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Irish Life and Lore is not only an excellent collection of folktales and legends but it is also packed with the lore and traditions of places and people from the four corners of Ireland. This book contains much new material which was never published before and which is drawn from the manuscript archive of the former Irish Folklore Commission, now the Department of Irish Folklore at University College, Dublin and also from the living Irish folk tradition of today. Irish Life and Lore includes authentic folk material culled from nineteenth-century writers such as Kennedy and Crofton Croker and also from the author's own extensive field collections made in various parts of the country.

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Séamas Ó Catháin is a lecturer in the Department of Irish Folklore at University College, Dublin. He has travelled widely in all the Scandinavian countries and collected folklore among the Lapps in Norway. He is also an assistant editor of 'Béaloideas', the Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society. He has written and presented over sixty radio programmes on folklore and frequently contributes to Irish radio and television as a spokesman on folklore matters. He is co-author of 'The Living Landscape' (1975) and 'Sísceálta ó Thír Chonaill/Fairy Legends from Donegal' (1977) and is the author of 'The Bedside Book of Irish Folklore' published in 1980.

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