Browse Items (3 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: debate Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Oral history and facts A debate over the reliability of oral history, in which O'Donovan cites the heterogeneity of County Donegal local stories Tags: debate, empiricism, Folklore, John O'Donovan, letters, nineteenth century, Oral History, ordnance survey, reliability, religion, scientism, tradition "I do not think even Paddy could do much in protecting this lake" "'And as parliament is usually dead slow,' added the Captain, 'it is much to be wished that Paddy, in the meanwhile, would take the affair [of Otter fishing] into his own hands : he is just the boy to do it well.'…" Tags: colonialism, conversation, debate, fishing, Henry Newland, Irish identity, lake, legislation, memoir, nineteenth century, otters, overfishing, upper lake "In nine cases out of ten, the legend is simply an attempt made by an unlettered, but imaginative people, to account for natural appearances by supernatural agency" A description of the power given to unexplained natural phenomena in Irish folklore, and the character of the storytellers Tags: colonialism, conversation, debate, dispute, fishing, Folklore, Henry Newland, Irish identity, memoir, mythology, negative description, nineteenth century, superstition, upper lake Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
