Irish Folk History: Tales from the North (Revised)

Title: Irish Folk History: Tales from the North (Revised)
Author: Henry Glassie
ISBN: 0812211235
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1982
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 176
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
D: 1699243
Section: History | Europe | Ireland
Publisher Description:

Made of the words of the people who live today in the beautiful, embattled countryside of Ulster, Irish Folk History is, in essence, the people's own statement of their past. In story, song, and spontaneous essay, these texts, selected from Passing the Time in Ballymenone, tell of the coming of Christianity, of endless war, of the hardships and delights of rural life.

During a time of trouble, Henry Glassie came into a community of active story-tellers in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, and in this book he sets their voices--their chuckles, whispers, and anger--before us. The words of Hugh Nolan, Michael Boyle, of Peter Flanagan, Hugh Patrick Owens, and their neighbors, echo from the page to present a tale that is at once the story of their tiny community and the story of all of Ireland.