Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/04308778.2022.2113710
Bob Powell
ABSTRACT As in community settings, intangible narrative evidence may exist within a family’s living memory, awaiting a trigger to inspire investigation. During the 2016 SFLS annual conference in Dublin, marking the 1916 Easter Rising, such a catalyst appeared to the author. A replica newspaper, recounting the ‘Burning of Cork’ revived his interest in a story told to him by his father. On the night of 11 December 1920, horrendous destruction and violence occurred in Cork city, Ireland. In retaliation for attacks against Crown Forces by Irish Volunteers, supporting Irish Independence, the Government sent in an irregular military force commonly known as the ‘Black and Tans’. This paper explores the conflict as experienced and remembered by the author’s family in both oral and written testimonies. Comparison with newspaper reports and other sources attempts to unravel the various threads in a complex story.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/04308778.2022.2113708
Paddy Joe Rickard
ABSTRACT Banger racing is an extreme form of car racing, wherein manoeuvres akin to crashing, ramming and spinning are essential features of the races as well as the overall performances. This study is an ethnologic exploration of the emergent folk culture generated by a small banger racing community located in the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. The racing cars, or bangers, are individually constructed and customized for each race, using an array of car parts found and appropriated by both racers and mechanics. Such distinct social conditions and cultural practices, and the group’s position as a distinctive subgroup within the Irish car enthusiast community, facilitate the creation of its own culture and folklore. While this study outlines aspects of the group’s indigenous vernacular culture, it focuses especially on the ways in which folklore yields distinctive meanings as well as enhancing feelings of both collective and individual identity.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/04308778.2022.2113712
Howard Huws
ABSTRACT Visits to wells to obtain cures for illnesses represent an ancient and widespread practice in Britain and Ireland. The practice of leaving rags, or even whole garments, as tokens of belief or gratitude, or both, is also extensively documented. This paper provides a short summary of the antiquity and distribution of well cults. The distribution in Britain and Ireland is then briefly referenced, after which comes the paper’s main focus, a discussion of the historical evidence for the extent and distribution of practices using fabric in various ways at healing wells in Wales. This is accompanied by a description of the variations in ritual at different locations, and how these change over time, especially in the Post-Reformation period. Finally, the paper gives a list of Welsh wells with which rags are associated, highlighting those linked to particular saints.
{"title":"Crysau’n llawn brychau gerbron / shirts full of stains presented: Welsh rag-wells","authors":"Howard Huws","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2113712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2113712","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Visits to wells to obtain cures for illnesses represent an ancient and widespread practice in Britain and Ireland. The practice of leaving rags, or even whole garments, as tokens of belief or gratitude, or both, is also extensively documented. This paper provides a short summary of the antiquity and distribution of well cults. The distribution in Britain and Ireland is then briefly referenced, after which comes the paper’s main focus, a discussion of the historical evidence for the extent and distribution of practices using fabric in various ways at healing wells in Wales. This is accompanied by a description of the variations in ritual at different locations, and how these change over time, especially in the Post-Reformation period. Finally, the paper gives a list of Welsh wells with which rags are associated, highlighting those linked to particular saints.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"99 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43587607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/04308778.2022.2043645
Arsim Canolli
ABSTRACT Drawing on evidence from participant observation and semi-structured interviews undertaken in the period 2011–2014, this paper explores the social life of café culture in Prishtina, Kosova. It focuses on everyday coffee drinking practices as an embodiment of civility, morality and identity, and provides a view of what constitutes café culture and how social identities are formed and shaped within/around/outside/in relation to cafés. It also highlights how values, norms, and identities are contested, negotiated and also reproduced in regular café-going in Prishtina. The focus shifts to spaces, routines, practices, ordinary events, as well as the constant discussion of café culture. Finally, it discusses how cafés have become social settings where the established codes of hospitality with their inherent demand for reciprocal conviviality are at play.
