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Death Customs in Rural Ireland

Author : Anne Ridge
Publisher : Arlen House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Death Customs in Rural Ireland written by Anne Ridge and published by Arlen House. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceremonial death is the focus of a major rite of passage, leading the individual from the world of the known to that of the unknown. This book describes funerary traditions and superstitions in the midlands, in particular in counties Roscommon, Longford, Westmeath and Offaly and also in adjoining areas of Galway, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo. Folklore collected by James Delaney, a full time collector in the midlands, from the 1950s to the 1980s, is the primary source. Material from earlier folklore collectors has also been used. The book describes Death, Wake, and burial customs, in particular, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Fear of death had a major influence on funerary rites and traditional customs were employed to overcome and control that fear. The role of the community in rites-of incorporation and in transitional rites of passage from the home to the grave is emphasized, while the centrality of the role of women in relation to death rituals is highlighted.

Irish Customs and Rituals

Author : Marion McGarry
Publisher : Orpen Press
ISBN 13 : 178605096X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Irish Customs and Rituals written by Marion McGarry and published by Orpen Press. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what a Brideóg is? What could you cure if you licked a lizard nine times? Why is Whit Sunday the unluckiest day of the year? From the author of The Irish Cottage comes a new book, exploring old Irish customs and beliefs. Chapters focus on the quarter-day festivities that marked the commencement of each season: ‘Spring: Imbolc’; ‘Summer: Bealtaine’; ‘Autumn: Lughnasa’ and ‘Winter: Samhain’, and also major life events – ‘Births, Marriages and Death Customs’ – and general beliefs in ‘Spirituality and Well-Being’ and ‘The Supernatural’. Focusing on the period from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, Irish Customs and Rituals discusses a time during which many of the practices and beliefs in question went into decline. Many of these customs were rooted in residual pre-Christian beliefs that ran parallel to, and in spite of, conventional religion practised in the country. Some customs were so deep-rooted that despite continued disapproval from the Roman Catholic Church they remain with us today. It is wonderful to see so many traditions still with us, as many are worthwhile remembering, commemorating, or even reviving today. Irish Customs and Rituals will appeal to all those with an interest in Irish history, folklore, culture and social history. Marion McGarry is the author of The Irish Cottage: History, Culture and Design (2017). She has a PhD in Architectural History and an MA in History of Art and Design and is currently a lecturer at Galway–Mayo Institute of Technology. She frequently writes articles about Irish social history and customs.

Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland

Author : Katherine Leonard
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784912212
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland written by Katherine Leonard and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text develops a new perspective on Late Bronze Age (LBA) Ireland by identifying and analysing patterns of ritual practice in the archaeological record. The bookends of this study are the introduction of the bronze slashing sword to Ireland at around 1200 BC and the introduction and proliferation of iron technology beginning around 600 BC.

My Father's Wake

Author : Kevin Toolis
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306921456
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book My Father's Wake written by Kevin Toolis and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of death Death is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, death has a louder voice. Each day, along with reports of incoming Atlantic storms, the local radio runs a daily roll call of the recently departed. The islanders go in great numbers, young and old alike, to be with their dead. They keep vigil with the corpse and the bereaved company through the long hours of the night. They dig the grave with their own hands and carry the coffin on their own shoulders. The islanders cherish the dead--and amid the sorrow, they celebrate life, too. In My Father's Wake, acclaimed author and award-winning filmmaker Kevin Toolis unforgettably describes his own father's wake and explores the wider history and significance of this ancient and eternal Irish ritual. Perhaps we, too, can all find a better way to deal with our mortality -- by living and loving as the Irish do.

Burial Rites

Author : Hannah Kent
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316243906
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Burial Rites written by Hannah Kent and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tv=ti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard. Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?

Popular Catholicism in 20th-Century Ireland

Author : Síle de Cléir
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350020583
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Popular Catholicism in 20th-Century Ireland by : Síle de Cléir

Download or read book Popular Catholicism in 20th-Century Ireland written by Síle de Cléir and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the 20th century, Catholics in Ireland spent significant amounts of time engaged in religious activities. This book documents their experience in Limerick city between the 1920s and 1960s, exploring the connections between that experience and the wider culture of an expanding and modernising urban environment. Síle de Cléir discusses topics including ritual activities in many contexts: the church, the home, the school, the neighbourhood and the workplace. The supernatural belief underpinning these activities is also important, along with creative forms of resistance to the high levels of social control exercised by the clergy in this environment. De Cléir uses a combination of in-depth interviews and historical ethnographic sources to reconstruct the day-to-day religious experience of Limerick city people during the period studied. This material is enriched by ideas drawn from anthropological studies of religion, while perspectives from both history and ethnology also help to contextualise the discussion. With its unique focus on everyday experience, and combination of a traditional worldview with the modernising city of Limerick – all set against the backdrop of a newly-independent Ireland - Popular Catholicism in 20th-century Ireland presents a fascinating new perspective on 20th-century Irish social and religious history.

Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650

Author : C. Tait
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403913951
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650 written by C. Tait and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first detailed examination of death in early modern Ireland. It deals with the process of dying, the conduct of funerals, the arrangement of burials, the private and public commemoration of the dead, and ideas about the afterlife. It further considers ways in which the living fashioned ceremonies of death and the reputations of the dead to support their own ends. It will be of interest to those concerned with Irish history and death studies generally.

The Irish Cottage

Author : Marion McGarry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786050120
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Irish Cottage written by Marion McGarry and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and cultural study of the Irish cottage, fully illustrated in color, which explores the subject in a holistic context.

Living Beyond Loss

Author : Froma Walsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393704389
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Living Beyond Loss written by Froma Walsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walsh and McGoldrick have fully revised and expanded this landmark work on the impact of death on the family system.

Literary Drowning

Author : Stephanie Pocock Boeninger
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815654979
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Literary Drowning written by Stephanie Pocock Boeninger and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary depictions of drowning or burial at sea provide fascinating glimpses into the often-conflicted human relationship with memory. For many cultures and religious traditions, properly remembering the dead involves burial, a funeral, and some kind of grave marker. Traditional rituals of memorialization are disturbed by the drowned body, which may remain lost at sea or be washed up unrecognized on a distant shore. The first book of its kind, Literary Drowning explores depictions of the drowned body in twentieth-century Irish and Caribbean postcolonial literature, uncovering a complex transatlantic conversation that reconsiders memory, forgetfulness, and the role that each plays in the making of the postcolonial subject and nation. Faced with fissures in cultural memory, postcolonial writers often identify their situation—and their nation’s—with that of the drowned body. Floating aimlessly without a grave, unmemorialized and perhaps unremembered, the drowned corpse embodies the troubled memory of the postcolonial nation or individual. Boeninger follows a trail of drowned bodies and literary influence from the turn-of-the-century Irish playwright J. M. Synge, through the poems and plays of St. Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, to the lesser-known work of Guyanese British novelist and poet David Dabydeen, and finally to the contemporary Irish plays of Marina Carr. Each author, while borrowing from those who came before, changes the image of the drowned body to reflect different facets of the project of remembering postcolonially.

Managing Death: International Perspectives

Author : Gerry R. Cox
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031055594
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Managing Death: International Perspectives written by Gerry R. Cox and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a huge collection of literature relating to death, grief and bereavement, but one aspect that has received relatively little attention is that of death management practices (by which we mean the various ways of managing the circumstances of the death, ritually acknowledging it and sensitively handling the disposal of the body and so on). While ways of disposing of the dead and grief practices have been thought of as based upon individual responses, grief and bereavement practices can be understood not only by looking at psychological and medical frameworks, but also by examining people as part of a complex structure of social arrangements, institutions, structures, and patterns. By examining the social and institutional structures of various groups around the world, we provide an international framework for a better understanding of the study of dying, death, and bereavement. This book highlights the significance of these matters in an international context, reflecting common themes and important differences. It will highlight common themes across diverse cultures and national settings, while also drawing attention to significant differences. If professionals working in the field of death, grief and bereavement are not aware of such differences, their practice can be insensitive, discriminatory and therefore ineffective, if not actually counterproductive. As such, the book provides an invaluable resource for a wide variety of professionals and students, including medicine and health care; social work; counselling and psychotherapy; chaplaincy and pastoral work; and, of course, those involved in the funeral industry. In addition, students of sociology, psychology and anthropology will find much of interest here in terms of appreciating the diversity of ways in which funerals and other death management practices are managed and integrated into social life.

EBOOK: Palliative Care in Ireland

Author : Julie Ling
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335226256
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Palliative Care in Ireland written by Julie Ling and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the history and development of palliative care services in the Republic of Ireland. Written from a multi-professional perspective the book appeals to anyone with an interest in hospice and palliative care in Ireland. In attempting to explore what is different about Irish palliative care, this book delves into the cultural, religious and social factors particular to modern Ireland, from the historical roots of the Irish palliative care movement through to the publication of the Government’s ‘blueprint’ for the future development of services. Palliative Care In Ireland explores the provision of palliative care services, bereavement, the influence of folklore, holistic care, faith, religion and spirituality, and the important contributions of the voluntary sector. The changing face of Ireland is described and challenges ahead are considered. This is the first book to truly capture the Irish dimension and is essential reading for those in emerging services worldwide where similar challenges are faced and where local and national influences determine the uniqueness of a particular model of service delivery. The book is key reading for students and researchers as well as all those involved in the delivery and management of palliative care services. Contributors: Jide Afolabi, Maria Bailey, Frank Brennan, David Clark, Sinéad Donnelly, Matthew Farrelly, Stephen Higgins, Jacqueline Holmes, Kaye Kealy, Michael Kearney, Ann Keating, Orla Keegan, Christy Kenneally, Philip Larkin, Peter Lawlor, Julie Ling, Anna-Marie Lynch, John McCormack, Regina McQuillan, Michael J. Murphy, Tony O'Brien, Eileen O’Leary, Liam O’Síoráin, Maeve O'Reilly, Patrick J Quinlan, Deirdre Rowe, Siobhan Sheehan, Geraldine Tracey, Onja Van Doorslaer, Eithne Walsh.

