Bibliography — Classification Index

A version of Bodach an Chóta Lachtna, from Manx Museum MS 431C. Text and English translation.

Examines material from the Carmichael-Watson papers which relates to the Mac Mhuirich bardic family.

Scottish Gaelic folktale featuring the motif of the Devil’s contract, recorded from Donald Alasdair Johnson of Ardmore, South Uist in 1971. With English translation.

A collection of forty-nine songs from Manx Museum MS 450A; diplomatic texts with English translation.

A collection of nine songs from Manx Museum MS 263A; diplomatic texts with English translation.

Discusses the ball seirce, or ‘love spot’, a magical birthmark borne by Cearbhall.

Discusses the relationship between the various literary and folk versions of this folktale type (represented in Irish tradition by the stories of Labhraidh Loingseach and of King Eochaid).

Investigates the validity of oral sources for the study of history, using the folklore of Tiree as a case-study.

Recorded from a Rannafast speaker in 1952; with synopsis in English and commentary.

Suggests that the original function of lullabies in Ireland and Scotland was to protect the sleeping child from being abducted by the sí.

[1.] Analogues of the banners in Germanic and other cultures; [2.] Banners in Irish tradition outside the fian; [3.] Banners associated with the fian; [4.] The banner quatrains in later tradition (incl. names of banners, e.g. Dealbh Ghréine, Fulang Doghra, Aoincheannach, Dún Naomhtha, Lámh Dhearg, Sguab Ghábhaidh, Lóch Luinneach); [5.] Form and composition of the BDL poem [see [6.]]; [6.] Edition (Poem beg. Naoinear a chuadhm[ar] fá choill, ed. from NLS MS Adv. 72.1.37 (Dean of Lismore’s Bk); with Engl transl. and notes). Figs.

From the MSS. collection of Neg Beg Hom Ruy (Edward Faragher of Cregneash, 1831-1908); with English translation.

Tale, An Giolla Géaglonnach (Aa-Th 650), transcribed from narration of Micheál Ó Fíne (1877–1959) of Park, Spiddal. Some comments on style; comparisons drawn with earlier tales.

Presents a selection of words, phrases and verse from a manuscript diary (1858-1864) by the Rev. Dr Archibald Clerk of Kilmallie; includes biographical information on Dr Clerk.

Recorded 1978 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. With English translation and commentary.

On Fenian ballads (duain na Féinne) in modern Scottish Gaelic oral tradition.

Repr. in Dùthchas nan Gàidheal, pp. 184-210.

In Appendix: A catalogue of oral sources for the history of Diarmaid and Gráinne.

On the Gaelic (particularly Manx) background of this Scottish ballad.

Discusses examples of miscommunication between Irish and English taken from Irish folklore material.

Taken down near Causeway, Co. Kerry, about 1904. Text from Irish Folklore Collection, MS 492.

Includes the Scottish Gaelic folktale Domhnall Ruadh agus an claban, recorded from Donald John MacKinnon, of Barra, in 1972 (with English translation).

On the figure of the Cailleach Bhéarra in the Irish and Scottish Gaelic folk tradition.

A story taken down by the author from his mother Éilís Ní Iarfhlaithe (†1956) in 1945, about ‘a well of new milk’, which healed the sick.

Outlines the history of Finn Cycle folklore collecting in Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and North America.

Represented in Ireland by the story of the Lady of Inchiquin.

Continued from ZCP 42 (1987), 219-241.

Contains 15 texts with phonetic transcription recorded in situ from storytellers Peig Sayers and Máire Ruiséal. Complements Oral literature from Dunquin, County Kerry, ed. by H. Wagner and N. Mac Congail, Belfast 1983.

Continues in ZCP 44 (1991), 200-235.

On a sixteenth-century literary analogue in crosántacht form of the folk tale motif of the messenger who forgets his message or confuses it.

Discusses versions of a folk tale about Irish speakers who employ a linguistic trick on an English monoglot opponent in order to win a hand of cards.

