DIARMUID Ó GIOLLÁIN, LOCATING IRISH FOLKLORE: TRADITION, MODERNITY, IDENTITY, CORK: CORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000, 256 P.
DIARMUID Ó GIOLLÁIN, LOCATING IRISH FOLKLORE: TRADITION, MODERNITY, IDENTITY, CORK: CORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000, 256 P.

Summary/Abstract: Published in 2000, as part of Cork University’s critical research of folklore and ethnology, Diarmuid Ó Giolláin’s much-anticipated study introduces readers to Irish folklore and a wide range of theoretical concepts associated with it. Ó Giolláin takes on the challenging task of locating folklore, a term so accessible and readily used in the public space, yet so vague when judged against scholarly standards. Acknowledging the versatility and generosity of this term, the author does not attempt any conceptual framing but sets out to contextualise Irish folklore in a comparative study that weighs its value in a broader European and global background. His comparative analyses challenge the traditional geo-historical approach and invite readers to consider folklore beyond the confines of a territory and to look at it as an overlap of social, political, cultural, economic and symbolic dimensions.

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