Contemporaty accounts and observations recorded, collected and shared by artist/folklorist Michael Fortune on the folklore, customs, practices and memories of the people of Wexford. 4. Introduction by Dr Robert Sinnott, Reflection by North Wexford Historical Society and Observation by Wally O'Neill. -- 5. Welcome by Michael Fortune. -- 7. Placenames and Maps. -- 13. Folklore and the Landscape. -- 17. Bird Folklore and Beliefs. -- 21. Gabhlog/Gabhaileog - A Forked Stick. -- 23. Arrival of the first frogs in Ireland. -- 25. Gugging for Eggs - Easter Tradition from Co. Wexford. -- 29. 'About this Place' - Community Mapping and Recording. -- 34. Soldiers and Skyscrapers. -- 35. Sea-Turf in Bannow Bay. -- 37. The Flagstaff and Gale Days. -- 39. Harrylock Millstones, The Hook. -- 42. Easter Customs and Practices. -- 46. Prahogs, Pleadogs, Pruthogs and Cludogs. -- 48. Simnel Cake or Easter Cake. -- 50. Good Friday and Hair. -- 51. Eviction of 41 families from the slopes of Mount Leinster - 1839. -- 59. Fraughan Sunday. -- 65. Fraughan Picking and Mountain Sunday. -- 68. Jim Byrne - Fraughan Picking and Mountain Memories. -- 71. Starlings or 'Blackstairs'. -- 72. The Ballycanew Wheelbarrow. -- 76. The Polish Pilot and the Spitfire. -- 80. When Worlds Collide. -- 83. Jim Dunne of Outlart - Living on old time. -- 87. Old Time, New Time and "Half New Time". -- 90. Caher-Ruadh's Den. -- 94. Cahir-na-gCapal. -- 97. The Babes in the Woods. -- 103. 1798 Folklore and History. -- 107. 'Bottomless' Eel Holes in Wexford. -- 112. Bullan a Rince- The Dancing Field. -- 113. Singing and Acting in an Infant School in Wexford Town in 1843. -- 115. Faction Fighting in Wexford. -- 119. Buffers and Buffer's Alley. -- 122. Tim Hayes and the Fairies.

ISBN:

9781739840365 (pbk)

Rangúchán Dewey:

LC398.20941885398.209

I dteanga:

English

Réimse:

Wexford (County : Ireland) -- FolkloreWexford (County : Ireland) -- History

BRN:

3812873

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