Scribes and Storytellers: The Ethnographic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Stiofán Ó Cadhla

doi:10.1002/9781444328066.ch24

Scribes and Storytellers: The Ethnographic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Stiofán Ó Cadhla

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The two-volume Companion to Irish Literature encompasses the full breadth of Ireland's literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present day. The article looks at the story of folklore or ethnology in Ireland as protean, plural as much of the discourse that the discipline has collected or studied, Victorian Era, scribes and storytellers, ethnographic imagination in nineteenth-century Ireland generally, the Victorian notion of folklore, idea of neo-tradition, invention of official nationalism and the influence of evolutionary discourse generally.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Title of host publication	A Companion to Irish Literature 1
Editors	Julia M. Wright
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Chapter	24
Pages	393-410
Number of pages	18
Volume	1
ISBN (Print)	9781405188098
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444328066.ch24
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

Folklore
Ethnology
Seanchas
Victorian notion of folklore, neo-tradition, invention of official nationalism - of evolutionary discourse
Aisling Mac Con Glinne, jocose survey of early monastic life - non-modern literary genre
Classical origins to a range of discourses - august western academic convention, belies a bias
Early Irish term coimcne, "emphasizing sharing ofcultural knowledge and importance of knowledge shared"
Fairies, leprechauns, and peasants - checkered roles of the Ascendancy
Folklore, ethnology or anthropology - exclusively modern phenomena, not foolproof
Keating's work, recasting as one of the ur-stories of Irish national history
Ó Danachair's seminal essay in Ulster Folklife - work of Beiner, Briody, Ó Cadhla
Story of folklore or ethnology in Ireland - protean, plural as much of the discourse that the discipline has collected or studied
Victorian Era - scribes and storytellers - ethnographic imagination in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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