Aug
22
2005
Memoirs of a Folklorist
ISBN: 1856352064
Author: BrÃd Mahon
DDC: 398.092
As the subtitle says this book is mainly concerned with the life of BrÃd Mahon while she worked for the Irish Folklore Commission. In it Mahon lists many of the tales that the commission collected, as well as the lives of the people who collected the stories, customs and songs.
It is a very readable book, I finished it in one sitting on a three hour train journey, and while never spectacular it is very enjoyable for anyone who might have an interest in folklore. In this book Mahon covers almost every topic from Raftery the poet to the Famine, from the oldest folktale in the world to Georgian Dublin. In the years she spent at the Folklore Commission she met with many famous names; Kavanagh, Tolkien and Disney for example.
Sean O’Suilleabhain and the Folklore Commission | UCD’s folklore dept. | Amazon’s list of books by Mahon
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While Green Grass Grows
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Aug
22
2005
Luna Nina Says
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Aug
22
2005
In my oh so brief round up of the weekend I never mentioned the GAA action. Poor Laois were well beaten by Armagh in the football, but the match of the weekend was definitely the hurling[1] between Galway and Kilkenny.
for context and excitement and sheer wonder, Croke Park yesterday was the place to be. The centre of the universe. There were just under 40,000 there but in years to come at least five times that amount will claim to have breathed the same northside air through these 70 minutes of hurling
What we saw was a Galway team who were humiliated to the tune of a 19-point margin by Kilkenny last summer come to Croke Park on a big day and drive five goals past Kilkenny. The last time that was done to Kilkenny was 33 years ago (an 80-minute game and they managed a draw) and it’s something which one could go a hurling lifetime without witnessing.
The final score was Galway 5-18 Kilkenny 4-18 [2] and seeing as we were cheering on Galway it was an even better result. I’m just wondering how many heart attacks fans out there had, considering the way the game was played.
The rebels or the tribesmen, who’ll win the final?
Linknotes:
- GAA - the fastest field game in the world, probably ↩
- that’s 5 goals and 18 points or 33 points, to 4 goals and 18 points, or 30 points ↩
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Aug
22
2005
Your word is FUCK. You like to come across as rude
and rebellious, and often you do. You also are
intelligent and maybe surprisingly sensitive,
though God help anyone who said that in front
of your friends.
Which Swear (Curse) Word Are You?
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Via Bugger (otherwise known as Anne) 
In case you were wondering there were no posts over the weekend [1] because I was away in the west at herself’s sister’s wedding.
What else? I watched the Liverpool match[2] watched some shojumping from Hickstead, and a teeny-tiny bit of the Grand Prix from Turkey, and then I got on a train.
Linknotes:
- nor comments or any sort of webland-happenings ↩
- they were pretty bad. I mean 1 nil, against a ten-man Sunderland? I ask you. Still better my than my team who lost
1 nil to Man Utd ↩
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