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culture8
language and languages8
english language - dialects7
communities5
community life5
folk music4
history3
literature and folklore3
manners and customs3
archive administration2

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Anderson, Peter M1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
Crehan, Junior (1908-1998)1
Ikiddeh, Ime1
Lewis, Cathy Laura1
Lloyd Weedon, Trevor1
Martin, Allan1
O Cathain, Darach1
Taylor, Barry Roy1

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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...

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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...

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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...

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"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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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