An Dúchas Agus an Domhan

Gives an introduction to the study of Irish traditional society and of Irish folklore.

This book, entrely in Gaelic, introduces the field and the study of Irish folklore to Irish speakers. While the author s Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity (CUP, 2000) deals with the intellectual problem of the invention of a concept of folklore and its application in an Irish context, An D chas Agus an Domhan describes in detail the rich traditional culture of the Gaeltacht to which folklorists applied their training and defines the field of folklore as a scholarly discourse. It is the first such book written primarily for an Irish readership and one of the very few in any language that considers both the nature of traditional society and the discourse of folklore together. It gives a thematic treatment of vernacular worlds--concentrating on time , place and community --and of their changing relationships with the widening horizons of the state, modernity, and globalization. It is based on the ninteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century evidence of folklore, anthropology, (auto)biographical literature, and history.

Cad is b aloideas ann agus c seasann s idir an d chas agus an domhan? Tuigtear de ghn th gur rud d chasach agus gur ghn th bhachtach de chuid na socha traidisi nta an b aloideas. Ach bh caidreamh riamh ag an socha thraidisi nta leis an saol lasmuigh: n raibh s neamhsple ch ar an st t, ar fh rsa eacnam la n isi nta agus idirn isi nta, ar thiarna tal n, ar an eaglais, ar an gcult r l annta, ar id -eola ochta polaiti la. Tugann an leabhar seo cur s os ar an gcult r saibhir traidisi nta ar chuir scol ir b aloidis suim ann agus tugann s sainmh ni ar ghort sin an bh aloidis mar dhiosc rsa l inn. Pl ann s go speisialta le tr th ama ar leithligh: am , it agus pobal , agus tr chtann s orthu i gcomhth acs na socha traidisi nta, leathn an st it, teacht chun cinn na nua-aoise agus g ar an domhandaithe. s ideann s fianaise n 19 , 20 agus 21 haois, agus n mb aloideas, n antraipeola ocht, (dh r)bheathaisn is Gaeltachta agus n stair. Is an ch ad bhunleabhar ar l ann an bh aloidis as Gaeilge .