Blúiríní Bealoidis 44 - Legends & Literature (with Ailbe van der Heide)
Ailbe van der Heide is Collections Curator at the National Folklore Collection, having joined the staff in 2020, shortly after graduating fr...
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Blúiríní Béaloidis 43 - Indexing Folklore (with Steve Roud)
Steve Roud is a Librarian, folklore scholar and creator of the Roud Folk Song Index, which contains upwards of 750,000 entries to around 45,...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 42 - Passing the Time (with Henry Glassie)
Video recording of this episode is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OcxwmDuUeU&ab_channel=UCD-UniversityCollegeDublin Henry...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 41 - Food in Irish Tradition (with Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire)
Regarding food in Irish tradition, Kevin Danaher, writing in 1964, noted that "Sometimes we get the impression that Ireland, in ancient time...
Bluiríní Béaloidis 40 - What Is A Folklore Archive
Hello a chairde, and welcome to episode 40 of Blúiríní Béaloidis, the podcast from the National Folklore Collection. It would be remiss of m...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 39 - Bees In Tradition (with Tiernan Gaffney)
Bees have been cultivated in Ireland since early times. Of value for their wax and honey, there were also believed to be blessed creatures,...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 38: Stones Of Strength In Irish Tradition (with David Keohan)
Lying in fields and ditches, at the edge of old and overgrown graveyards and in lonesome places all over Ireland rest forgotten echoes of ou...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 37: Peig Sayers (with Dr. Éilís Ní Dhuibhne & Dr. Pádraig Ó Héalaí)
"Long as the day is, night comes, and alas, the night is coming for me too... Someone else will have pastime out of my work when I'm gone on...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 36: The Travellers (with David Joyce & Áine Furey)
Irish Travellers, known in their own language as Mincéirs or Pavees and in Irish called ‘An Lucht Siúil or, ‘The Walking People’, are a noma...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 35 - The Civil War (with Dr. Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh)
The Civil War was a schismatic moment in Irish history, and the fault lines it left split families, tore apart communities and turned former...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 34 - The War Of Independence (with Ailbe Van Der Heide)
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed on the 6th of December 1921, bringing an end to the 1919-1921 Irish War of Independence. To mark 100 years...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 33 - Death (with David McGowan)
In life, there is much which seems uncertain to us. Concerning death however, there can be no doubt. It was an honour to speak with funeral...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 32 - Mushrooms In Tradition
With the coming of the cool wet weather of autumn, life begins to turn inward again . The fields lie fallow and bare, flowers wither, leaves...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 31 - The Púca (with Aidan Harte)
For this episode of Blúiríní I am joined by sculptor Aidan Harte, whose recent work 'The Púca of Ennistymon' was commissioned by Clare count...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 30 - The Stray Sod
There are numerous accounts in tradition of wayfarers who suffer fits of confusion and disorientation while traversing the natural landscape...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 29 - A Folk History Of Ireland's Protestants (with Dr. Deirdre Nuttall)
The Irish Folklore Commission (established in 1935) tasked itself with the documentation of the unwritten customs, beliefs and narratives of...
Blúiriní Bealoidis 28 - Land & Language (with Manchán Magan)
My guest for this edition of Bluiríní Béaloidis is writer and documentary maker Manchán Magan, whose recent book 'Thirty-Two Words For Field...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 27 - The Banshee (with Professor Patricia Lysaght)
The Banshee is a well known supernatural figure in Irish folk tradition. In origin a patron goddess caring for the fortunes of her people, t...
Blúiríní Bealoidis 26 - Seals In Folk Tradition (with Ailbe van der Heide)
Seals have been an integral part of coastal life in Ireland for generations, and as such there exists a large body of tradition, belief and...
Blúiríní Béaloidis 25 - Midsummer
Midsummer has long been observed as a period of jubilant celebration, with communal gatherings at bonfires and prayers, recitations, music,...