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Non-Fiction
ARTICLES ON VARIOUS TOPICS
‘Prayers of the Faithful’. Irish Times, 7 July 2007.“Saibhreas nó Daibhreas? An Scríbhneoir Dátheangach” in Aisling Ní Dhonnchadha, ed. An Prós Comhaimseartha. Léachtaí Cholm Cille XXXVI. (Maigh Nuad: An Sagart, 2006: 139–154).‘Learning Language Without Words’. Irish Times, 5 Aug. 2005.‘Why Would Anyone Write in Irish?’ in Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, ed., ‘Who Needs Irish?’: Reflections on the Importance of the Irish Language Today (Dublin: Veritas Publications, 2004).‘Family Values: The Sheehy Skeffington Papers in the National Library of Ireland’. History Ireland, (Spring 2000).
‘The Irish’, In Ake Daun and Soren Jansson, edd. Europeans. Essays on Culture and Identity. Lund, Nordic Academic Press, 1999: 47-65.‘Reader, I married Him’, in From Newman to New Woman. UCD Women Remember. Ed Anne Macdona, Dublin, New Island, 2001: 175-79.‘Narrative Techniques in The Mai’, in The Theatre of Marina Carr, edd. Cathy Leeney and Anna McMullan, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2003: 65-74.‘Transcending Genre: Sebastian Barry’s Juvenile Fiction’, in Out of History: Essays on the Writings of Sebastian Barry. Ed. Christina Hunt Mahony, Dublin, Carysfort Press, 2006: 25-36.
BOOKS
Voices on the Wind: Women Poets of the Celtic Twilight (Dublin: New Island Books, 1995).
WB Yeats, Works and Days. Ed, with James Quin and Ciara McDonnell. Dublin, National Library, 2006.
ARTICLES ON FOLKLORE TOPICS
‘The Brave Tailor’. Sinsear, the Folklore Journal, (1980): 84–91.‘Ex Corde: At 1186 in Irish tradition’. Béaloideas, (1980): 86–134.‘Old English Metre and Children’s Street Rhymes’. Sinsear, the Folklore Journal, (1982): 76–82.‘Dublin Modern Legends: An Intermediate Type-List’. Béaloideas, (1983): 55–69.‘”The Land of Cokaygne”’: A Middle English Source for Irish Food Historians’. Ulster Folklife, (1988).‘”The Loving Wife”: Synge’s Use of Popular Material in The Shadow of the Glen’. Béaloideas, (1990): 141–180‘Legends of the Supernatural in Anglo-Irish Literature’. Béaloideas, 60–1. No. 1992–3 (1992): 145–150. ‘The Old Woman as Hare: Structure and Meaning in an Irish Legend’. Folklore, Vol. 104 (1993).‘The Irish’ in Åke Daun and Sören Jansson, eds. Europeans: Essays on Culture and Identity (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 1999: 47–66).‘The Cow that Ate the Pedlar in Kerry and Wyoming’. Béaloideas, (1999), 125–134.Introduction to Séamas Ó Catháin, ed., Northern Lights, Following Folklore in North-Western Europe, Essays in Honour of Bo Almqvist (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2001).‘Fer in the North Contree: With His Whole Heart Revisited’ in Séamas Ó Catháin, ed, Northern Lights (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2001: 202–214).Translator of ‘The Story of the Little White Goat’ as told by Máire Ruiséal, Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Volume IV: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions. (New York: New York University Press, 2002), 1219–1232. ‘Women and Irish Narrative Tradition’. Supplement to the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Volumes IV and V (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002).
‘”They made me tea and gave me a lift home”: Urban Folklore Collecting 1979–1980’. Béaloideas, (2006), 63–84.
BOOKS ON FOLKLORE TOPICS With Séamas Ó Cátháin, eds., Viking Ale, Studies on Folklore Contacts between the Northern and Western Worlds (presented to Bo Almqvist on the occasion of his 60th birthday) (Aberystwyth: Boethius Press, 1991).