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Folk Song: General
1959-1981
This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from a...
Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire
Lewis, Cathy Laura
May 1973
The Irish singer, Darach Ó Catháin [DOC], recorded on 7 May 1973 in Leeds; talks about coming to Leeds in 1960; reference to Brendan Behan and Seán Ó Riada [SOR]; singing and first meeting with th...
Towards a Methodology of the Study of Folk-Life: With Special Reference to the Kosovo Epic Cycle in its Social and Historical Context
Martin, Allan
1970
M.A. study containing chapters on the development of folklore study and the problem posed by this development, the possibility of change in the present study of folklore and an approach to a case stud...
"Papers on Gypsies"
Lloyd Weedon, Trevor
1974
This file contains photocopies of ms. papers by Lloyd Weedon on gypsies. The first paper focusses on the Gypsy Traveller communities of Ireland and Scotland, and includes discussions on Irish Gypsy Tr...
Ibibio Folktale Night: An Introduction to Ibibio Oral Literature
Ikiddeh, Ime
1966
M.A. thesis presenting a general survey of the oral form of Ibibio folktales ( Nigeria), and a study of sample prose and verse tales known by the collector and seen in the context of a single night's ...
Sound Recording, Ireland
Taylor, Barry Roy
8 July 1976
Junior Crehan, recorded in Mullagh (County Clare), plays a number of fiddle tunes, and in between talks about from whom he learned some of them (slow airs, dance music); also talks about a pipe player...
The Dialect of Eaton-by-Tarporley (Cheshire), A Descriptive and Historical Grammar
Anderson, Peter M
1977
Ph.D. thesis which describes the sound system and accidence of the modern Eaton-by-Tarporley dialect and relates this to the system from which it is descended. Chapter 1 demonstrates the interplay bet...
Studies in the Linguistic Geography of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1960
M.A. thesis based on fieldwork carried out during the period October 1958 to November 1959, collecting material for the proposed 'Linguistic Atlas of England'. Not all of the material obtained during ...