearly full moon.
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Material Culture: Wrack/Seaweed Harvest & Seabird Fowling
Seaweed harvesting and seabird fowling were significant economic and food provision strategies along the coasts and small islands of Ireland and Scotland into the 20th century, which have been disrupted for various reasons. Coastal farmers relied primarily on the sea for survival due to limited arable land, which is supplemented…
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Material Culture: Transhumance – Booley & Shieling
Transhumance “is the seasonal movement of people and livestock from one environmental context to another” and buaile[ing] or the shieling system are forms of “seasonal pastoralism” common in Gaelic countries into the 20th century as a vernacular response to the landscape that in turn informed lifeways and material culture (Costello…
Bridging Appalachia 