{"title":"The postmodern Gaelic storyteller: contemporary contexts and transmission of Irish language narrative in Donegal","authors":"Seanán Mac Aoidh","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2020.1734157","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents an ethnographic overview of the current state of Irish language storytelling in Donegal including its contexts of performance. It examines some notable twentieth century and contemporary initiatives of traditional Irish language storytelling in the Donegal Gaeltacht. There is a particular focus on interpersonal connections that represent the ‘live wires’ of transmission in oral narrative tradition.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/04308778.2020.1734157","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2020.1734157","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FOLKLORE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This article presents an ethnographic overview of the current state of Irish language storytelling in Donegal including its contexts of performance. It examines some notable twentieth century and contemporary initiatives of traditional Irish language storytelling in the Donegal Gaeltacht. There is a particular focus on interpersonal connections that represent the ‘live wires’ of transmission in oral narrative tradition.
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Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies is a journal devoted to the study of all aspects of traditional ways of life in Great Britain and Ireland. The journal publishes original, high quality, peer-reviewed research in the form of unsolicited articles, solicited papers (which are usually selected from those read at the Society"s annual conference) and of members" papers (which are usually short reports of work in progress). Work published in Folk Life may include, for example, papers dealing with the traditional ways of life of other countries and regions, which may be compared to or contrasted with those of Great Britain and Ireland.