Deathpower

Author : Erik W. Davis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231540663
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Deathpower written by Erik W. Davis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically reorients approaches toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactions with local religious practice and, by extension, reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself. Through a vivid study of contemporary Cambodian Buddhist funeral rites, he reveals the powerfully integrative role monks play as they care for the dead and negotiate the interplay of non-Buddhist spirits and formal Buddhist customs. Buddhist monks perform funeral rituals rooted in the embodied practices of Khmer rice farmers and the social hierarchies of Khmer culture. The monks' realization of death underwrites key components of the Cambodian social imagination: the distinction between wild death and celibate life, the forest and the field, and moral and immoral forms of power. By connecting the performative aspects of Buddhist death rituals to Cambodian history and everyday life, Davis undermines the theory that Buddhism and rural belief systems necessarily oppose each other. Instead, he shows Cambodian Buddhism to be a robust tradition with ethical and popular components extending throughout Khmer society.

Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge

Author : Hélène Lecossois
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108862497
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Performance, Modernity and the Plays of J. M. Synge written by Hélène Lecossois and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Revivalist playwright J. M. Synge is often regarded as a realist. Yet what happens when his work is analysed through wider performance studies and situated alongside less familiar historical contexts? By addressing this question, Hélène Lecossois offers new and valuable perspectives on Synge's plays while at the same time engaging with the complexity of his treatment of a range of performance practices – from keening at rural funerals to the performances of 'native villagers' in the entertainment section of International Exhibitions. What emerges from her study is a dramatist acutely aware of the ability of theatre in performance to counteract relentless forward-moving narratives of modernity. Through detailed, contextualized case studies, the book simultaneously makes meaningful contributions to performance studies and opens up theoretical questions of performance relating to the status of the object on stage, the body on stage and theatrical time.

Emigrants and Exiles

Author : Kerby A. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195051872
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Emigrants and Exiles written by Kerby A. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.

The Keeper of the Bees

Author : Eimear Chaomhánach
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788495470
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book The Keeper of the Bees written by Eimear Chaomhánach and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that bees have been around for over 100 million years? Or that the Brehon Laws included judgments about the rightful ownership of swarms? And why Irish beekeepers plant bluebells around their hives? From the perfection of their hexagonal honeycombs to their ordered matriarchal society, bees have been revered for thousands of years. In this beautifully illustrated book, beekeeper's daughter and student of folklore Eimear Chaomhánach weaves folktales about bees with memories of growing up in a beekeeping household, collecting swarms with her father and learning how to harvest honey. With legends about Aristotle and Irish saints and accounts of customs such as 'telling the bees', this is a fascinating look at the beliefs and traditions about bees and beekeeping.

Bride Ales and Penny Weddings

Author : R. A. Houston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191502413
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Bride Ales and Penny Weddings written by R. A. Houston and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the poorest regions of historic Britain had some of its most vibrant festivities. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the peoples of northern England, Lowland Scotland, and Wales used extensive celebrations at events such as marriage, along with reciprocal exchange of gifts, to emote a sense of belonging to their locality. Bride Ales and Penny Weddings looks at regionally distinctive practices of giving and receiving wedding gifts, in order to understand social networks and community attitudes. Examining a wide variety of sources over four centuries, the volume examines contributory weddings, where guests paid for their own entertainment and gave money to the couple, to suggest a new view of the societies of 'middle Britain', and re-interpret social and cultural change across Britain. These regions were not old fashioned, as is commonly assumed, but differently fashioned, possessing social priorities that set them apart both from the south of England and from 'the Celtic fringe'. This volume is about informal communities of people whose aim was maintaining and enhancing social cohesion through sociability and reciprocity. Communities relied on negotiation, compromise, and agreement, to create and re-create consensus around more-or-less shared values, expressed in traditions of hospitality and generosity. Ranging across issues of trust and neighbourliness, recreation and leisure, eating and drinking, order and authority, personal lives and public attitudes, R. A. Houston explores many areas of interest not only to social historians, but also literary scholars of the British Isles.