{"title":"‘All they do is drink coffee:’ notes on café culture in Prishtina, Kosova","authors":"Arsim Canolli","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2043645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2043645","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on evidence from participant observation and semi-structured interviews undertaken in the period 2011–2014, this paper explores the social life of café culture in Prishtina, Kosova. It focuses on everyday coffee drinking practices as an embodiment of civility, morality and identity, and provides a view of what constitutes café culture and how social identities are formed and shaped within/around/outside/in relation to cafés. It also highlights how values, norms, and identities are contested, negotiated and also reproduced in regular café-going in Prishtina. The focus shifts to spaces, routines, practices, ordinary events, as well as the constant discussion of café culture. Finally, it discusses how cafés have become social settings where the established codes of hospitality with their inherent demand for reciprocal conviviality are at play.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"4 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47626175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/04308778.2022.2050588
L. Ballard
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/04308778.2022.2044122
Seán Mac Corraidh
ABSTRACT As ever more languages fall silent because transmission to children ceases, language revitalization has emerged as a worldwide issue today. A relative dearth of documentation exists about how, at an individual level, revitalization leads to the cultural formation of regular new speakers. Using autoethnographic approaches, this paper provides such a personal language biography. It relates significant and critical incidents from my memories of the academic, personal and professional pathways followed in learning Irish as a second language and gaining access to and appreciation of, the unaccompanied style of singing called sean-nós. Self-observation, self-exploration, self-reflection, autobiography and memorization guided the research and writing of the article. Autoethnographic theory provided the means for a greater critical understanding of social and cultural contexts tied to institutions, places and people. Documentation came in the form of photographs, video and audio recordings, personal letters and my own autobiographic writing.
{"title":"“Nach te an rud an Ghaeilge?/Isn’t Irish a warm thing?” Learning Irish language and song: an autoethnographic self-reflection","authors":"Seán Mac Corraidh","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2044122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2044122","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As ever more languages fall silent because transmission to children ceases, language revitalization has emerged as a worldwide issue today. A relative dearth of documentation exists about how, at an individual level, revitalization leads to the cultural formation of regular new speakers. Using autoethnographic approaches, this paper provides such a personal language biography. It relates significant and critical incidents from my memories of the academic, personal and professional pathways followed in learning Irish as a second language and gaining access to and appreciation of, the unaccompanied style of singing called sean-nós. Self-observation, self-exploration, self-reflection, autobiography and memorization guided the research and writing of the article. Autoethnographic theory provided the means for a greater critical understanding of social and cultural contexts tied to institutions, places and people. Documentation came in the form of photographs, video and audio recordings, personal letters and my own autobiographic writing.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"19 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45326827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/04308778.2022.2049119
P. Cowdell
{"title":"Colm Ó Caodháin: an Irish singer and his world","authors":"P. Cowdell","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2049119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2049119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"82 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48894475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/04308778.2022.2043652
R. Power
ABSTRACT This paper concerns rural life in northern Iceland as observed through participation in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some work undertaken subsequently. The paper considers farm life, beliefs and communal music in a monoglot (Icelandic only) society where the memories of people stretched back to the 1890s. The three main characters encountered are Lárus, his wife Pétúrina (Figure 1) and their daughter Didda. Thus it documents and reviews what was essentially women’s work, and especially home-made clothing; traditional diet, its preparation and preservation; and the daily and social contexts in which it was eaten. This forms the first part of a series. Future papers will address the background and social relationships over the time in question, covering also men’s work and travel. It will also include folk traditions and verses sung at times of social gathering for work or entertainment, and their tunes.
{"title":"Feeding the ravens: clothing, food, women’s work and the recollection of change in northern Iceland, 1976-82","authors":"R. Power","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2043652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2043652","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper concerns rural life in northern Iceland as observed through participation in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some work undertaken subsequently. The paper considers farm life, beliefs and communal music in a monoglot (Icelandic only) society where the memories of people stretched back to the 1890s. The three main characters encountered are Lárus, his wife Pétúrina (Figure 1) and their daughter Didda. Thus it documents and reviews what was essentially women’s work, and especially home-made clothing; traditional diet, its preparation and preservation; and the daily and social contexts in which it was eaten. This forms the first part of a series. Future papers will address the background and social relationships over the time in question, covering also men’s work and travel. It will also include folk traditions and verses sung at times of social gathering for work or entertainment, and their tunes.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"41 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48987772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/04308778.2022.2051866
Lillis Ó Laoire
{"title":"Breandán Ó Madagáin 1932–2020","authors":"Lillis Ó Laoire","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2022.2051866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2022.2051866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"96 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43930749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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