Date:
early 1900s
Type/Formats:
text — collection
Publisher:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Abstract:
This sub-collection consists of five volumes of essays dealing with a wide range of local folk tradition and history, written by schoolchildren in 1937-38, and drawing on information recorded from parents, relatives and neighbours living in the districts of Carna and Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. [ … ]
Creator:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Date:
1945
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text
Contributors:
National Folklore Collection — Irish Folklore Commission
Abstract:
Questionnaire and collected material on the subject of the Irish Famine. Compiled by the Irish Folklore Commission.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Creator:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Dates:
1900-1950 — 1900
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text
Abstract:
This sub-collection consists of a series of selected essays by schoolchildren from participating counties in Munster and Connacht entitled "My Home District", a topographical description of their own locality which they were encouraged to write. [ … ]
Dates:
1937-2009 — 1937
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text
Contributors:
National Folklore Collection — Furey, Áine
Abstract:
The project seeks to build on the earlier work of the Irish Folklore Commission in collecting the Schools’ Survey in 1937-38.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Creator:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (AC)
Dates:
1952-1956 — 1952
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text
Media type:
application/pdf
Abstract:
Questionnaire and collected material on the subject of Tinkers [Travellers] in Ireland, issued by the Irish Folklore Commission.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Creator:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Dates:
1979-1980 — 1979
Type/Formats:
Collection — Sound
Contributor:
National Folklore Collection
Abstract:
Collection of interviews and field recordings made at various locations throughout Dublin.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Creator:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Dates:
1971-09-1972-09 — 1971-09
Type/Formats:
Collection — Sound
Contributor:
National Folklore Collection
Abstract:
Digitally reformatted audio recordings from the song collection of Tom Munnelly.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Creator:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Dates:
1937-1938 — 1937
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text
Contributor:
National Folklore Collection
Abstract:
A collection of primary school copybooks gathered under the direction of the Irish Folklore Commission to bring together information on Irish traditions from across the country.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Creator:
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA)
Date:
1955
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text
Media type:
application/pdf
Abstract:
Questionnaire and collected material on the subject of Irish emigration to America. Compiled by Arnold Schrier in collaboration with Seán Ó Súilleabháin of the Irish Folklore Commission.The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies. [ … ]
Creators:
Milligan, Alice, 1866-1953 — MacManus, Anna, 1866-1902
Dates:
1896-1899 — 1896
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text — Journal
Abstract:
The Shan Van Vocht was a national monthly magazine founded in 1896 by two Belfast women, Alice Milligan and Anna Johnston (later Anna MacManus) following their departure from another journal, the Northern Patriot. The Shan Van Vocht contained literature, poetry, historical articles, and political... [ … ]