Book
Irish folk ways
Routledge and Paul • London • Published In 1957 • Pages:
By: Evans, E. Estyn (Emyr Estyn).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a general work about Irish peasant culture with historical perspective. The emphasis is on the material culture of farming, replete with descriptions and illustrations. Included are descriptions of settlement pattern, farming practices, vehicles, fishing, fairs and festivals, weddings and wakes, and superstitions. There is a general bibliography at the end.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- Diet
- General tools
- Tillage
- Land use
- Forest products
- Vehicles
- Sociocultural trends
- Rest days and holidays
- Cereal agriculture
- Grounds
- Dairying
- Utensils
- Boats
- Fishing
- Marriage
- Burial practices and funerals
- Outbuildings
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rural Irish
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- British Isles
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1940
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1590-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ireland; Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- NotesAdditional notes
- Emyr Estyn Evans
- Includes bibliogrphical references (p. 307-312) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57002825
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Folklore--Ireland