An edition of the ‘Ballinahown Collection of folklore’, collected 1937-1938 (as part of Schools’ Folklore Scheme), by pupils of the Ballynahown primary school, Co. Westmeath, under the direction of teacher Tomás S. Ó hAinlighe. Includes: §8. Irish words and phrases in use; §9. Placenames. With notes on sources and commentary.

Suggests that a direct line of written sources connects the riddles in Tochmarc Ailbe with those collected in Islay in 1860 by Hector MacLean (published in J. F. Campbell’s Popular tales of the West Highlands, Vol. III).

Story, Brian na Diúgadh from Co. Mayo, which combines the motif of The Clever Peasant Girl (AT 875) with the legend of the Slaying of the Aged (= Wisdom of Hidden Old Man Saves Kingdom, AT 981), edited with English translation from Irish Folklore Collection, MS 1269.

Discusses the process of composition of six 18th and 19th century stave-anecdotes.

Examines poems and stories relating to various cailleachan of the Scottish Gaelic folk tradition. Includes an excursus on the etymology of caillech.

Irish and Scottish Gaelic versions of a story, recorded 1961 in Teach Mór, Co. Galway and 1973 in Sollas, North Uist, respectively; with English translation.

Discusses the origin, transmission and distribution of this early eighteenth-century ballad.

Rev. by
Anja Gunderloch, in CMCS 29 (Summer, 1995), pp. 65-66.
A. J. Hughes, in ÉtC 31 (1995), pp. 309-310.
Richard J. Moll, in Arthuriana 5/1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 100-102.

31 narratives covering the period from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s; mostly in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, with some in English. Ir. and ScG texts standardised but retaining dialectal features; with English translations.

Rev. by
Matthias Egeler, in ZCP 65 (2018), pp. 141-142.

Rev. by
Kelly Fitzgerald, in Béaloideas 72 (2004), pp. 285–287.

Rev. by
Hilda Ellis Davidson, in Béaloideas 56 (1988), pp. 271-273.

Rev. by
A. J. Hughes, in Ainm 2 (1987), pp. 150-152.
L. P. Ó Murchú, in Éigse 24 (1990), pp. 171-175.
Diarmuid Ó Sé, in Celtica 17 (1985), pp. 159-162.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 41 (1986), pp. 333-334.
James Stewart, in Béaloideas 53 (1985), pp. 311-316.

Rev. by
Stiofán Ó Cadhla, in Béaloideas 79 (2011), pp. 180-182.

Index of 276 Irish language songs from East Galway in the archives of the Irish Folklore Commission (in 1968).

Rev. by
Áine Bhreathnach, in Éigse 16/2 (1975), pp. 168.
Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh, in StH 16 (1976), pp. 200-2001.

Rev. by
Máirtín Mac Conmara, in Studies 67, nº 267 (Autumn, 1978), pp. 248-249.
Caitlín Uí Éigeartaigh, in StH 16 (1976), pp. 200-2001.

Edition of an early 18th c. folk-tale entitled Síabhradh sí agus innéirí Mhic na Míchomhairle, based on UCD Morris 8 (and Morris 7 where this is incomplete). Réamhrá, Téacs, Modh eagarthóireachta, Canúint na lámhscríbhinne, Malairtí, Foclóir. In Aguisín: Leagan béil den scéal [from MS UCC T. 37].

Presents a study of a folk-tale recorded from Teelin storyteller S. Ó Casaide (1854–1942) which was not published in L. Mühlhausen’s Zehn irische Volkserzählungen aus Süd-Donegal (1939). With an analysis of background, versions, and motifs; includes an edition of L. M.'s own transcript of the tale, with Engl. transl.

Rev. by
Ailbhe Nic Giolla Chomhaill, in Béascna 12 (2022), pp. 143-148.
Lillis Ó Laoire, in ZCP 69 (2022), pp. 271-275.