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'The value of Evans's work in the field of Irish folk-studies cannot be over-emphasized, and his books and the Folk Museum at Cultra will keep him before us for a very long time.' - Frank Mitchell 'Estyn Evans was a geographer who dared to step outside his discipline and set a headline for historians and others. His message was to emphasize for this country what has become common enough currency in some others: that unrecorded history, as in folk tradition, as in the study of artefacts in the past, as in the study of the effects of environment on the human outlook, were as important a study as the history of elites and documents.' - Douglas Gageby, The Irish Times 'These essays are both inspired and inspirational, the language ringing and rhythmical, with scholarly definitions in easy conjunction with vernacular speech. This is a book of enormous knowledge, of fascinating detail.' - David Hammond, Irish Independent

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EMYR ESTYN EVANS (1905-1989) was born in Shrewsbury, England, of Welsh parentage. He studied under H.J. Fleure at Aberystwyth and in 1928 moved to Queen’s University Belfast, where he founded the Department of Geography and held a chair from 1948 to 1968. He helped to establish the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum at Cultra in 1963, and in 1970 became the first Director of the Institute of Irish Studies. His books include France (1937), Irish Heritage (1942), Mourne Country (1951, rev. 1967), Irish Folk Ways (1957), Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland (1967), and The Personality of Ireland (1973, rev. 1992).

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