New Crops, Old Fields
Subtitle: Reimagining Irish Folklore
Publisher: Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9783034319126
Subjects: Folklore, ireland
Description: In the twenty-first century, the rich traditions of Irish folklore are engaged in a constant process of regeneration, where the old and the new, the oral, the textual and the visual intermingle. This volume examines the variety of ways in which folklore traditions are re-purposed and reinvented in contemporary Ireland.