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Blúiríní Béaloidis 43 - Indexing Folklore (with Steve Roud)
October 9, 2025 · 1 hr 14 minSteve Roud is a Librarian, folklore scholar and creator of the Roud Folk Song Index, which contains upwards of 750,000 entries to around 45,000 English language folk songs, as found in books, recordings, manuscripts and other sources the…
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Blúiríní Béaloidis 42 - Passing the Time (with Henry Glassie)
May 27, 2025 · 1 hr 32 minVideo recording of this episode is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OcxwmDuUeU&ab_channel=UCD-UniversityCollegeDublin Henry Glassie is College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, and has published…
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Blúiríní Béaloidis 41 - Food in Irish Tradition (with Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire)
April 2, 2025 · 56 minRegarding food in Irish tradition, Kevin Danaher, writing in 1964, noted that "Sometimes we get the impression that Ireland, in ancient times, was a land of plenty, and again we get quite the opposite impression - that our forebears lived…
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Bluiríní Béaloidis 40 - What Is A Folklore Archive
December 17, 2024 · 1 hr 2 minHello a chairde, and welcome to episode 40 of Blúiríní Béaloidis, the podcast from the National Folklore Collection. It would be remiss of me not to commence this episode of the podcast with long, grovelling apologies concerning the…
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Blúiríní Béaloidis 39 - Bees In Tradition (with Tiernan Gaffney)
May 9, 2023 · 60 minBees have been cultivated in Ireland since early times. Of value for their wax and honey, there were also believed to be blessed creatures, as Dáithí Ó hÓgáin writes: "probably because of the use of their wax to make church candles, and…
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Blúiríní Béaloidis 38: Stones Of Strength In Irish Tradition (with David Keohan)
December 6, 2022 · 1 hr 25 minLying in fields and ditches, at the edge of old and overgrown graveyards and in lonesome places all over Ireland rest forgotten echoes of our past. Large and unwieldy stones; blocks of granite and sandstone flags which, used in former…
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Blúiríní Béaloidis 37: Peig Sayers (with Dr. Éilís Ní Dhuibhne & Dr. Pádraig Ó Héalaí)
July 7, 2022 · 1 hr 1 min"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 the way of truth. A person here and a person there will say, maybe, 'Who was that Peig Sayers?'…
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Blúiríní Béaloidis 36: The Travellers (with David Joyce & Áine Furey)
June 24, 2022 · 1 hr 44 minIrish Travellers, known in their own language as Mincéirs or Pavees and in Irish called ‘An Lucht Siúil or, ‘The Walking People’, are a nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland with a distinct history, culture and identity. Historically…
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Blúiríní Béaloidis 35 - The Civil War (with Dr. Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh)
May 24, 2022 · 1 hr 1 minThe Civil War was a schismatic moment in Irish history, and the fault lines it left split families, tore apart communities and turned former comrades in arms against one another in a bitterly divisive period of violence and conflict…
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Blúiríní Béaloidis 34 - The War Of Independence (with Ailbe Van Der Heide)
December 4, 2021 · 1 hr 7 minThe 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 since the signing of the treaty, I joined my colleague at the National Folklore Collection, Ailbe…
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Blúiríní Béaloidis 33 - Death (with David McGowan)
November 19, 2021 · 1 hr 17 minIn 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 director, death-care practitioner and proud Sligo native David McGowan on the topic of death for…
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Bluiríní Béaloidis is the podcast from The National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, and is a platform to explore Irish and wider European folk tradition across an array of subject areas and topics. Host Jonny Dillon hopes this tour through the folklore furrow will appeal to those who wish to learn about the richness and depth of their traditional cultural inheritance; that a knowledge and understanding of our past might inform our present and guide our future.
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